[PC] Titanfall2.exe wont appear but visible in Task Manager

Hi I've just recently just bought Titanfall 2 (physical copy) yesterday and installed it. However upon installation, when pressed the "Play" button in origin the game does not appear. I can see Titanfall2.exe in the task manager eating about 50%+ of my cpu usage (refer pic) and using about less than 20mb memory. Weird thing is, that is not giving any error messages at all. Been hours on EA customer chat support and they still have not been able to solve the problem.

My specs are below:

Core i5 6402P

Nvidia GTS 450 on 375.86 driver

4GB DDR4

I've ruled out the "Did not meet the minimum requirements" issue because the same specs above installed and launched/ran Battlefield 1 without any issue whatsoever.

Things I've done so far:

Reinstalled TF2 (4 times, 3 times from dvds and once downloading via origin)

Repair game from origin

Cleared Origins cache

Run Titanfall2.exe as admin

Did A filecheck via sfc scan

Ran CCleaner to clean files and registry and still has not worked.

Does anyone have any solution to this? This is the first time I've gone through this problem for an origin game. All my other games ran perfectly without any problems at all. I've also noticed i'm not the only one having this issue with TF2 and gone through every method stated in the threads but still no avail.

DxDiag.txt63 KB

EA_Barry
8 years ago
@kriktik

Please confirm if your system meets the requirements to play this game:

Minimum
OS: Win 7/8/8.1/10 64bit
CPU: Intel Core i3-6300t or equivalent [4 or more hardware threads]
RAM: 8GB
HDD Free Space: 45GB
GPU : NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 2GB or AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB
DirectX: 11
Internet Connection: 512Kbps or faster

If you are not sure, you can post your Dxdiag report here:

https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/

22 Replies

EA_David
Community Admin
9 years ago
@RazorReaperr Minimum specs don't work that way, just because one game runs doesn't guarantee another one will. The games in question use very different game engines, and the card in question is far below the minimum specs.

The game may run on below min-spec, and we'd like to see folks get into the game, but perhaps there's a hard cut-off.

You can try opening the game in WIndowed mode and see if that changes anything. At My Documents\Respawn\Titanfall2\local you'll find your videoconfig file.

If you open that and change the "settting.fullscreen" value to "0" it should try to launch the game in Windowed mode.

If this is ineffective here's a settings file with the graphics settings set to the minimum, opening in 1440 x 900 Windowed. Perhaps changing your settings file to these values will help?

Spoiler
"VideoConfig"
{
"setting.cl_fovScale" "1"
"setting.cl_gib_allow" "0"
"setting.cl_particle_fallback_base" "3"
"setting.cl_particle_fallback_multiplier" "2"
"setting.cl_ragdoll_maxcount" "0"
"setting.cl_ragdoll_self_collision" "1"
"setting.mat_depthfeather_enable" "1"
"setting.mat_forceaniso" "1"
"setting.mat_mip_linear" "0"
"setting.stream_memory" "0"
"setting.mat_picmip" "2"
"setting.particle_cpu_level" "0"
"setting.r_createmodeldecals" "0"
"setting.r_decals" "256"
"setting.r_lod_switch_scale" "0.6"
"setting.shadow_enable" "0"
"setting.shadow_depthres" "256"
"setting.shadow_maxdynamic" "0"
"setting.r_hbaoenabled" "0"
"setting.modeldecals_forceAllowed" "-1"
"setting.dvs_enable" "0"
"setting.dvs_gpuframetime_min" "12668"
"setting.dvs_gpuframetime_max" "13067"
"setting.defaultres" "1440"
"setting.defaultresheight" "900"
"setting.fullscreen" "0"
"setting.nowindowborder" "0"
"setting.mat_vsync_mode" "0"
"setting.mat_backbuffer_count" "1"
"setting.mat_antialias_mode" "0"
"setting.csm_enabled" "0"
"setting.csm_quality_level" "1"
"setting.csm_cascade_res" "256"
"setting.gamma" "1.000000"
"setting.configversion" "7"
RazorReaperr
9 years ago
The Respawn folder is not even in my Documents folder. I think the game has not fully deployed yet, hence it has not created any save game/config files yet.

Could not run in windowed mode as well while using the command lines

-noborder -windowed
MADrag0n
Legend
9 years ago
Make clean boot https://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135 then try run tf2
RazorReaperr
9 years ago
Nop still the same.
MADrag0n
Legend
9 years ago
In command prompt enter a commands then attach to a message list.txt file from root folder of С:\ drive
set > C:\list.txt
tasklist /v >> C:\list.txt
RazorReaperr
9 years ago
Here
list.txt27 KB
MADrag0n
Legend
9 years ago
@RazorReaperr

Try to disable/close any progs from a list and related processes:

Steam
JDownloader
"ASUS Com", "AI Suite"
"NVIDIA Experience"
"GIGABYTE FORCE", "Xtreme Gaming Engine"
"MSI Afterburner"
"MSI Intel Extreme Tuning Utility", "Intel Extreme Tuning Utility", "Intel Integrated Clock Controller"

Then run Origin as Admin and try run tf2 from it..
RazorReaperr
9 years ago
@MADrag0n Nope still not working. Exe file just sits there in the task manager and not physically appearing.
MADrag0n
Legend
9 years ago
perhaps, ur GPU don't meet minimum requirement - GPU - NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 2GB
RazorReaperr
9 years ago
I think the problem is within the game itself. I'm aware my gpu doesn't meet the requirement, but it still manages to launch BF1 without problems.
Even BF1 requests the same requirement as TF2 but it manages to launch. This game isn't even launching! No error messages, nothing. I've played many games using my old dual core rig despite not meeting the min requirements of a particular game but it still runs. What problems happen's during/after in-game is a different story.

Besides, I'm not the only one with this problem.

http://answers.ea.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?filter=location&location=forum-board%3Atitanfall-2-technical-issues-en&q=not+starting