Can't launch any game from EA Desktop or Origin and a bit of rant

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I know this has been debated OVER and OVER but i'm getting tired of it to be honest.
If i could i would request a full refund on all my EA games...
Origin was a joke because this happened and we couldn't fix anything... Now EA Desktop, we can't even change a game language from the properties.
Anyway here is what i tried so far:
Disabling any Overlay window or Origin/ Steam or EA Desktop with the result: Didn't fix anything.
Reinstalling Visual C++ redistributables and installing everything back and rebooting in between: No fix.
I reinstalled all games from scratch: No, not running.
Disabling Discord Overlay and removing discord fully and rebooting to avoid any issue: No... not launching.
Doing a cold reboot on Windows 10 running: shutdown.exe /s /f /t 0 and it didn't fix anything
Uninstalling and installing the latest nvidia driver after running DDU NVIDIA GeForce 526.47 WHQL and nothing.
Updating windows using windows update and i'm running the latest patches for windows 10 19045.2193 and nothing.
Reinstalling everything from scratch, doing full formats and NO AVAIL. Games simply have the following behaviour: They open a small black window and close it... and nothing.
Did a prime95 stress test to see if any hardware had faults and the result is atttached,no hardware problems and everything runs good.

BUT here is something that blows my mind...
Sometimes, i reboot the game at a time of the day and games run normally totally at random...
Either BF1 runs, or BF4 or 2042 and i play for 2 or 3 hours and the same behaviour occours.

I've come to the conclusion that the issue is server sided or a problem with EA desktop/Origin because its random... and totally unpredictable.

I can run any game from Steam or Epic Games launcher WITHOUT a single issue but if a game requires origin/EA desktop... forget playing it.

Anyway i did attach a couple of game crashes i had on 2042 that Ea desktop captured and my dxdiag...

Dunno what else to do because its so random, all i want to do is uninstall all EA games, origin and EA Desktop and move on to play only games from Steam.

Its ridiculous that EA doesn't have a competente programmer team to fix servers and your apps and have'em run flawlessly... Ridiculous

PS: Talked to friend have 3 friends with the same issues as i do, they simply gave up EA games... and EA desktop/ Origin

Answer

My EA Desktop app on my PC would not launch any of my games. A yellow banner across the top would pop up saying to try again a little later. There are a few things I did that fixed the problem, but I am not sure if all, or only one of them was the actual solution.&nbsp; First, I made sure to launch the EA Desktop using the app "EADesktop", and not "EALauncher".&nbsp; I set the EADesktop properties to Administrator.&nbsp; Then I opened up Windows "Services" app. and found the "EABackgroundService" app, and in properties, set it to "Automatic".&nbsp; You can find the Services app my pressing the windows key and then at the top, type "Services".&nbsp; It will bring it up, and you can click to launch. Once you find the "EABackgroundService" line, rigjht-click and select "Properties". In the middle of the pop up box there is a line "Startup Type", select "Automatic". You may need to re-start your computer. This might help some people's situation. See Attachments for a brief guidance.

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