How to fix the stupid broken EA app on Steam Deck
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- The #EA app is a massive nuisance, and even though Valve fixed the install with #Proton Experimental, it still breaks itself on #SteamDeck. Here's a workaround fix for now to get your games working again. Here's the first video on the initial fix from Valve and how to set Proton Experimental if you missed it: • EA app FIXED on Steam ...
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Steps:
- Set EA games to Proton Experimental. Properties - Compatibility - Tick the box - Select Proton Experimental.
- Make a backup of save files (IMPORTANT) as they might be removed during this. I cannot stress this enough, find where the save files are and copy them somewhere safe. JUST DO IT. You can find the Windows folders for games in the “compatdata” folder, and then the ID of the Steam game.
For example: /.steam/root/steamapps/compatdata/*game_id*/
- In the games Properties - Developer - Delete Proton Files
- Launch the game again
This is the easiest fix I've found so far, that doesn't require the use of Protontricks or swapping Proton versions that could cause other issues (like a broken Proton Prefix) or anything else. Not all games need a save backup, but it's best not to rely on Steam Cloud (and some games don't have it).
EA needs to stop making us log in through their crappy app just to play games we bought. $60-$70 for a game, and if their servers are down, we just can’t access it. We’re basically paying full price for a rental.
best fix is to never buy anything from EA
Jedi fallen order good tho :(
I havnt play anything with ea logo at start for long time now... Not that i hate ea ... Just dont find anything they make intresting anymore all same gameplay no innovations.
@@totallynotaliar9912 and someone bought it for 8.99€ a few days ago am I right :)
@@tigrankhachaturian8983 Nah, had it since it came out haha
@@totallynotaliar9912 im not saying EA publishes bad games, they are just a rotten company
dude I was legitimately panicking because I didn't know what to do and was about to give up until finding your fix, omg your an actual life saver!
I have spent 6 HOURS trying to figure out what Battlefront 2 stopped working. You sir, saved the day! Consider me subscribed!
Kinda wish EA was a bit more cooperative with Valve on the Steam Deck and Linux/SteamOS considering the history of the two, with EA being the publisher of The Orange Box back in 2007. Hell, they can hire someone or some people to work on a Linux client for the EA App itself which packages a patched version of Wine intended for EA games similar to Proton.
that would be the dream... but the dream is impossible.
Alas that is most definitely true
To be honest the cooperation surely turn sour once EA find out Valve just want to learn how to publish themselves
@@anonneymous9949 🤔 probably it might
My "easy" solution is open the game once with proton 6.3.8 and somehow this proton allows the ea app to update. Then it gets stuck into Grey ea app screen... Close it and then open it with experimental. Now everything should work normally
Legend
Wow this fixed the issue for Fifa 22, thanks a ton
@@DeepakCG you're welcome 😎
@@jamesy666 😎👍
Thanks so much, I swear I tried 6.3.8 at some point
2 things:
1. This also works on Sony games that hit this issue. SackBoy: A Big Adventure has some proton experimental issues. So deleting the proton files and going back to Proton 7.x.x works a charm
2. If I buy a second Steam Deck, does that make me a Double Decker?
🤣 yup to number 2 I'd make you a triple Decker
Yummy i like double deckers! (It's a chocolate bar in the UK)
@@5izzy557 ah made by the great Cadbury I presume
@@5izzy557 Yes! I've had those before, so good!
Man i keep coming back to your fixes and you save me every time. Thanks a lot!
Thank you SO MUCH. The only solution that actually worked AND you showed exactly how to find things like the developer button (which had frustrated me before because developer mode wasn't on for me)
Mass Effect LE is such a good candidate for Steam Cloud saving but EA/Bioware couldn't be bothered. The least they could have done is do it through the EA app like Rockstar does with their own launcher but nope, as usual, the move from Origin to EA Desktop has no benefit to the customer.
