Battlefront won't launch through Steam/EA on PC

[Zerindo]

When I try launching it on steam it loads in an empty EA window and for a moment it says that the game is launching. Shortly after it goes back to the Launch button as if the game didnt start at all and I'm back on the normal EA app window. Launching it through EA didnt work either. Having EA closed while launching BF2 on Steam didn't and the same goes when steam is closed while launching it through EA.


Anyone encountered the same issue with a possible solution? I'm seriously out of ideas haha

[Awervilos]

i have same issue

Автор сообщения: Zerindo

When I try launching it on steam it loads in an empty EA window and for a moment it says that the game is launching. Shortly after it goes back to the Launch button as if the game didnt start at all and I'm back on the normal EA app window. Launching it through EA didnt work either. Having EA closed while launching BF2 on Steam didn't and the same goes when steam is closed while launching it through EA.


Anyone encountered the same issue with a possible solution? I'm seriously out of ideas haha

Same prob :/

[slave_1]

They have a new EA app, its even called EA App, Steam tries to lauch via Origin which is NOP. The way to do it is to load the new EA App, install it, launch it it will detect SWBF2, launch it there, it will ask you to link to your Steam account, do that, you get a verification mail, then it will lauch Steam and since its running already the game will launch. You have to launch it in the new EA app which will launch it from Steam. Steam can't do it because it tries to launch Origin still.

[Holymoly]

Автор сообщения: slave_1

They have a new EA app, its even called EA App, Steam tries to lauch via Origin which is NOP. The way to do it is to load the new EA App, install it, launch it it will detect SWBF2, launch it there, it will ask you to link to your Steam account, do that, you get a verification mail, then it will lauch Steam and since its running already the game will launch. You have to launch it in the new EA app which will launch it from Steam. Steam can't do it because it tries to launch Origin still.

when i press play on steam it works but takes like 10 min to launch it but if you press play on ea app it tries to redownload itself all over again which makes no sense. I think its ea's way to try and kill this game so they have a reason to shut down the servers on pc so they can concentrate more resources towards barfield 2042.

[sudospacewizard]

this is now fixed for me (linux - proton experimental required)

[Holymoly]

Автор сообщения: Zerindo

When I try launching it on steam it loads in an empty EA window and for a moment it says that the game is launching. Shortly after it goes back to the Launch button as if the game didnt start at all and I'm back on the normal EA app window. Launching it through EA didnt work either. Having EA closed while launching BF2 on Steam didn't and the same goes when steam is closed while launching it through EA.


Anyone encountered the same issue with a possible solution? I'm seriously out of ideas haha

found a solution so if you open ea app go to steam and verify game files then open file where battlefrontii is located open it and wait about 5 mins the game will eventually start dont know why but it worked for me even though it still says play just wait and it will start.

[EspKillerAceUK]

all battlefield games including bf2042, bf1, bf5 and bf4 crash few minutes into a game... I tried everything ... installs reinstalls etc... my games just closes down soon after starting a game without message or info on crash... just quits .

[brocbar]

Автор сообщения: GravityKills

Try launching the game through Frosty Mod Manager (No Mods) and see if it works. I had the same issue with PvZ GW2 not launching and apparently I just launched it through Frosty Mod Manager without mods and it worked like a charm

Works ..

[GravityKills]

I also do recommend you turn off frosty fix as this launching issue may be the reason for that

[Sharov1989]

привет всем я купил игру недавно и загрузил на свой аккаунт....но она нихрена не запускается. привязал к учетной записи ea но и потом не запустилась....выходит меня обманули и игра не рабочая? в таком случае я затребую возврат денежных средств

[MegaDeth]

Автор сообщения: GravityKills

Try launching the game through Frosty Mod Manager (No Mods) and see if it works. I had the same issue with PvZ GW2 not launching and apparently I just launched it through Frosty Mod Manager without mods and it worked like a charm

I managed to track down part of the problem, and likely what FrosyModManager is fixing for some people.

Both Battlefront 2 and Battlefront 1 need to be updated with some symbolic links, likely caused by the change to the EA App from Origin.

When Frosty is applying the needed conversions to run the game for the "first time" (likely what the EA App does too) it eventually fails if the game is set up on an exFAT formatted partition instead of an NTFS one.

Check if the disk which houses the game's installation is partitioned as exFAT, and if yes consider moving the installation to an NTFS one (possibly temporarily, for the initial file modifications to be applied once).

[MegaDeth]

Update on the above.

After moving the game to an NTFS disk, grabbing the latest Frosty Mon Manager (6.2 did not work), disabling my VPN, after logging into steam and EA Desktop, and running the game through Frosty 6.3 it ran...

[Wagon Wheel]

I get this problem too. I just keep retrying it. Or restart and retry. It eventualy works.

[=(eGO)= Vengeance]

What worked for me was finding the EA App folder which had a program file called "EA Updater". I double clicked on EA Updater and a pop-up window opened up saying that the app was being updated to a new version. Once the update was complete, I was able to open up the EA App. The game also now loads/opens through Steam too. I'm surprised the EA App does doesn't have an auto-update feature - ?

[jony]

The game launches fine but it launches through EA and I can't unlock any achievements.

[GravityKills]

Автор сообщения: GravityKills

Try launching the game through Frosty Mod Manager (No Mods) and see if it works. I had the same issue with PvZ GW2 not launching and apparently I just launched it through Frosty Mod Manager without mods and it worked like a charm

also turn off frosty fix if no other ea game is launching!