Unable to launch battlefield 3
For 3 days now I am unable to launch battlefield 3 in anyway shape or form. I have tried Reinstalling windows Reinstalling different graphics card drivers Reinstalling and downgrading Origin cli...
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@Oleese Have you tried doing a clean boot (safe mode) with networking and see if it'll start there? See this page for instructions http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-clean-boot-your-pc/.
I'm running windows 7 as such safe mode will always disable resources that relate to direct X or direct 3D this means that games like bf3 will not work under safe mode at all. Nevertheless I have tried your solution and the same result occurs
Thank you for trying
As of 15:32 UTC today the problem appears to be resolved.
The solution is still ambiguous as I have no way of duplicating the problem but the issue would appear to relate toward game activation and Origin versions.
What I did:
- Uninstall Origin
- Download Origin version 9.11.2.10120 – 403336 and install it
- Find bf3.exe and right click to properties>>compatibility and select run in compatibility mode windows XP service pack 3
- Open the newly installed version of Origin and login
- Choose Go offline in Origin menu
- Choose battlefield 3 and press play
- A window should load regarding game activation asking for your EA login details (it appears to be a dedicated program not a web browser) Enter the details and submit
**After doing this the campaign mode began to load.**
- Closed bf3
- I then disabled compatibility mode on bf3.exe
- Chose battlefield 3 and pressed play again
**After doing this the campaign mode began to load.**
- Closed bf3
- Chose go online on Origin, at this point origin wants to update itself to the latest version and as such allowed it
- Selected bf3 from origin and pressed play
- Web browser loads to battlelog but tells me that my password and email are wrong so I log in manually
- Tested online modes for which there appear to be no problems
It could just be coincidental that at that point of trying to load bf3 that someone at EA solved my problem on their end but as there is no reply from anyone in support within my inbox I would doubt this very much.
We can however take from this that the issue most likely relates toward game activation though the game was already activated before this issue occurred something somewhere was clearly not working on EA’s side.
Unfortunately I did not check in task manager where that activation window process was loaded from but upon searching my hard drive I found an activation program called activation.exe in the folder path:
C:\Program Files(x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 3\Core
Clicking activation.exe does not do anything at this point in time but if someone else is having the same issue and they can’t get hold of an early version of Origin perhaps they can start with activation.exe.
Also note that despite bf3 working Origin is still having problems logging me into battlelog as such I must manually log into battlelog even though I'm logged into Origin, this is not a problem but it suggests again that something may be wrong on EA's side.
