Jedi fallen order wont launch through steam.
steam tells me that the file setup is incorrect and tells me to reinstall but it doesn't make a difference every time I do it wondering if anyone else has this problem.
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I've been at this for a couple days. I have done every troubleshooting step that I could find online. The only thing I can come up with is that the EA app is the failure point here. I have reinstalled the game, restarted the app, repaired the app, cleared the cache, reinstalled steam, relinked steam, checked registry keys, added exceptions to the firewall, disabled my firewall, disabled windows security, turned off my vpn...nothing I have found on any forum, here, reddit, steam...etc. has worked. This game ran flawlessly with Origin. The forced change to the EA app has crippled a game I paid full price for. I was considering pre-ordering Jedi Survivor, but if I can't get a game I already own to work, why would I buy more games that will likely not work? Fix your app.
UPDATE: Ok, this is really stupid that I have had to do this. The EA app natively tries to install to my C drive. My Steam library is on a different drive. I changed where Jedi Fallen Order installed to my C drive and now it shows up in the EA app and is playable. I don't know if anyone else runs their library from a different drive, but that might help you in this instance. EA, you really need to fix this if that is the bug that others are having like I had. Most people are running multiple drives in their gaming PCs.
ANOTHER UPDATE: After changing the install location of the EA app to the same drive as my steam library, then installing Jedi Fallen Order back to my games drive, it no longer sees that it's installed at all. After moving my installation of Jedi Fallen Order back to my boot drive, the EA app is able to see the game. The EA app must only be looking for games on your boot drive. This is a stupid failure by EA.
A friend of mine apparently has zero issue launching the game from Steam. They also do not have it installed on the C drive. It just works perfectly for them, but for us it doesn't work for no reason I can find, and trust me, I have been TRYING to find the reason. Every avenue has been met with just the entire thing not making A LICK of sense as to why this isn't working. The EA App just tells me my Steam games aren't installed. Forcing the game to run from the local files is the only way to play the game for folks like us. This is not going to get fixed, EA is either incapable, doesn't care, or both. I can't even get Jedi Survivor now because I'm willing to bet this will happen with a new game as well.
EA can't help anyone. God can't even help now. Abandon all hope, ye Steam user who enters here.
