Game not launching through Steam.
Since installing the new EA App yesterday, after a restart of my PC overnight 2042 isnt booting anymore.
Symptoms:
Open Steam >
Click "Play" on Battlefield 2042 >
Origin "Thin" loads tray icon and GUI appears >
Origin sits in system tray >
Steam button changes to "X Stop" >
Origin sits in tray a little longer >
Origin closes itself >
Steam button changes back to "Play" >
Game does not launch.
EAC splash screen does not appear.
EAC or 2042 executibles do not appear in Task Manager
New Symptom
"DisplayName field missing from registry\."
Things tried:
Clean boot
Verifying Steme Games Cache
Restarting Steam
Uninstalling EA App
Uninstalling Origin & Reinstalling
Restarting PC
Overnight Shutdown PC
Turning off ALL overlays
Launcing through Origin.
Using "Repair" through Origin (but that just seems to validate on steam)
Launching the game via BF2042_Launcher.exe
Launching the game via BF2042.exe
repairing EAC via EasyAntiCheat_Setup.exe
Deleting ~/Documents/Battlefield 2042/settings
System Specs:
Win11 22H2
5900X
3080
32GB 3600 M/T RAM
NVmE install location
This seems to have randomly fixed itself, duno which thing fixed it combined with a shutdown overnight.