Alright, so, I’ve been having this super annoying issue with Battlefield 2042 lately. Every time I tried to fire up the game, I’d get hit with this “unable to load persistence data” error. It was driving me nuts! I just wanted to jump in and play, you know?
First thing I did, like any sane person, was to check the Battlefield 2042 subreddit. I figured I couldn’t be the only one dealing with this, right? And yeah, turns out a bunch of other folks were having the same problem. Lots of discussions, but not a lot of clear solutions. Some people were talking about issues with their video cards, or something called “Control Flow Guard” which sounds way more complicated than it should be. One guy said that this started after his PC froze, then he changed the Valve Index update rate when a game was running. I don’t even have a Valve Index! So this couldn’t be the same situation for me.
I dug around some more, and someone mentioned that they got a DirectX crash when starting the game. They said their video card was “removed” or something. That sounded scary. I checked, but I didn’t have that issue. I even tried to run other games from EA, some crashed and some didn’t. I even updated my graphics drivers, just in case, but no dice.
Then I stumbled upon this one post where a user suggested messing around with this thing called Control Flow Guard (CFG). Apparently, you gotta enable and disable it. It sounded pretty technical, but I was desperate. So I followed the instructions, found CFG in the settings, enabled it, and hit apply. I tried to launch Battlefield again, and this time it gave me some weird message about my graphics card. The post said to ignore it and restart, so I did.
After the restart, I held my breath and launched the game again. And guess what? It actually worked! I was so relieved. I mean, it was a weird fix, and I’m still not entirely sure why it worked, but hey, I’m not complaining.
Here’s what I did, step-by-step, just in case anyone else is having this issue:
- Went deep into my Windows settings.
- Found this thing called “Control Flow Guard” or CFG.
- Enabled it.
- Clicked “Apply.”
- Tried to launch Battlefield 2042.
- Got some error message about my graphics card.
- Ignored the error and restarted my computer.
- Launched the game again, and boom, it worked!
I’m just glad I can finally play the game without pulling my hair out. Hopefully, this helps someone else out there. If you’re having this issue, give it a try. It might just work for you too!
Now, if you will excuse me, I have got some serious gaming to catch up on!
