I uninstalled a few months ago and haven't played since. Too many performance issues. The problem described above was never really solved. The only thing that seemed to solve the issue was moving the game to my SSD, but that wasn't a long term fix. The SSD on my laptop was barely large enough to hold the game and I needed that space for some other vital software. I checked to make sure my HDD was performing correctly and every test said it was running just fine.
The problem of "Your game failed to launch" has just recurred to me after it seemed to have been resolved with the latest update. However this time 2042 would not launch even after many repeated attempts. I got in chat with EA support and he said that they are seeing a lot of this problem and EA does not have a fix for it yet. He gave me a link and said I should clear my EA Launcher cache. https://help.ea.com/en-gb/help/faq/clear-cache-to-fix-problems-with-your-games/ . It worked at least for now and it's simple to do. I'm starting the game now no problem. So try it. It has directions for all platforms.
