Re: PC Black screen on launch of game

as someone who has done every fix in the book including a fresh install of windows your fix will not work for the majority of people this is happening to. from what i and many others have gathered is this is an ez anti cheat and origin problem. if you run an m2 ez anti cheat thinks its a hack unless you unplug every other harddrive so it has to accept that the m2 is a drive and not a hack. 

Hey all!

Update 3 has been released this morning for Battlefield 2042. Can you please check if you're still experiencing the issue?

Didn't have any issues before this update, now i do. Black screen on launch.
But since i am on win11 and an outdated graphics-card i of course expect no help. Will just bury this game and forget i paid for it. Played every single BF game since 1942 and this has broken my heart more than hardline.

Same for me , didn't had this issue till now after update.

I am using EA Desktop, black screen and from time to time i can see mouse stuck in the middle of screen.

Didn't have any issues before this update, now i do. Black screen on launch.

Just keeping you updated. Game worked fine last time i updated the drivers. This time it won't start the second update goes live, so i am still saying it is not on my end this problem exists and i hope they revert or fix whatever changes has been made that causes this. 

Also getting black screen on game launch after today's update. The console does come up when I press `.  Worked find yesterday.

I tried to launch from both Origin and EA launch and both have the same issue.

All My other games start flawlessly from origin, please ea get this fixed asap as a loyal customer it can not be My job to try 20 work arounds to Even get the game to start, and My pc is not the problem either ryzen 3600 32 GB ram nvidia 3070

Switched over to Origin and have been going through the workarounds to no success. 

Edit: Repairing in Origin worked. I am in the game. 

Still experiencing this issue.  Can EA please just tell us what the issue is? 

i am still having this issue

Hi all - don't know if this will help anyone. Updated BF2042 to patch 3 this evening via the EA app, launched and black screen after splash screen - surprise, surprise.

Checked this thread and tried a few things - clear cache of EA app, set BF to administrator etc - but still black screen on boot. In desperation I installed origin onto my pc. Logged into origin and it auto checked the BF2042 files. However something was seemingly missing as after the file integrity check by origin it downloaded something for BF (small d.load, maybe a couple of mb - took around a minute and defo not update 3 again).

I then successfully booted into BF via origin and I got in without issue? All very odd as I have obvs not deleted or changed anything on my pc or the BF install since I last played, other than the EA app installing patch 3.

I've read the thread and understand that loads of you have tried this but I thought I'd post up just for visibility.

Hope you all get it sorted 👍

Fish

Still doesn't work for me after Update 3 !

Are you guys going to fix this or we are going to be ignored again and again ?

It's seems like you guys don't care at all about ours problems it's been almost 1 month and we are not able to play the game at all.

Fix your game or just don't release it next time cause it's seems like the game is not complete at all i can understand that there is many bug but it's not normal that the game doesn't launch after almost 1 month and 3 Updates.

Come on EA fix it quickly

Thank you.

@EA_Leeuwupdated and tried to launch game still in black screen.  Uninstall and reinstall still black screen

Hey all, 

Thanks for getting back to us. 

For the people who are playing the game via Origin and are still experiencing the black screen on launch issue; can you please check if temporary switching the language of the game works?

• Open Origin
• Login with the correct account
• Right-click on the BF2042 game tile
• Choose Game Properties (or your local language equivalent)
• Click on the last tab; Advanced Launch Options (or your local language equivalent)
• Choose any of the other languages that you see and click Save
• The game is now 'repairing something
• Check if you can launch the game as normal
• Revert the language change and see if you can still launch the game

And again, a new update and the black screen again. Wonder if 3 new reinstalls will make it work this time. You got issues!

I can do it, but play on Ea Desk App - But  I'll do it.

French fixed my game and worked in english when I got back. Scary otherwise, I know nada in french 🙂

Changeing the language to Spanish solved the problem, then i change back to English and it works fine now i can play the game. 

My game now works but with bad perf . with this config i have it should be 200fps lock easy , and i am strugling with 60-70 fps on ultra ,even on low details .