I did exactly what you mentioned. Ran the executable as admin inside the game folder moved/pasted to my desktop. EA App popped up then stayed open but the game disappeared from my EA Library (expected since the game was purchased or handled by Steam). Got a pop up from EA App that the game did not exist or was moved. I have included my DxDiag as well.
@ELxSIGINT thats ok, only launch steam as admin !
DO NOT START ANY OTHER GAMEPLATFORM !
If ya did buy bf2042 by steam , then opnly run steam as admin and start BF2042 in steam !
ps i see 3 or more monitors connected ?
shutdown pc, and disconnect all monitors and test with only 1 monitor please,
just to test , to check if graphics driver is making any issues some how !
Also for test make sure you only got 1 jeyboard , 1 mouse and 1 headset connected ,
disconnect any other hardware !
As soon game is is starting up and running , you could test hardware
by connecting 1 again and test game , repeat steps till ya found the issue ,
just to check if any hardware cause an issue !
update us!
@Rokebo73 Same issue, no start. I shut down the PC, unplugged 2 monitors and left my main one on. Made sure nothing else was plugged aside from essentials (keyboard, mouse, headset. Then plugged in my second monitor, then 3rd. all made no difference. I used to think this was caused by corrupted files but I verified it with Steam's options and have reinstalled it multiple times already.
