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Anonymous
12 years ago
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Game is grayed out

Game is grayed out in ORIGIN. Play button is grayed out. If i right click, there is no option to repair.

Online I get this message

We're sorry, it looks like your game didn't start properly.

Please follow the steps below and try start the game after each one:

  • Restart Origin
  • Repair the game in Origin
  • Restart your computer
  • blusky01's avatar
    blusky01
    12 years ago

    Well, 24 hours later and a complete uninstall and reinstall of not only the game but also all the DLC up till now... and the game icon now works.

    Icon is no longer greyed out.  Still stumped as to why the patch screwed it up.

    I appreciate the advice on a CHKDSK but I am convinced it was an issue totally related to the patch.

    For the record, I have rarely had any issues with this game or really any other game I play on my PC.  I was one of the lucky ones that did not experience much of anything regarding the game breaking stuff that litters the forums.  The only issues I have had were related to micro stutter with my 690 GTX running SLI and a hyperthreading stutter with my core i7.  I turned off SLI and disabled hyperthreading for several months as the drivers caught up to the game and now even those features are operating fine.

    So, in closing, I guess the reinstall works.  Irritating to say the least... but it did work.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    i hate origin, why cant the games start the same way they did in the old days !

  • @Dculve2012 Mine is doing this too. Tried uninstalling the game, and origin. Even deleted the Orgin files in Users. That all worked but only for one startup, the very next day it was back to being greyed out. Any permanent fix for this 7 years later?
  • EA_Atic's avatar
    EA_Atic
    Icon for DICE Team rankDICE Team
    5 years ago
    I'm closing this thread to stop it from being necroed.

    If you have any issues with Battlefield 4 please make a new topic about the issues you are having and what kind of steps you have tried to solve them.

    /Atic

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