Battlefield 2042 How to fix BF2042 Not Starting on the very first launch without turning off Control Flow Guard, and other quick fixes.

1. How To Make The Game Launch The First Time, Every Time.

1. Ensure that Controlled Folder Access under Windows Security, Virus & Threat Protection, Ransomware Protection is either turned Off, or that the game and EA AntiCheat are whitelisted from the Block History here. Also, that OneDrive is not synchronizing the Documents folder under its Choose Folders section.

2. Make sure you allowed the game's main components through the Windows Defender Firewall if prompted. If it did not prompt them, the following could necessitate adding them:

BF2042.exe. (Install directory.)

EAAnticheat.GameServiceLauncher.exe. (Also in the game's install directory.)

Both .exes under C:/Program Files/EA/AC/.

The EA App in general.

3. Okay, now for the real breakthrough fix I had found.

Right-click on the WI-Fi or Ethernet icon in the Taskbar, or open the Settings app in Windows.

Open Network & Internet settings.

Open Change Adapter Options. This should open a Control Panel dialogue for them.

Right-click on the currently used network adapter. Click Properties.

The most important step: Uncheck Reliable Multicast Protocol if it is enabled. Click OK.

You are done with Section 1. See if the third subsection here helps with finally being able to launch the game, and no longer being infinitely stuck in the seasonal Startup Loading screen due to the game being unable to connect and phone home.

2. Why Does The In-Game Store Not Work?

This is because of two things.

1. The Steam Overlay must be enabled.

2. The most important part: The EA App's In-Game Overlay must also be enabled.

Why is needing both overlays enabled to make the in-game store work the case?

When you select the in-game purchasing option, the game will first call the EA App Overlay. The EA App Overlay will then be used to call the Steam Overlay to open the In-Game Purchase Confirmation window in the Web Browser.

Now go get the Ultimate Shortcut Bundle to save yourself time and stress in grinding this game, by replacing the stress and shame of potential time cost with the stress and shame of monetary cost. Ideally, when the Ultimate Shortcut Bundle is on a promotional sale.

3. What If I Hate Mouse Acceleration —Who Does Not Hate It?—but Do Not Want To Use Raw Input In-Game?

Well, there is a way to turn off mouse acceleration for EVERY game by default, assuming it is not also enabled in their settings, too.

1. Open the Settings App in Windows. Can be found in the Start Menu.

2. Search for Control Panel in its search box.

3. Click on View By in the Control Panel Window, and click either Large Icons or Small Icons. Either will do, so long as it is one of the Icons sorting options. This makes finding things here easier.

4. Click on Mouse.

5. Click on the Pointer Options tab.

6. Uncheck Enhance Pointer Precision, and Apply. Click OK.

You have now globally disabled mouse acceleration by default in the Windows OS, which is the thing that Raw Input in games and other software try to bypass, among other aspects of Windows's mouse handling within the OS. In-Game Mouse Acceleration will still be felt if it is turned on, but at least the OS is not compounding on it, and it is just limited to the software now.

Now Raw Input can be turned off without causing too much issue. Ideally.

4. AMD Global Graphics Settings, Or How To Stop Them From Needlessly Interfering With Your Games.

1. If you have an AMD Radeon GPU, Open AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition.

2. From its Home screen, Click on Gaming.

3. UNder Gaming, Click on Graphics.

4. NEVER EVER EVER have Anti-Lag+ on, obviously. The regular Anti-Lag is fine, but not the Anti-Lag+ extension of it. Its handling of the rendering pipeline is considered .DLL injection in the blind, and in a way that most anti-cheats do not consider permissible. It should have been disabled by default as of now, but this is being included to account for certain driver versions.

5. Also, Vertical Refresh must be set to an Unless application specifies setting. Off is the default here. Never set it to Always On or Off.

6. Okay, moving on. Under the Advanced drop-down section here. Anti-Aliasing here must be set to Use Application Settings. Also have the Tessellation Settings set to only Use Application Settings as well.

7. Lastly, and this is another important one, Always Turn Off Surface Format Optimization. Its name is a misnomer. What is does is forcibly convert any FP16 shader (Think R16G16B16A16F material shaders, if you remember those from the Source 1 engine) into a format that is easier to render, but has less information in it; that being R11G11B10 shaders. As FP16 shaders are very commonplace and almost a given in usage these days, all this does is screw with most newer games' shader pipelines in ways that they do not expect, and as such, destabilizes them a little. So toggle this slider Off at all times, for each and every time.

8. Now click on Reset Shader Cache, Perform Reset. That may cover it for most games, but...

9. To make Battlefield 2042's Shader Cache rebuild, Open the File Explorer. Go to Documents/Battlefield 2042/cache. Ctrl+A, Delete. Relaunch the game and play through a few maps to rebuild it.

You are done with this section.

5. Why Do The Keybinds Just Have To Be Shared? Why Can't I Clear Them Completely?

When selecting a new key to bind to an existing bind, the Escape key must be held for at least three seconds minimum. Only then will the selected keybind be fully cleared.

Conclusion.

That should cover most up-front things for how to make Battlefield 2042 and more a kind of seamless experience, or as much of one as this game can be considering what it is and how it has been handled developmentally. If you have any further questions or concerns, feel free to leave replies about it below.

Whether I can replicate what problems you may be experiencing is uncertain, and not guaranteed, however. I may not or will not have the time for that. Keep that in mind.

Until another time.

—TS2.

Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3143834691

How to fix BF2042 Not Starting on the very first launch without turning off Control Flow Guard, and other quick fixes.