Star Wars Battlefront 2 Not Starting

https://0x0.st/8-8R.log

Was working through out the week - Pressing play results in a black window pop up and immediate close

awake-maroon•1/9/25, 1:22 AM

did anything change between the game working and the game not working? maybe a proton - experimental update? proton experimental is... wel... experimental, not meant for every day usage

awake-maroon•1/9/25, 1:23 AM

proton experimental is a bad choice to run games, it can get updates and break your games, you should always use a version of proton you can control

precious-lavenderOP•1/9/25, 2:30 AM

Not that I know of. Played a bit last night and after starting my SD up this afternoon it no longer works. I tried changing it off of experimental as well but no dice. I got my SD very recently, would it be possible for you to tell me how to downgrade or use a version I can control

Aawake-maroon proton experimental is a bad choice to run games, it can get updates and break y...

precious-lavenderOP•1/9/25, 2:44 AM

I believe it also defaulted to experimental as the other wine paths weren’t compatible or “couldn’t find” something

awake-maroon•1/9/25, 3:05 AM

Try this:

first, if you have saves or something you want to keep, look for them inside

/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/STAR WARS Battlefront II Celebration Edition

/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/STAR WARS Battlefront II Celebration Edition

and make a backup

then, rename that folder to something else
then, in heroic's sidebar, in the wine manager section, install wine-ge-latest
then, in the game's settings, select that wine in the wine tab
then launch the game

if it still fails share a new log, if it works you may want to put the saves back to where they were and you can delete that folder that was renamed

Aawake-maroon Try this: - first, if you have saves or something you want to keep, look for the...

precious-lavenderOP•1/9/25, 3:36 AM

Not sure if this matters but I got this pop up when trying the new wine

precious-lavenderOP•1/9/25, 3:38 AM

I’m thinking this is the issue…

precious-lavenderOP•1/9/25, 3:40 AM

Just verified on my pc that the same authentication pop up was there as well, but I was able to sign in to verify my license… not sure how to do that here

awake-maroon•1/9/25, 3:49 AM

hmmm never seen that, I haven't used the ea app in months

precious-lavenderOP•1/9/25, 3:50 AM

Unfortunately it is tied to my Battlefront so yay

Aawake-maroon hmmm never seen that, I haven't used the ea app in months

precious-lavenderOP•1/9/25, 11:55 PM

Hey man sorry to bother but is it possible to download Origin/EA app om steam

precious-lavenderOP•1/9/25, 11:55 PM

SD*

precious-lavenderOP•1/9/25, 11:56 PM

I cant run the exe

awake-maroon•1/10/25, 1:00 AM

no idea, I don't really use any EA game

if the installer that you can download from the EA site doesn't work I don't know any alternative

nursing-lime•1/10/25, 1:06 AM

I use Lutris for EA

Nnursing-lime I use Lutris for EA

precious-lavenderOP•1/10/25, 8:45 AM

Solved - Thank you both!

popular-magenta•6/10/25, 8:21 AM

I tried with both Heroic and Lutris : same problem. The EA app sometimes doesn't start whatever version of win or proton I use.

popular-magenta•6/10/25, 8:21 AM

(FYI, I own the game on Epic)

popular-magenta•6/10/25, 3:13 PM

What is quite difficult to understand is why it works sometimes ... even without updating anything. Today it hasn't worked at all but I guess it comes from some update on CachyOS side.
Does Heroic update the EA App ? Can it be forced manually ?
Any good way to cleanup some caches ?

popular-magenta•6/11/25, 6:35 AM

Game's log here https://0x0.st/8EaD.log

Star Wars Battlefront 2 Not Starting

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