Re: Star Wars: Squadrons on Steam not working

For further updates - I have checked my Origin account, and my other Steam purchased EA games show up in my EA Games library with a small Steam badge in the top left corner, but Star Wars Squadrons isn't included with them. I own 3 EA Star Wars games: Star Wars Battlefront II, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and Star Wars: Squadrons(which does not show on my account)

How exactly am I supposed to fix this? I gifted a copy of the game on October 20th, 2020 to a friend to get them playing with me, I even preordered the game and have played through the campaign more than once - Why is this only now being an issue? What am I supposed to do to get it re-added so that I can go back to playing my game?

5 Replies

OldFaartQ
2 years ago
I have exactly the same issue, EA tech support have not responded, only their chat service who say they are referring the issue to the techs. Steam support are unable to help.
EA_Illium
EA Staff (Retired)
2 years ago
Hi @KramerThCourier @OldFaartQ

First to check do you use the Origin client or the EA app client? (recently Origin was replaced and this may be leading to issues)

If you are on the EA app, can you confirm that Steam and EA app accounts are linked together?

If so, launch both before launching SWS, if the issue continues try disabling the Steam and EA app overlays and check if this continues.
KramerThCourier
2 years ago
I have already disabled both the Steam and EA app overlays. I have even tried uninstalling and re-installing the origin/EA app to make sure that wasn't the problem(I still call it Origin out of habit). My steam account is already linked to my EA account, and has been for years. The only thing I HAVEN'T done is completely wipe and re-install Windows because I no longer have access to my old key and can't afford to buy a whole new copy of Windows right now, nor do I want to rebuild my digital environment back from the ground up to play a game again. I don't understand what about this game has CHANGED since I've played in years prior that now changes whether or not the game can even open the EA login page
OldFaartQ
2 years ago
I have also done all that as @KramerThCourier did @EA_Illium and nothing works, it still gets stuck at the blank EA verification screen. I wouldn't bother re loading windows, it's not that. I am sure it is an EA issue and possibly Steam VR? I'm running the beta's of both Steam products and it still happens. I have verified the game install and all is well. I even uninstalled SW Squadrons and re installed it. Same issue. I did one time get the the verification screen options appear, but no way of selecting any of them.

Out of interest, I tried to run Battlefront II in Theatre VR mode as it is a PC game only and doesn't support VR, and was able to see the EA verification screen and requested verification and all worked and I was able to play the game in theatre mode.

Needless to say it didn't work with SW Squadrons, in either PC mode or VR mode, I just was presented the blank screen with close in the top right hand corner.

This is really irritating!
KramerThCourier
2 years ago
Not a SteamVR issue, sadly. It does it in pancake mode too with no success. Its a fault with the game itself my guess