Unable to launch BF2042

Hi Kent: I have gone into the game exe. file and made it so I run the game as administrator, and did the same with the anti-cheat exe. When I did that I could see the anti-cheat launch but still the game is no go. Made no difference. But I will uninstall and reinstall the anti-cheat and see what happens. 

@Confuzzo 

I appreciate it! Let me know if it's still not letting you launch the game after that. 

Hi Kent: Still a no go. I'm pretty sure the anti-cheat is working. What do you think about uninstalling it and starting from scratch. I also did Microsoft Nettech log I was going to send you but the log is like 250mb. I looked through it but I don't know what I'm looking at.

David

Hi Kent: Here's a link to 35 sec. video on my YT channel of my desktop and what happens when I launch the game. Maybe it will help. Looks like it's doing everything except opening the game. For awhile it was even giving me the black screen before the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gixnpYZh7g

Two video anomalies though. It, for some reason does not show me clicking the anti-cheat prompt. And the blue screen is not on my screen, only in the recording. Probably has something to do with the game booting up. 

@Confuzzo 

Thanks for sharing this!

Do you know if Easy Anti-Cheat might be installed on a different drive than BF2042? I've seen some cases where this can happen because EAC was installed through a different game beforehand. 

If they are on separate drives, try moving them to make sure they're saved on the same drive and see if that makes a difference. Let me know if that makes any difference for you. Thanks! 

Hi Kent: Interesting. I think I've seen that sort of thing before also. ............ mmmmm didn't think of that.

Wish me luck ....... I'm heading in!

Hi Kent: Was I suppose to get a product code when I downloaded the game?

Hi Kent: Never mind about all that other stuff. You might find this interesting. So I look and see and I have EasyAntiCheat in the same file as the BF2042 game which is in my D drive. But I also have EayAntiCheat installed in my C drive. So I go to services and see the service running for it are for the C drive EasyAntiCheat exe. So I uninstall the EasyAntiCheat in my C drive. Then I launch the game again and I get this screen. Says the EasyAntiCheat is  not installed. It doesn't see the EAC in the same file as the game is in. I think I'll try to uninstall the EAC in the D drive and then reinstalled it. Or perhaps just reboot my machine and see if that might works. Sometimes that works you know

David

Hi Kent: I just went through the install log and it clearly shows the EAC being installed in the same drive as the game. However, I likewise found EAC in my C drive, as I mentioned. If I do a repair on EAC what it does is uninstall it and then reinstall in on the C drive without any prompt as to what drive you want to use. So when I launch the game and the EAC prompt comes up it clearly shows it is starting EAC from my D drive. But then the game never launches. But if I uninstall EAC from my C drive and launch the game it comes up with that error message saying that EAC is not installed. So the launch is looking for EAC in the wrong drive, yes?

Maybe a reinstall of the game from scratch is needed and see what happens.

Hey @Confuzzo, 

Thank you for running through all that and sharing these updates. 

A clean reinstall of the game might be the best bet, like you suggested. If you're able to give that a shot please let me know how it goes. Thanks!