I'm in the same boat.
Problem:
I do not want to go through EA App on my desktop. I prefer to launch the game (BF 2042) directly from the game app.
eg. I can open COD Modern WF directly from the desktop games desktop app.
Lamen terms answer please with bullets for process steps that do not include reinstall.
Hello and thank you for responding.
Within the three dots, these are my only options.
Play
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Time played:
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Manage on Steam
I went to Steam and there is an option in Settings/Manage/Add Desktop Shortcut, but it still didn't work.
Yes I'm using a PC, thanks!
Right click the game cover in Steam > Manage > Add Desktop Shortcut.
If that don't works then there is a problem in Steam, EA app has nothing to do with this.
Way to ignore the question asked.🤨
Why do some people not even make an effort to read past and partly the last comment?
1- "How do you create game shortcut on EA Desktop APP",
2- "if so , open the EA app on the desktop , click my collection, find the game you want to add shortcut to desktop and click the 3 dots in the top right corner of the tile"
3- " Within the three dots, these are my only options: - Play - Time played: - Manage on Steam. I went to Steam and there is an option in Settings/Manage/Add Desktop Shortcut, but it still didn't work."
Holger1405Hero, that is incorrect. I have played Mass Effect legendary several times through Steam until EA took control. Now, it takes an act of congress to get the game to launch. The EA app is a complete disaster.
If you bring up Task Manager (ctrl + alt + del), and then start The Sims, you can find it in the list of processes. Right-click on "The SimsTM 4" and select "Open File Location." That will bring you to "TS4_x64.exe" which you can again right-click on, and then you can hit "Create Shortcut" and drop that onto your desktop; or you can select "Pin To Start," which is what I did, and that worked for me to go directly into loading the game instead of having to meander through the EA app first (at long last). It does still open the EA app, but it shifts into The Sims on its own shortly thereafter without you having to do anything else.
Firstly... How has this not been addressed yet???
Also, This doesn't work for me.
When I try I get either:
"Origin is not installed, and is required to play your game. Please reinstall Orgin" (in either a generic Windows box or in an old origin styled box)
"You'll need a new app to open this origin2 link"
"EA App is not installed, and is required to play your game. Please reinstall EA App"
Given that between old Origin games being installed in \Program Files (x86)\Origin Games and others in \Program Files\EA Games - I'm not surprised there is a disconnect, but fixing shouldn't be this hard...
What game we are talking about?
C-BoT-AU wrote:
Given that between old Origin games being installed in \Program Files (x86)\Origin Games and others in \Program Files\EA Games - I'm not surprised there is a disconnect, but fixing shouldn't be this hard...
The location of the game is irrelevant, a shortcut will work from both locations.
C-BoT-AU wrote:
Also, This doesn't work for me.
When I try I get either:
"Origin is not installed, and is required to play your game. Please reinstall Orgin" (in either a generic Windows box or in an old origin styled box)"You'll need a new app to open this origin2 link"
"EA App is not installed, and is required to play your game. Please reinstall EA App"
What exactly is not working? (What post do you refer too?)
If EA app is installed on your system then there is a mismatch of some sort, probably a registry mismatch, that blocks the link between the EA app and the game.
Does the game launces if you start from EA app?
So I tried with multiple games (BF4, BF2042, SW: Jedi Survivor, They are Billions).
The solution I mentioned that wasn't working was creating a shortcut directly from the game .exe file (and even trying to launch the .exe didn't work).
Yes, launching games directly from within the EA App worked.
I managed to fix it by uninstalling EA using Revo Uninstaller which helped remove SOME of the registry entries, but I noticed some irregularities (listings of the old Origin launcher etc), so I used RegScanner to scan for any entries containing old links (Origin etc) and either delete them or manually amend them. It was almost as if some games had entries that pointed to needing origin, which then pointed to EA App rather than being properly updated when the app was updated.
Then Installed EA App again and now it seems to be working. Creating shortcuts or launching the exe works.
Very painful process, and I wont detail exactly what I did in case someone tries and really breaks it.
Ultimately, it looks like through the myriad of updates to Origin and the EA App, there have been broken registry entries and incomplete update processes.
And this doesn't address the whole problem of not being able to do it from within the app...
There should indeed be a function within the app, hopefully it will be added in the future.
