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mofette_bander's avatar
3 years ago
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EA app encountered an error and could not finish installing

Hi,

BF5, bought on Steam, during first launch the error appears "Something went wrong". See attached screenshot. Could you please help with this?

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  • Perhaps the EA logs can reveal more specific information. Go to the %TEMP% folder, and open the EA_app_<identifier> log file in a text editor. Look for entries around the time the error occurred, likely marked as ERROR.

    I'm having a hard time installing the EA app myself. My installation fails with a misleading error stating EA can't connect to the internet, when the EA log file shows that in fact it fails to  fetch a package for some other reason than the WiFi connection (either the request is malformed, or the package location is wrong).

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    EA_Illium
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    3 years ago

    Hi @mofette_bander Would it be possible to create a new local admin and check if you are able to install the EA App?

  • Creating new local account with admin right helped. EA app installed successfully. But I can launch the game only via that new account. Thank you for good advice!

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    EA_Illium
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    3 years ago
    @mofette_bander Glad to hear this worked! we may be dealing with some form of corruption on the original windows account.

    You might be able to try backing your files up, and readding the account or reaching out to Microsoft for further guidance.
  • Literally 0 of the fixes on any thread work for me. 

    i had to manually remove the blocking message on origin so i can still play my games

    Admins only respond to things that they can hit you with generic fixes from a copy and paste notepad they have saved.

    ea are absolutely clueless as always, Blaming it on a corrupt system or something when literally the forums are FULL of people with the same issues. Its an EA issue, Not an us issue. 

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