Luckily through my testing (and the game that truly caused me to make this video *grumbles*)...ME LE didn't need me to backup the save files, but the warning is still good to have so no one can blame me for losing it :P
Having just bought Titanfall 2 and nearly lost my mind installing it, this was very helpful. Thank you.
i dont have the compatdata folder....
One of my Favorite channels for the Steam Deck. Keep up the awesome work.
Finally managed to get Mass Effect Legendary Edition working with this tip. Thank you!
Well I followed your directions and my game still won’t load what should I do
Crying in your bed
Hey GOL, I gotta say. U the man, standing next to the man standing next to another man who wishes he was like you!!!!! Jus a brief breakdown. Day bfor yesterday I spent 5 hrs tryna fix. Revalidating the files worked for me as a last ditch effort cuz I was about to mail it in. Yesterday I spent about another 6 then I found u. Not sure what made me click on it cuz allot of these videos captions say the same thing. But it never works. I had jus deleted the games to reinstall it and as I was waiting I found your video. U know I cursed out loud when I seen ur method. I was like damn I could’ve tried it bfor I deleted. Anyhow once the game reinstalled, which took forever cuz I was chillen outside. I tried it and wouldn’t u kno. A miracle bfor Xmas!!! Thank u brother. Worked like a charm. Jus wanted to pay my respects!!
Hello after pfx , and the c drive what exactly am I suppose to do? Delete something or?
1 year later the Delete Proton Files no longer works but switching to desktop mode and starting the game up there allows you to navigate through the EA app install software that pops up in a separate window. Gaming mode on the steam deck for sure isn't made to handle multiple windows it seems
Or rather multibillion companies that force you to use their proprietary software don't give a damn about mentioned software being useless and not working properly with every platform they sell their games at
Unfortunately, this method doesn’t help either, the game simply doesn’t start from desktop mode, although the EA app starts
awesome! I have one concern. If i purchased the game straight through Steam and not EA Games, would it be easier to set up and get going? Thanks in advance!
No, it would have been the same. All EA games launch through the EA Desktop launcher, it doesn't matter if you bought them through Steam or Origins.
It didn't work for me, but it's nice seeing this kind of videos. Ty
I was able to play fifa21 on the deck once after that i couldnt load origin because it wanted to update but the installation kept failing every time i tried to run it
I’ve done both the proton exp and then this and my MELE still won’t launch, any newer fixes? It starts to install the app and then it stops
Nvm I got it. Thank you for the tut
where would the proton files be stored? I am running ubuntu but i got the same issue
Developer mode is ON in Steam Deck game mode menu. But I don't get any of those options come up when i right click on the game. Just the usual shortcut menu. Any Ideas? is there a developer mode that i have to turn on in desktop mode too ?Doesn't matter how much i love a game, I'm never putting myself through this shite again.
Funny fact, i also tried running EA app on Windows 11 on steam Deck and is the only launcher that is buggy as hell. They really need to optimize their new EA app.
So unfortunately this didn’t work for me. I’m getting “failed to launch game. An error on our part caused the launch to fail. Try again in a little bit” then the app crashes. Haven’t found a fix I’m about to uninstall the whole game but I don’t want to. I have so much DLC
Hello looking for some help please! I am trying this fix on Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order. I already backed up my save files as mentioned. But the developer option is not shown accessing the cog while the game is selected. I also made sure "enabled developer mode" was checked but I still don't see that option. Please help!
EDIT: After selecting developer mode to "on" and rebooting the deck, I was able to get this to work.
Thank you so much, and I have subbed!!
Any chance you could let me know how to set up the EA app games to save on my micro SD card? I'm not very savvy with this and I cannot figure out how to do this. They currently only save to the internal HD
I'm having the same issue and do not have enough internal storage left.
Thank you, always coming through
I am here to serve, my lord.
