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Wholesome_Seal6
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Battlelog launches Origin version of BF3 and not Steam

So basically, I own BF3 on origin and have done for a while, but I now want to start playing on Steam and logging my hours on there. But whenever I click play on Steam and it takes me to Battlelog, b...
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    ragnarok013
    5 years ago
    @Wholesome_Seal69 wrote:

    So basically, I own BF3 on origin and have done for a while, but I now want to start playing on Steam and logging my hours on there. But whenever I click play on Steam and it takes me to Battlelog, battlelog just launches the game through origin and uses the older origin version of BF3 and not that new Battilefield 3 game with the Steam thing at the bottom of it... meaning it doesn't log my hours or playtime on Steam... is there a resolution???

    @Wholesome_Seal69 I have both the Origin and Steam version of BF3 and experienced this issue myself. What I had to do was uninstall BF3 so it wasn't installed in Origin or in Steam. Then I did the following:

    Close Origin and all Origin processes in the task manager
    Hold the Windows key + R.
    In the command box that opens, type %ProgramData%/Origin then click OK.
    Delete all the files and folders inside it except for LocalContent
    Inside of the LocalContent folder delete the Battlefield 3 folder.
    I restarted my PC for good measure

    Opened Steam and installed Battlefield 3 and then launched BF3 and it worked for me.

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5 years ago
@Wholesome_Seal69 wrote:

So basically, I own BF3 on origin and have done for a while, but I now want to start playing on Steam and logging my hours on there. But whenever I click play on Steam and it takes me to Battlelog, battlelog just launches the game through origin and uses the older origin version of BF3 and not that new Battilefield 3 game with the Steam thing at the bottom of it... meaning it doesn't log my hours or playtime on Steam... is there a resolution???

@Wholesome_Seal69 I have both the Origin and Steam version of BF3 and experienced this issue myself. What I had to do was uninstall BF3 so it wasn't installed in Origin or in Steam. Then I did the following:

Close Origin and all Origin processes in the task manager
Hold the Windows key + R.
In the command box that opens, type %ProgramData%/Origin then click OK.
Delete all the files and folders inside it except for LocalContent
Inside of the LocalContent folder delete the Battlefield 3 folder.
I restarted my PC for good measure

Opened Steam and installed Battlefield 3 and then launched BF3 and it worked for me.

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