Just bought BF3.. Can't open Origin!

[SickoJay]

Hey.. Just bought BF3. Donwloaded Origin, installed it, its on my desktop, I double click it nothing happens... Rebooted/ reinstalled at least 5 times. Still nothing, turned off firewalls, still nothing.

Running windows 7 64 bit.

Please help.

 

[d_brennen]

Odd one, as much as I dislike Origin it has never failed to open. Have you tried running it as Admin?

 

[SickoJay]

Yeah, I have, no result. Its not showing up in my Task manager either, its like something is stopping it from actually opening, but its not my firewall/antivirus as I turned them off and it still isn't working.

 

[Yaayuh!]

Welcome to the joys of origin... It's rubbish and annoying.

Anyone know how to stop the "featured" games box appearing?

 

[SickoJay]

Yeah but I'm trying to figure out why I can't open it.

 

[kierenharrold]

Hey.. Just bought BF3. Donwloaded Origin, installed it, its on my desktop, I double click it nothing happens... Rebooted/ reinstalled at least 5 times. Still nothing, turned off firewalls, still nothing.

Running windows 7 64 bit.

Please help.

This is actually a pretty common issue.

How i solved it.

1. run origin as admin
2. validate the install and it will re-download any corrupt parts
3. Make sure you open all the necessary ports for bf3 (google them)
4. make sure your firewall is not blocking it.
5. update drivers for your graphics card.

the main one is the ports, if origin can't talk to the servers i can't get it to load.

f you are playing on PC, please enable the following online ports on your connection:
TCP: 80, 443, 9988, 20000-20100, 22990, 17502, 42127
UDP: 3659, 14000-14016, 22990-23006, 25200-25300

edit: make sure TCP 9988 is open. Opening this port solved most of my issues about not being able to load origin and the game.

 

[SickoJay]

How do I validate the install? :S

Everything else is up to date.

 

[kierenharrold]

you have to be able to get into origin first. Try opening the ports and hopefully that will allow you to open origin.

to validate the install you right click on the cover art image of BF3 and theres an option. (it only validates the install of the game and not origin)

 

[SickoJay]

Well I haven't even been able to start downloading BF3 yet seeing as origin wont open. :[

 

[kierenharrold]

oh ok,

have you installed it on your OS drive, i believe origin now only works on the OS drive for some strange reason.

try compatibility mode. right click on the origin icon and click properties. Compatability tab, then click 'Run this program in compatibility mode for'

the select vista, and see if that works

 

[Witcher1979]

TBH this is a good thing, just delete BF3 and go back to BF2 or BC2

Joking aside I hope you fix it m8.

 

[SickoJay]

Haha thanks voorhees!

Edit - tried ALL the compatibility options, no dice. WTF is wrong with this!

 

[SB118]

Torrent it, it'll work no problem.

 

[SickoJay]

Torrent it, it'll work no problem.

Ugggh, don't bother posting if your not willing to give a suggestion.

 

[Enzo]

Download. Chrome and set as default browser.

 

[SB118]

What? I gave a suggestion, you just don't like it.

 

[SickoJay]

Download. Chrome and set as default browser.

Already have chrome as a browser.

 

[Randomface74]

It might be just really slowly decrypting a game?

 

[SickoJay]

It might be just really slowly decrypting a game?

I don't have any games to decrypt. I haven't been able to GET on origin yet! I downloaded it a few hours ago still haven't got into it yet.

 

[SB118]

Nothing daft like UAC sitting on the exe blocking it before it gets a chance is it? Make another admin account and see if it loads.