I just bought battlefield 2042. I installed the EA-App and logged in and then I did what you said. It even got to the battlefield loading screen, but it just stays there for a minute or so and then it shows the steam loading screen and kicks me. pls helppp
This doesn't really help me since I have the EA App as a non-Steam shortcut and I am having this problem. I just want to install Battlefront II on my Deck and yet it seems to break whenever EA updates it. I know there was a simple fix of changing something in the command line but I cannot seem to remember or find what it was.
Mine just fails to launch
I launched the game in offline mode before I left Wi-Fi and now when I’m home it doesn’t work. Like wtf idk what I did wrong
I hate any games with additional log-ins. Especially anything EA!
I found this video very helpful to find save files for games. However, I need some assistance please. I was playing Fallen Order with my wifi off over the weekend and the game crashed and then i got the steam logo of death. So I deleted my proton file to fix it, which it did. But then my save file was at the 2.5 hours and not my 10+ hours. I tried downloading a save file for the game based on a file that was around the same area of the game that i was at.
By using your video, i switched the save file with the one I downloaded but when I start up the game it still takes me to the 2.5 hour mark. Any suggestions??
So what does this mean for TitianFall 2 Northstar?
I can't get past Link2EA. I get to the window where it has a button to link EA account to Steam, click "Link Accounts", and the button does nothing. Tried it on my PC too, and same thing. South Park was right, EA really does just piss in our faces. I'm to the point where I'll never buy an EA game again.
Thx for the video! for me just remove, re-download and reinstall the app and it works automatically.
This was extremely helpful! Thank you!
thank you! your videos helped me get battlefield to work❤
No problem! Happy to know it helped :)
I bought unbound on my steam deck , stupid ea app is not working . Keeps on saying link my ea account and start over.
This worked perfectly for me, thank you!!
The developer option isn’t available on steamdeck
NOWi Just need to find a fix to The SIms 4 completly locking up and freezing.
I wanna see someone do some testing, but I assume if you could find a way to disable the EA Overlay, that would potentially fix the game.
didnt work for me, still getting “something went wrong… to continue linking your ea account…”
Damn that sh#t is broken, but a legend over here helped out, thanks man! If you have more games, like me battlefront 2 and mass effect, you only gave to hassle once. I would recommend to do it with the Multiplayer game as there all data will be saved on EA servers anyway. So you can be sure to have the Singleplayer save files in no danger. Thx again man, take my subscription!
Will this fix the internet launcher requirement to play games offline?
hey i have backup the files, but when I restored it on the sims 4 steam deck , it won't load the data help me
Im having the same issue with sims 4 on steam deck!
This worked , thank you so much 👌🏾
Well, in between, it sadly seems to be impossible to fix it. Tried various versions of Wine and various different configurations... dunno how EA always breaks stuff (I mean, the EA App also works badly quite often on Windows (!), according to some friends using it)... 😐
Does anyone know how to install ubisoft connect? when i install it i cannot connect after logging in.
Does anyone know how to play these ea games offline?? When I try to play any of these games I'm prompted to log in, even when I launch on steam offline. I know there's an offline mode. But seriously doesn't give me an option just asks me to log in. I'm using steam deck
You have to have it connected to wifi hella dumb i know!! Then after u connect it and the game loads u can turn off ur hot spot. What sucks is u have to this like every hour, if not a little error mesagge will pop in the middle of the screen
Hey Linux do you know how to play bf3 online on steam deck if you can can you drop tutorial
5 months and its still not fixed
Absolute savior, thanks dude!
You're welcome! I have to keep doing it for Mass Effect it's quite annoying. I'm sure Valve will eventually find a fix.
Fifa 23 doesn't work, i tried this method but nothing happens, after few minutes it appears "wine is not supported" and everything closes. Now i bought fifa and honestly it's a big problem. They will do something to fix as fifa is one of the most played games?
FIFA is won’t work due to the anti-cheat. It’s up to EA to fix it.
