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Anonymous
12 years ago

Battlefield 4 will not update, "DOWNLOAD FAILED"

Ever since the the most recent update, Origin gives me a download failed error when it turns on and tries to update the game. When I cancel the error and try again it either fails again or Origin stops responding all together. It has been weeks now that I cant play the game because I cant update properly. The error says this "Windows blocked our attempt to downlod game content....When prompted, grant permission witin the User Account control pop-up" The grant permissions message never appears, and I have already allowed origin through my firewall and attempted to install the update with the firewall disabled entirely. 

I have windows 64 ultimate, I have updated to the latest version of Origin and reinstalled origin several times. 

Any help would be greatly apprieciated, and please dont tell me to try and reboot.....

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    tq ragequit1223 !!

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    @ragequit1223 wrote:

    I have found a solution to this problem for me, and I hope it helps you.

    I opened my task manager and went under processes and noticed about 5-6 instances of ActivationUI.exe running, I ended process on all of these and immediately would install the update, I hope this helps!

    This ^

    Had the issue with March 3, 2015 update.

    Only one instance of ActivationUI.exe running.  Ended the process and update succeeded.

    Thank you ragequit

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    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    I am having the same problem with the uypdate. When I went to Task Manager though and clicked on processes, I could not find one ActivationUI.exe running. I am still stuck and can't play. Does anyone else have another solution?

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    pascalvdv
    10 years ago

    Same here, nothing works and I can't play B3 or B4 for month's now!

    Gues I have to go back and buy Cal of Duty, maybe that will work. Grrrr.....

    Or does anyone have a suggestion that works?

    Playing on a Windows Vista unit.

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