I own the game on Steam and have it linked with my EA account. When I press play, on both Steam and the EA Launcher, it pops up with "Preparing Game" then doesn't launch. I've tried reinstalling Battlefield, the EA launcher, and EA Anticheat to no avail. I've also tried validating the files, manually installing the dev certificates, and running both the game and launcher as administrator.
I've tried doing these steps as well: https://forums.ea.com/discussions/battlefield-2042-technical-issues-en/battlefield-2042-launch-issue/7024514
Have you ever had a different Steam account linked to your EA account? EA only allows one Steam account to be linked to an EA account, for the lifetime of that EA account.
In other words, if Steam account Bravo was linked to EA account Whiskey. Then Bravo is permanently linked to Whiskey and no other Steam account can ever be linked to Whiskey, forever.
I'm having the exact same issue too, tried the same things. I tried contacting support but they said they can't fix anything that has to do with this issue and I need to make a forum post. Insane.
Well, since support wasn't any help, I used AI to help scan my EA App logs. I figured out how to fix it. I am not sure which one fixed it, but it was one of the following or a mix:
The AI broke down my entire log folder and told me there was a cloud sync error with my settings folder, the anti cheat also was having issues syncing with the game, and that the EA app was having trouble connecting with steam to successfully launch the game. Once I did all of those, it opened flawlessly.
Well don't chat with the helpless desk they are no help by any means. ok Try this type cmd in the search box (if you have windows 11) run as administrator type in "sfc /scannow" (just copy and paste that in without quotes and hit enter) it will say this will take some time (it depends on the speed of your machine the most would be 5 minutes if that mine takes about less than a minuet.
Well don't chat with the helpless desk they are no help by any means. ok Try this type cmd in the search box (if you have windows 11) run as administrator type in "sfc /scannow" (just copy and paste that in without quotes and hit enter) it will say this will take some time (it depends on the speed of your machine the most would be 5 minutes if that mine takes about less than a minute.
This worked thank you! I think it was the old settings files preventing it from launching. I spent like 6 hours on this yesterday so you're a godsend.