@@gamingonlinux thanks. do you know if it will be something that will solve soon or not? so "wine is not supported" has nothing to do with it.
Now if only ea WOULD FIX THEIR FICKING APP! none of this would be necessary
I'm playing NFS Heat on my Garuda KDE installation. The game has been installed before the new EA App.
Sometimes I get a connection problem with the Origin launcher.
So I backed up the game app ID folder, then it will automatically install the EA App on the next launch.
The problem with the EA App is the game runs without the Steam Overlay and that makes my gamepad unrecognized. So I'll stay with the Origin launcher as long as I can.
The connection problem is usually fixed by using mobile data instead of Wi-Fi, or by using a VPN.
Will this work for madden 23 on steamos?
EA app won't run at all if I try to force compatibility with Proton
Will this fix Battlefront 2 crashes?
how do you back up the files, would be good to show the whole process. im. first time user and really struggling with this. im pretty close to selling the machine
Find the save files, copy and paste them somewhere else like your home folder so you know where they are.
@@gamingonlinux I fixed it, you have unistall fifa 22 and then reinstall it and then it works.
you also need to register with ea app but its all working now.
2:30 - sorry to correct you, but that isn't "fake". It's just a Wine layer completely functional as a Microsoft OS but specifically configured for, in that case, Battlefield 1.
I know what Wine is lol, it’s just a figure of speech. Faked, as in, not actually Windows.
this video convinced me to go to the pirate bay
My recent interaction with EA has me blacklisting all their games, with no future attempt to buy or play any. Long story short, i hadnt played Apex Legends in about 2 years. I recently purchased a Steam Deck, with Apex in mind to play on it. After installing Apex and launching it, and attempting to join a match, i was kicked with the message "Your account was Banned. Reason:Banned". So i contacted EA/Origin and put in a case to hopefully be resolved. They declined and closed the case with no reason given. I go to my ban history and it states that ive never been banned(have no history.) Crappy Company with crappy policies. I wont EVER buy another title that EA/Origin has touched.
I just use the origin client. It still works and doesn't break every other day.
Thanks for making this vid! Battlefront 1 still won’t start for me on Steam Deck. I tried your fix but it still fails to launch and kicks me back to the library. Open to other suggestions. Thanks.
hello did you find a fix for this ?
Any fix for this?
Thank you so much!
how do i delete proton files on pc?
Appreciate it like always
My compatdata folder is completely empty wtf do i do😭
you probably have an sd card inserted. There are two compdata folders
Man thank you so much
It worked but unfortunately i couldn't find the save files so i lost them
I have no idea where to find them i tried following your steps but didn't succeed
I don't even know how they look like
Can you please help me with that
Unfortunately, this method doesn’t help either, the game simply doesn’t start from desktop mode, although the EA app starts
Yeah I have the same issue:/
How install EA play?
I've been a long time subscriber to ea play because it was only $30 for a year, good deal imo. But after getting the steam deck and having so many issues with the damn app i'm done with it now. And they raised the price. At first I understood because I was paying a subscription that it needed internet, but after unsubbing and wanting to outright buy a few titles I learned that all their games require internet access even the singleplayer ones. Then they wonder why people pirate games. I personally don't pirate because I think its an even bigger middle finger to these companies to not even engage with there products in any capacity, and I also have plenty of other games to play anyways so I see no need for me to go through the hassle of trying to figure out how to pirate a copy since I don't completely know how to. I'm sure in about an hour or even less of googling I could learn how, but I cant be bothered when as I said I have plenty of other games available.
Anyone know how to fix the wine nor supported issues?
I appreciate your video but this did not work for me.
I just got through playing mass effect legendary and i had no issues what so ever.
I didn’t even have to tinker anything
Amazing man!
Now I can play my EA games, I thought I have throw 4€ for the trash, but no!
Perfect!
How you add game? Ive to click ea app then game
You don't use the EA app directly, this is for games that have it on Steam.
