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Seasoned Traveler

3 months ago

STEAM - Connection Failed Error 1:86001S:66003S:468882297O:0B

I cannot connect to Battlefield 6 servers via Steam. Getting consistent error: Connection Failed - Error Code: 1:86001S:66003S:468882297O:0B Platform: Steam (purchased on Steam) EA Account: Ver...

New Novice

3 months ago

I purchased the game through Steam.
I'm playing on Laptop, Alienware AREA 51mr2, RTX2080, 32GB RAM, i9-10900k, SSD (2TB)
Internet is working fine.
* TPM 2.0 enabled
* Secure Boot enabled
* All dirvers are updated.
* BIOS is updated
* Steam and EA App accounts are linked
* EA App and Steam are both updated (made sure of that)

EA App is working, I can play FIFA through the EA App (it connects to EA servers)
Internet is working fine.

[Edit]: As soon as I installed the game on launch day, i was able to succesfully sign in, I went to the firing range to test the gunplay, then I quit as I had somewhere to go. Once I came back to the game, I was never able to make it past the "connecting to online Services" Screen. I've tried logging in at different times, to no luck.
I have tried:

Verify Game files through Steam (all correctly verified, multiple itmes)
unplugging USBs, replugging USBs,
Run other games thorough EA App, they run fine.
using WIfi/Ethernet, switch between them
I'm not using a VPN
[Edit] - Enabling/Disabling Steam Overlay
[Edit] Rebooting Laptop - still cant connect
[Edit] Reset modem / mesh - No good
[Edit] Turning on/off EA overlay (Game does not even show in EA App, as it is from steam, but hey, cant hurt to try - No luck)
[Edit] Adding the game to the antivirus (Kaspersky) exclusions. -Did not work
[Edit] Runing the .exe as administrator - No luck
[Edit] Running the Anticheat exe as administrator -Nope
[Edit] Second gues my life choices - Made it worse.
[Edit] Clearing cache of both Steam and EA App - Nay.
[Edit] Turning off overlay from NVIDIA - Nein

Is anyone else having these problems? IF YOU DO, please post it here, that way we can increase the chances of EA team spotting this issue/thread.

naeledro

Newcomer

3 months ago

I don't know if this will help but I had the same error and followed the same steps as you did. Additionally, if I went to Steam downloads I had a download pending for BF6 of around 500B that was stuck with the message "Game not released". To fix that, I went into Steam properties for the game, DLC tab and unchecked "Battlefield Multiplayer Marker" and "Battlefield Multiplayer HD Marker". That did not fix it but at least I had no more pending downloads.

After that I did a bunch of system reboots until finally while the game was booting up one time I used Alt+Tab and the Windows Defender Firewall dialog popped up; the one where you can allow an app to use Public or Private networks on your PC. Up until that point I did not get that dialog even though I was constantly tabbing out to check stuff in Chrome while the game was running, so I am not sure what caused it to finally show up. After allowing everything, the game was able to reach the servers. If that does not show up for you, you can try to manually allow the BF6 app in the Windows Defender Firewall and see if that solves your issue.

AndthornDebu
New Novice
3 months ago
Hey man, I really appreciate your detailed walkthrough!
Today I went back from vacations to my home, and it seems I was able to play normally here. It might have been an issue with the ISP provider, but can't confirm for sure as the internet was working perfectly normal.
Sadly, this issue probably persists with the other people in this thread. Unfortunately I cannot confirm what caused this.
SoulReaper850
Seasoned Rookie
3 months ago
did that still doesn't work