Battlefield 1 won't launch

[706143]

RAM: Klevv Cras V 64 GB 6400 CL32
GPU: Integrated
Motherboard: ROG B850I
CPU: Ryzen 9 9900X


I’ve played this game for around 220 hours on my laptop with zero issues. The game is installed on an external SSD. I plugged the SSD into my desktop PC and was able to play it once without any problems.


Since yesterday, it won’t launch anymore. I’ve tried everything I could think of. When I launch it through Steam, EA App opens, then the game shows the initial loading screen for a few seconds, closes without an error, and the EA App reopens. Steam also reports the game as “stopped running.”


If it was a system issue, why did it work the first time? I didn’t change anything in the system since then.
Any ideas or help would be appreciated

 

[K7SEM]

- Minimum vram of this game is 2GB so increase vram iGPU to 2GB/4GB through the bios
- Reinstall the game but make sure every anti virus/malware turned off before launching
the game
- Try older driver

 

[706143]

-iGPU VRAM was already set to 2GB — increased it to 16GB manually from BIOS.
-Fully reinstalled the game with all antivirus/malware protection turned off.
-Tried multiple old AMD drivers using clean install (DDU).
-Reinstalled EA Anti-Cheat.
-Installed latest DirectX + all Visual C++ Redistributables.
-Game is legit, installed through EA App.
-Windows is up to date.
-No background apps interfering.

I've literally tried everything I could think of, but nothing works — the game just refuses to launch.

 

[W3RN3R]

When reinstalling the C++ redistributable 2013 and 2015 click on repair install for both, if not working, try installing those from the Steamworks Common Redistributables folder under steam/steamapps, rinse and repeat.

 

[706143]

Thanks for the suggestion.

I’ve already tried both the repair and reinstall options for the 2013 and 2015 C++ redistributables (x86 and x64). The game is installed on an external SSD, and my launcher is on the internal drive. But I don’t think that’s the issue, since the same setup works perfectly fine when I plug the SSD into my laptop — no issues at all. The crash only happens on my desktop, and it doesn't even throw an error code — it just closes instantly after launch.

At this point, I really believe the issue is with EA’s terrible launcher or some weird incompatibility on desktop systems.
If everything is code, then there must be a fix somewhere, right?

 

[W3RN3R]

Have you tried disabling SAM and SMT to only use the main 12 cores, not something you should or want to be doing, but just to check of course.

 

[706143]

Hey, thanks for the suggestion. I tried disabling both SMT and SAM from BIOS — still no luck. The EA App refuses to launch properly or crashes immediately. My setup is clean and fresh, running a Ryzen 9 9900X on a B850 board, with a freshly installed Windows and minimal extra software. It’s frustrating to have to mess with CPU settings just to get EA’s app to work.

If you have any other suggestions or know if this is a known issue with EA and Zen 5 CPUs, I’d appreciate the help.

 

[DarkDreams]

A couple ideas:
1. Have you checked Windows Event viewer to see if there are Application errors logged when the game crashes?
2. The game settings file is stored locally in "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Battlefield 1\settings\" and the EA App supports cloud sync, maybe it copied over the settings from your Laptop and thats why it crashes? Maybe worth looking into
3. The game uses Denuvo Anti Tamper. That might also get upset with different machines using the same install? Not sure, though I consider that software garbage anyway, but not much one can do.

 

[W3RN3R]

I see you did reinstall the game so then it's not a drm issue. Maybe reinstalling the game to your main OS drive where the ea app is located could be something to check, just copy the main game folder from external ssd to your ea games folder without needing to re download the game.