@@gamingonlinux so if i have bf on „origin” ive to play from ea app ?
Comment & Like for the algorithm.
2:25 - it's a possibility but I would not take it for granted. EA is trash when it comes down the road for Linux based systems. Also, the only decent way to use their client is with Heroic that have a quicker and easier fix for this issue: uninstall the client, download the .exe from their official website and then reinstall from it through Heroic manager. Also, any games that doesn't support cloud saves (like The Sims4) requires a manual backup before that, otherwise you lose anything anyways. They are annoying and appalling, alongside the Valve customer service that partially support Linux based systems with any LTS kernel in their common sense way. They simply decided to support Ubuntu LTS for desktop and maybe Arch based for your Steam Deck due to their Steam OS. They are also illogical because these references (especially Ubuntu) are framed to a vision of 15 years ago. Linux based systems (any) are evolved from a long time, independently from just gaming.
I'm getting a purple infinite screen...
Thank you !!!!
I can't play a single player game offline which defeats the entire purpose of this
another one for you guys after trying everything it still didnt work so i ran it on proton 7.0 and it worked
Does this also work for desktop?
You need to manually remove the prefix folder but yup it works
Since when does Mass Effect Legendary Edition or better yet This stupid EA App need online internet to play the original 3 Mass effect games? I can’t play the game at all at work. This really sucks extremely frustrating and stupid.
Hi bro! Did you solve problems with Mass Effect on Steam Deck? Can you play well?
I assume valve will fix this soon anyway. Im getting the steam deck for Christmas and wondering if it will be fixed by then
Not on Valve unfortunately, they cant control when companies change installers or make them unfriendly to Steam Deck.
@@TOMfULLERy3011 I heard by someone valve could release a patch for it
@@landont.5400 Then you heard wrong.
@@landont.5400 They could make some type of work-a-round, sure... but they don't know what EA is going to do with their updates, so their work-a-round can break at any time... they would have to keep chasing EA and figure out what they are doing and figure out some work-a-round
Is happen to fifa22 as well or not .?
No that issue is EA’s new anti-cheat that EA would need to fix for Linux
This works, but I would second the warning about backing up your files!
Bit of a PC gaming novice, and I didn't realise that the game save files and proton files are linked. Now having to make up the 12 hours of progress I lost in Mass Effect Legendary Edition because I never backed up -_-
Odd, I’ve been doing this repeatedly and haven’t lost any save files for Mass Effect LE for my entire play through.
@@gamingonlinux the only thing I can think of was the fact I hadn't actually came out of the game for the best part of a week - I'd just suspended it and left the deck off (if that makes sense).
hey i have backup the files, but when I restored it on the sims 4 steam deck , it won't load the data help me
Thanks G 🎉
THE WAY I FIXED IT WAS TO RETURN ALL THIER GAMES.....THIS COMPANY MAKES SICK.
For anyone else that just wants another approach. Reinstalling the game completely and using latest proton GE (7.41 currently) makes it work like a charm. I only tested for nfs heat and it's way better, it just takes a bit longer to start up each time but it's fine overall
There's absolutely no need to do that, and takes far longer than doing this.
Stupid approach, downloading 100GB when not needed.
@@UmVtCg which part of my approach said you need to install 100gb? For what? You just use another "compatibility tool" that's it Wtf.
@@cis9222 proton GE downloads shaders while you are playing, meaning that if you play for like 3 hours you could possibly have downloaded a full gig of shaders and so on, as for the protons provided by steam they compact the shaders when installing the game so that it doesn't download while playing and possibly cause stutters
atleast i think thats what it is
Goat thank you
So annoying but thank you so much
Thanks
Just pirate the damn thing. At this point it's morally right to do
Why does this company have to make life so difficult? Can someone answer this?
I haven't had any problem since linking ea APP account with steam
Bypasses the login screen of death
Made this, but i need to do that everytime i start the game