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Miltos95's avatar
11 years ago
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BF4 Origin Game Time expired/requires activation

Hello, i went and got the Origin Game Time version of the game, downloaded it fine but i didn't launch the game with my account. Today, a friend of mine came by and logged in with his account and ...
  • Miltos95's avatar
    11 years ago

    Finally managed to fix it, here's what i did.

    I used a virtual machine to get access to the origin game time because it wouldn't allow me to participate. Probably because my friend got the "promo" on my pc.

    Alright, i used the VMWare Player to run a "second" pc. Installed an OS and shared the original installation of the BF4 (which in my case is under "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games") to the Network so i could easily access it via the "second" PC (AKA Virtual Machine).
    Why i shared it to the network? I did it so i don't have to download the game from the beginning.

    Booted up the virtual machine, installed origin and set the library from it's default location to the one i shared to the network.

    In this case it was by default under "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\" so i changed it to "\\MILTOS95\Origin Games".

    Yes, this is the library that i have my games downloaded and installed on my main OS i couldn't play! It required a restart to take effect.

    After that, i just clicked "Download" to install BF4 on my Virtual Machine. It didn't have to download anything because the game had the files already there.

    It installed perfectly.

    Now here's the tricky part.

    After highlighting the game it still was saying that i had to play once for the origin game timer to begin.

    I clicked "Play", the browser popped up and went ahead and tried to launch the Campaign.

    It launched but and error occured, no DX10 was supported via the Virtual Machine's "GPU" and that's totally fine. I did what i had to do.
    The game LAUNCHED for a second and the origin game timer BEGAN.

    I shut down the Virtual Machine and went on my "Host" PC to try and launch BF4.
    Guess what? It did launch perfectly on the machine it was giving me the error that was expired and required a key, i did play the campaign on the PC for a couple of hours too!

    I can finally play!

    Let's sum it up, i solved the problem by installing the game via another pc that no one else had activated his BF4 Origin Game Time on this machine.

    It probably doesn't matter if it's a Virtual Machine or a Real PC, all i had to do is to launch the game and let itself register and start the timer. It doesn't matter if it gives you an error if you're trying via a Virtual Machine, if you can get the game to start and appear on the taskbar, the timer has probably began on you account and can play on any PC (not sure for that last one on "any" pc, it should allow you though).

    Here's a screenshot of the timers on both Battlelog and Origin.

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