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MrMolchy
4 years ago

Origin Play Button Greyed Out - Battlefield 2042

Game launcher: Origin Game: Battlefield 2042 Windows: 11 Steps: 1. Start Origin 2. Click Play game 3. Nothing happens 4. Cannot click Play again 5. Exit Origin 6. Open Origin 7. Try again ...
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EA_Leeuw's avatar
EA_Leeuw
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4 years ago

Hey @FettenDiddi @MrMolchy, I have moved your thread to a more appropriate board for this issue, the Origin board. 🙂

It's unfortunate to hear that you're having these issues.

What are the troubleshooting steps that you've tried already to try to fix the issues, if any?

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FettenDiddi
4 years ago

Having both Origin and EA Desktop installed (the later one because of the Xbox Gamepass), these installations seem to mess up each other.

EA Desktop seems to bring some services with it that are running already at Windows start-up, preventing Origin from starting BF1 successfully most of the times.

Doesn't matter, EA Desktop Beta "workaround" works.

Don't know about problems with BF2042, i can't play that anymore anyway, and I don't care about that one at alle anymore.

  • EA_Leeuw's avatar
    EA_Leeuw
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    4 years ago
    @FettenDiddi, so for you only launching the game via EA Desktop works, right?
    • FettenDiddi's avatar
      FettenDiddi
      4 years ago
      @EA_Leeuw
      It's totally unpredictable.
      Yesterday, it worked from Origin.
      Today, it's greyed-out right after system start in Origin.
      When I did start anything else (EA Desktop, other Origin-based games) it won't work, that's 100% predictable then (greyed-out immediately or after first try).
      Problems started some months ago, never happened before BF2042 was "launched".

      And yes, no problem so far using the EA Desktop to start-up BF1, but this is still a beta and features are missing/non-working, especially trying to join friends what almost never works in-game in BF1 or BFV ("game session doesn't exist", but that's another issue that was never fixed, we just get used to it...)
      • EA_Leeuw's avatar
        EA_Leeuw
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        4 years ago
        @FettenDiddi, do you have an EA game via Steam aswell by any chance, and your EA account linked to a Steam account?

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