Cant launch Battlefield 2042 through EA Play app

Hey all,

These issues sound very similar to this: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Black-Screen-on-Launch/td-p/12288866/highlight/true.

Could that be correct?

I have the base game of sims 4 and a ton of the DLC all of which is playable on Origins but only the content available through EA Access is usable on the EA app.

I can’t play the sims and have t found a solution yet ☹️

@DadsSpaghettios, @Absurdkale90, this is a thread about Battlefield 2042, not Sims 4. 🙂 Please create a new thread for this. Thanks.

Hey there Everyone

I am just randomly replying here around BF2042 not launching through EA APP

So I have been struggling with this for months now where I installed the game, installed, repaired it, and did the same with the origin and EA APP as well. The scenario was that I have BF2042 onS team, so when I try to play it then it opens the EA APP and then restarts the app with no message,. no error nothing and the game not launching. I then read that Origin does not have this issue, I uninstalled EA App, and installed and used origin for a week before origin then again asked me and FORCED me to install EA App....so the problem again persisted where the game does not launch at all and just restarts the EA App constantly when I try to run the game.

Through countless threads, I have tried and tried all solutions from wipe to install from uninstall to permission etc and Today I finally stumbled upon the problem.

The issue I had was that EA App itself along with the EA App services all needed to be run as Administrator. So my solution to this was as follows:
1) Go to - C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EA Desktop\EA Desktop
2) On ALL EXE files that have EA logo meaning EABackgroundservices.exe/EACRashReporter.exe/EAConnect_microsoft exe/EALauncher EXE/errorReporter exe/EAUpdater exe I right-click on each go to "properties - compatibility-change settings for all users and select "run this program as an administrator". 
3) Close EA App, Close Steam, and relaunch Steam-EA App and started the game, and it Works

I don't know if it was a specific exe one that I changed that caused it to get fixed - I literally gave up hope and said I'm going to forget the game coz every time I want to play it doesn't open or struggle for hours and days to get it working. And this time I tried this as mentioned above and it worked. So I also did the same for the EasyAnti cheat apps on PC and the BF2042_Launcher and AntiCheat launchers. However the Launchers of BNF2042 didn't fix it, the EA App changes however did. Regardless everything works now so I assume its the EA App permission to run as an administrator that' caused the issue.

Hope this helps someone 🙂

Stay safe soldiers.

Man, I was hopeful, but this still didn't work! 

I have been using the Origin workaround since EA started pushing the app, and the app has never worked, not once. 

I guarantee I have tried every option listed in every thread, now including this one. 


I sure would like to play the game I bought. 

What fixed it for me was the EA App 'Run As Admin' as above but I also had to do the same to the BF2042.exe and BF2042_Launcher.exe. Running Steam as admin should be ignored as a solution, this is all EA.

I tried this, but still have the same issue. Even clean installed windows 11.