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Thanks for the feedback. I uses to launch "Origin" and then start the game from there. Put a shortcut to BF1 on the desktop, gave it Administrator privileges, (run as Admin) and restart the computer. Now when I launch the game, I find servers, and the quick start takes me into the game mode I select AND IT HAS PLAYERS! OK, to be fair, I've tried this before with no luck at all, so maybe Dice fixed something and I didn't.
It's worth a shot for those who are still having issues. Create the shortcut from your Drive Letter:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 1\bf1.exe and then right-click and Run As Admin. You may get prompted when you launch the game for permissions and just click YES.
Don't know if that will work for everyone but it appears to have fixed it for me this time.
Good luck.
Well, thanks for the suggestion. But, I don't think this is a Windows issue. Generally, I don't have problems with game startup. You really shouldn't need admin level privileges to run the BF1.exe command. The issue is EA/Dice's way of how the servers distribute players across the server network. It makes no sense to see servers with 64 of 64 with queues of players waiting to play. When there are servers running the same maps and game modes with 1 or 2 people "sitting" on the server hoping other players will join to make a game. And, it doesn't really matter how you use the filters.