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9 years ago

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Game executables have green pause icons

Star Wars Battlefront is yet another game to be plagued with this green pause button bug/glitch/menace. For some reason it seems that lots of my games all share this fugly green pause icon. http://imgur.com/a/wlTrf

It seems to be exclusive to Frostbite games as it has plagued me over the past few years on Battlefield 4, Star Wars Battlefront, Battlefield 1, Dragon Age Inquisition and Plants vs Zombies. Reinstalling the games does nothing and it seems to be hit and miss if the icons appear or not.

My current installation of Battlefield 4 actually seems to have the correct icon. The one I had for Dragon Age Inquisition yesterday was also fine but I made the horrible decision of reinstalling it on my SSD just now. This gave me yet another green pause icon.

I know that you can simply change the icons for your shortcuts on the desktop but not the actual executables. This might just seem like a non-issue but this has legit been bothering me for years now. Googling also indicates that others have experienced this but I haven't been able to find any solutions other than just changing the shortcut icons.

What's weird is that when choosing the icon for your shortcut you can easily find the correct one for BF4, DA:I and SW:BF. These are found in their respective game libraries (default should be C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\[NAME OF THE GAME]) and then by going into the folder "__Installer" and finding the file "GDFBinary_en_US.dll". These do not apply during the installation and the horrible green pause icon is instead applied.

I have experienced this on both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Any help whatsoever would be appreciated as this is just about to drive me mad at this point (if it hasn't already). Thanks.

EA_Atic
5 years ago
I'm closing this thread to stop it being necroed.

If you have any issues with SWBF please make a new topic about the issues you are having and what kind of steps you have tried to solve it.

For the "green pause icons" it is related to having windows in a different language that is not English and can cause the game icon to be a "green pause icons".

/Atic

17 Replies

EA_Archi
EA Staff (Retired)
9 years ago
Hello @IFrike

Can you check the workaround for this issue, our users came up with in this thread? I guess it worked for Windows 10, but might also fix this for Windows 8. Let me know how you are doing.

Cheers,

Archi
IFrike
9 years ago
Hey @EA_Archi

Typing shell:games and copying a shortcut from there does show the correct icon. However not all games are available there. The actual .exe is still broken somehow and I should not have to go trough all those steps to get this working. If I sound annoyed that is because I am because this has been a problem for me ever since I started playing Battlefield 4 on my previous PC.
EA_Archi
EA Staff (Retired)
9 years ago
@IFrike

No worries! You are fine. I also think everything should work as intended, but PC is a very complicated platform, and some issues are really hard to reproduce. I`ve had the same issue once with Dragon Age Inquisition icon on Windows 7. But it was resolved after some Windows update. Can you gather a DxDiag for us, and I will forward your information to our tech department to take a closer look.
IFrike
9 years ago
@EA_Archi

This problem has occured to me with I believe every Frostbite-game I've played this far and only those. It also happened on my previous PC but it would be a lot of trouble to boot that up to gather a DxDiag. Doing it on this system was no problem but where do I attach the report?
EA_Archi
EA Staff (Retired)
9 years ago
@IFrike

Use this option in the lower-right corner of the message screen.
IFrike
9 years ago
@EA_Archi

Like this? Thank you 🙂
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EA_Archi
EA Staff (Retired)
9 years ago
Perfect @IFrike !

Thanks a million! Hope those tech guys will figure this out, thanks to you. Let me know, should your icons get fixed with some Windows update, like mine ones was.

Cheers,

Archi
IFrike
8 years ago
Hello again, @EA_Archi !

I'd just like to point out that Mass Effect: Andromeda is now suffering from this vicious bug as well. It is most definitely related to the Frostbite engine although there does not appear to be anyone that has actually fixed it at this point.
EA_Archi
EA Staff (Retired)
8 years ago
Hello @IFrike

And thank you for additional information. I must say we are having hard time reproducing this bug. But we will keep trying. So have you played Mass Effect: Andromeda already? Any thought, you can share with us here on the game?

Cheers,

Archi
IFrike
8 years ago
Not available in Europe yet (unfortunately). I have it preloaded which is enough to notice the bug, though. Game looks amazing from what I've seen so far, can't wait! 🙂