I just downloaded the free Battlefront 2 celebration edition and the game won't open. I've tried just about everything that i've seen so far. I double click on the icon on my desktop and there isn't any response. I can't launch it from the Origin app and running as administrator doesn't work. I've shut down and rebooted from the start menu as well. I am on my 3rd install try. As soon as it was playable, I tried launching the game and still have the same problems.

@EA_Atic I was able to get it to work by logging into the Epic Game Store and launching from there. It's the only way the game will launch. It's pretty annoying to have to open one game store to launch it for a different game store (Origin) to play with friends there. Following all these "fixes" has now caused discord to have to be launched in admin mode every single time which is also another step that shouldn't have to be done either. Everything seems to work fine once it's all launched but it's a lot just to play a game. Fairly glad the game was free.

Battlefront 2: Celebration Edition not launching.

12 Replies

IsFunkio
5 years ago
@mazdatuner09 https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/I-think-i-found-a-fix-for-the-blue-screen-problem-at-launch/m-p/9958395#M37598
i included a fix for this problem in my post
mazdatuner09
5 years ago
@IsFunkio My files don't have a settings folder.
mazdatuner09
5 years ago
This is what my folder has.
IsFunkio
5 years ago
i said and meant windows user documents folder, not game folder.
windowsdrive:\users\yourpcusername\documents\star wars battlefront ii\settings
mazdatuner09
5 years ago
I don't have that folder either.
IsFunkio
5 years ago
in my post check the update 2 at the very beginning, download the folder, paste that folder into documents.
run the game

if the image is too big after launching the game, hit alt f4, right click star wars bf2 icon, properties, compatibility and disable dpi scaling
decimal4000
5 years ago
@IsFunkio up for this, thanks for the contribution, i hope everyone get their issue fixed and can enjoy the game nicely.
mazdatuner09
5 years ago
Game still won't launch. When I double click on the icon from the desktop, the mouse icon loading animation happens twice, like the computer is thinking and then nothing happens.
EA_Atic
DICE Team
5 years ago
Hey, @mazdatuner09 make sure that all drivers for windows are up to date, also worth to reinstall the GPU drivers for your PC.

You can also try to do a clean boot to see if there any programs messing with Star Wars: Battlefront 2 and turn off any overlay programs for example Discord or Nvidia experience.

Can you add a Dxdiag so we can see what hardware and drivers you have?

Let me know if this works or not for you. 🙂

/Atic
mazdatuner09
5 years ago
@EA_Atic I was able to get it to work by logging into the Epic Game Store and launching from there. It's the only way the game will launch. It's pretty annoying to have to open one game store to launch it for a different game store (Origin) to play with friends there. Following all these "fixes" has now caused discord to have to be launched in admin mode every single time which is also another step that shouldn't have to be done either. Everything seems to work fine once it's all launched but it's a lot just to play a game. Fairly glad the game was free.