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ToddFraud25
3 years ago
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Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 Not Opening

I've been trying to open PvZGW2 for a long while now and nothing has worked. I've tried using both Origins and the EA app but both do the same thing; it closes Origin/EA app for a second, and then it...
  • ToddFraud25's avatar
    ToddFraud25
    3 years ago

    I managed to fix it just now, try doing this:

    Open the start menu and type in "environment variables"


    If you happen to see something that says "GAME_DATA_DIR", delete that.

    What's weird is that "GAME_DATA_DIR" was a star wars battlefront 2 thing, so I have no idea why that affected pvz.

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maimeikee
3 years ago

Literally bought the game yesterday worked perfectly fine. Now I cant even get past the launcher. I have a 3050ti and 16gb of ram so I dont think its my pc. ( I also updated drivers, refreshed steam cache, restarted pc, and reinstalled still no fix)

  • ToddFraud25's avatar
    ToddFraud25
    3 years ago

    I managed to fix it just now, try doing this:

    Open the start menu and type in "environment variables"


    If you happen to see something that says "GAME_DATA_DIR", delete that.

    What's weird is that "GAME_DATA_DIR" was a star wars battlefront 2 thing, so I have no idea why that affected pvz.

    • maimeikee's avatar
      maimeikee
      3 years ago

      Thank you for sharing this idea. Hopefully it works (I’m away from my pc so I don’t know if it’s gonna work) but I recently downloaded mods for battlefront 2 and it would make sense that maybe it is causing a problem. 

    • MatteoCristian's avatar
      MatteoCristian
      3 years ago

      Hello, i posted my problem in topics, im having the same problem, the game wont launch, i already tried what you said on environment variables and GAME_DATA_DIR does not appear anywhere. Dont know what to do. I downloaded the game from the EA website just bought it yesterday and is not working i have windowns 10 x64 i7

    • 600e46c31c38228's avatar
      600e46c31c38228
      2 years ago

      What version of Windows are you running?  My start menu doesn't have that anywhere?  No dos prompt?

  • Timephoenix9219's avatar
    Timephoenix9219
    3 years ago

    Happens to me too. I know my PC is capable of running it because it did launch once.

    • Breakinus's avatar
      Breakinus
      3 years ago

      Hi, for me the ea app is the problem. I can tell u. On Origin all runs fine. I ve got PVZ GW2 Deluxe Edition. On Ea ive only got the normal garden Warfare 2.

      And now i can´ßt find no other players 4 munltipayer games. 

      The EA support is not able to help. i want Origin back.

      As you can see on the pics, it says that deluxe is included. But it does not show up at the game and i can still purchase it. 

      • AkatsukiGanja42's avatar
        AkatsukiGanja42
        3 years ago

        I'm guessing no one can help an Xbox player who's dealing with this same ridiculous crap of the game not wanting to open. It says it just doesn't connect. I just wanna take over some turds 

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