BF1 won’t launch through Steam/EA app

Hi everyone,

I’m having a weird issue with Battlefield 1 and I’m hoping someone here has a solution.

I’m playing the Steam version on Windows 11 Pro (25H2). When I press Play in Steam, the EA app opens like normal, but then I get this message:

“An error on our end caused the launch to fail. Try again a little later.”

The game itself never opens. Steam shows it as running for a few seconds, then it just stops.

The strange part is that BF1 was working fine earlier on 10 April. I played through the campaign. Later that same day, I was going to play with a friend, and from that point on the game refused to launch.

Things I’ve already tried:

- Restarting my PC

- Verifying/repairing the game files

- Reinstalling the game

- Logging out of and back into the EA app

- Clearing the EA app cache

- Checking my internet connection

- Updating drivers/system software

- Doing a clean boot based on the EA troubleshooting steps

- Deleting and reinstalling the anti-cheat

I’ve also looked around online and tried the solutions I could find, but none of them have helped.

None of that made any difference.

A few extra details:

- I don’t get any extra error code, only that message

- Battlefield 4, which I also launch through Steam -> EA app, still works fine

- My friend can launch and play BF1 without any problems

- I’m in the EU region

So right now this seems to be affecting only BF1.

If anyone has run into this before or knows anything else I can try, I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks.