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NVDaemon
8 years ago
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Can not play battlefront, it doesn't start

the game just does not start at all, there's a process, consuming ~170mb ram, and it does not change. Nothing hapenning. checked drivers, directx, c++ redistributables, run as admin, clear origin ca...
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    NVDaemon
    8 years ago

    UPD: found the issue, it was freakin' windows firewall, BUILT IN firewall, i can now imagine how it's not managed by ea, as no other games needed to add them into exceptions in the firewall settings; they either made it automatically or were independent from it

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ietxmmyrus
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8 years ago

Hey @NVDaemon, I know you said you tried turning off the antivirus before, can you try to shut it down and then launch the game again?

Also please create a DxDiag file and attach it here, that might come in handy - here's how you do that.

NVDaemon's avatar
NVDaemon
8 years ago

UPD: found the issue, it was freakin' windows firewall, BUILT IN firewall, i can now imagine how it's not managed by ea, as no other games needed to add them into exceptions in the firewall settings; they either made it automatically or were independent from it

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    ietxmmyrus
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    8 years ago

    Hey @NVDaemon,

    glad to hear you figured that out - sometimes it's just the last thing you look at because it would be too easy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Hope you enjoy the game, have a great weekend!

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    Rampage6336
    3 years ago

    how do i remove this firewall

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