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patoll

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Registered: 2025-05-22

Posts: 2

Battlefront II via Steam not working

If I start Battlefront II via Steam, it opens the EA App, runs the EA App installer and then proceeds to open the EA App and show a Windows saying "preparing game". That window then dissapears and the EA App minimizes. One or two minutes later the EA App shortly opens and then crashes.

I have already tried all Proton versions form 6 to 10, GE Proton 7-55, GE Proton 10-3, Hotfix and Experimental, some crash the game earlier, some later.

I also tried using Proton 7 while installing the EA App, then stopping the game and using Experimental to start the game. That actually worked once, but the game didnt detect my keyboard, only my controller and upon restarting the game/trying this again it didnt work anymore.

Running the game/EA App through Lutris isnt really an option as the play button in the EA App is just grayed out and there being no install option due to the game being managed by Steam.

I Also already tried switching from Wayland (Hyprland) to Gnome under XOrg with no effect.

Does anyone know how I can get the game to run consistently?

Sorry for accidentally posting this twice

Last edited by patoll (2025-05-22 14:55:07)

alejandro

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Registered: 2019-12-30

Posts: 4

Re: Battlefront II via Steam not working

I have a similar issue, I have been playing for a couple of days and all of the sudden (even in the same day as my last gameplay, without updating the system) I only see the "preparing game" and then nothing. I saw once "rendering vulkan shaders" (or something similar, can't remember) but then nothing

ankabo

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Registered: 2025-07-14

Posts: 4

Re: Battlefront II via Steam not working

I would try to install "bottles" and there install the EA App (its pre configured).
Give it a try, because I dont trust a gaming platform that is calling another gaming platform ;-)

yilmaz

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Registered: 2025-01-17

Posts: 4

Re: Battlefront II via Steam not working

Having the same issue, it was working yesterday, and today it stopped working. I've tried everything from deleting the wine prefix, trying various Proton versions including GE, gamescope (it was working until i tried running the game with gamescope, it didn't work, but it continued not working after I stopped using gamescope), downgrading the kernel to 6.14.9 along with the Nvidia drivers, nothing fixed it. EA app says preparing game, nothing happens for 5 minutes while Steam still says the game is running, then either the EA app opens again for a split second and closes, or nothing happens and it stays like that forever.

I'm seeing a lot of recent reports in ProtonDB about the game suddenly stopping working, but seeing as this happened even without updating anything for a lot of people, I'm confused.