BFV not starting (LSX Server? Port 3216)
I'm sometimes able to launch BFV once after a fresh windows/origin/bfv. But after 1 reboot it always breaks.
When I click play, I see bfv.exe process for a few seconds in task manager and then get back into Origin or EA Desktop (I tried both).
I have tried a lot of suggestions and nothing worked, apart from complete reinstall (and even then I need some luck).
Attached you find the EA Desktop logfile (Line 1-29 is EA Desktop starting. After Line 29 I clicked PLAY for BFV)
The following error is interesting:
ERROR (Origin::SDK::Lsx::Server::listenTcp) [Legacy] [ERROR] LSX server failed to listen to port 3216
It's failing to listen on port 3216. This port is not in use by any process and I gave full firewall access to EADesktop in windows firewall (Its also running as admin).
You can also see that there is some license issue, this logfile is the same each time I try to execute BFV.
I monitored bfv.exe with ProcMon, and I see that it is trying to do TCP connections to 127.0.0.1:3216. It is trying to connect to this LSX server.
After many failed attempts, the process closes.
The bfv.exe process is not even trying to read any PROFSAVE files or launch GUI window / GPU threads.
It starts, reads dlls and some registry, and then fails to connect to 127.0.0.1:3216 and closes.
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.
Found the solution! :D :D
My hypothesis above was correct, the reason bfv isn't working is because EA Desktop (or Origin I presume) is not able to start the LSX Server on port 3216.
I realized that I couldn't listen on port 3216 myself either with netcat. So I found out that Windows 10 has Port Exclusion Ranges.
These are ranges of TCP ports that cannot be used by any process, even if that process is running as administrator.Run the following command in CMD and see if there is a range blocking port 3216:
C:\>netsh int ip show excludedportrange protocol=tcp Protocol tcp Port Exclusion Ranges Start Port End Port ---------- -------- 1085 1184 1185 1284 1285 1384 1385 1484 1485 1584 1585 1684 1685 1784 1785 1884 1988 2087 2088 2187 2188 2287 2288 2387 2388 2487 2488 2587 2588 2687 2688 2787 2991 3090 3091 3190 3191 3290 <-- This is the culprit! 3390 3489 3490 3589 3590 3689 3690 3789 3790 3889 3903 4002 4003 4102 4103 4202 4203 4302 4303 4402 4403 4502 4503 4602 4700 4799 5216 5315 5358 5457 5458 5557 5558 5657 50000 50059 * * - Administered port exclusions.I tried to delete this port range, so that EA Desktop can use it, but I was blocked:
C:\> netsh interface ipv4 delete excludedportrange protocol=tcp startport=3191 numberofports=100 Access is denied.
After some googling I found out that these Port Ranges can be created by Hyper-V and virtual network adapters (vmware, virtualbox, vpn, whatever).
In my case it was a virtual network adapter!Go to your network adapter list Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections and disable all your virtual network adapters! (Hyper-V, TAP-Windows, VMware, etc).
I checked my list of excluded ports again, and 3216 was no longer being blocked by any ranges! I restarted EA Desktop and BFV is now working!
Thanks EA for adding logging to the EA Desktop client. Origin didn't provide this type of detail and that way I would never have figured this out.
Cheers. Hopefully it helps others out there 🙂
