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h3x1e's avatar
3 years ago
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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.

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