How to fix Xbox Game Pass and EA Desktop games not downloading

In this video I will show you how to fix the issue between Xbox Game Pass and EA Desktop Games where EA Desktop won't download games or it will give you the error: "could not download EA desktop"

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[tonyguzman]

You shouldn't need to do all this BS

[SalvactorExtra]

I was trying for TWO HOURS and I was stuck with an error message on the EA app that said something like "Couldn't Download there was a hiccup try resetting your PC LOL" or something like that I forgot tbh. Then I found someone on a forum that literally saved me! I'll try to sound as clear as possible but the solution was, begin to download a free game like Apex on the EA App and if that works, then cancel the download. After go to the game that you wanted to download and then you should be able to download it.

[cademartin]

I tried this and was unsuccessful. Every time I install ea desktop it's says there is an ea desktop error and app recovery. Any help?

[Silent]

worked 100%, why big AAA companies cant handle such small things :D

[granolakitty]

Honestly I had tried everything before finding this video, and it worked after about 3 or 4 tries. Thanks dude for real

[laurengraham]

thank you man i almost started crying over how stressed out i was but you helped me

[mysticwizard]

doesn't work for me. trying to sign in to help.ea page via xbox causes a reset password screen to come up for an EA account. I cannot get it to let me sign in with xbox/microsoft account.

[lajm_]

If this didn't work for you and you don't mind making a new account I would recommend to sign out of ea app, go to the log in screen, click on the xbox logo, logging in to the xbox account, clicking yes if asked for any permissions, setting up a new EA ID, and after all of that you should have an account that's automatically linked with the xbox app, for me this was the only way to link the xbox app to the ea one. Once you're done with everything you should be able to go to the ea app's library and install every ea play game.

[XAlex]

On my case, I opened the Ea app and tried downloading the game I wanted directly from it instead of the Xbox App. The app detected I had a game pass subscription and the download worked correctly. Hope this works as a fix for some of you guys that have the problem.

[greaseball]

Sadly this method didn’t work for me basically every game on the app says it’s currently not playable

[aishak]

Thank you very much. I could'nt download star wars battlefront 2 and after doing exactly what you did in the video till the end, it worked and now the game is downloading

[SANadvi-dwib]

whenever I try to download a game in EA it shows "calculating time "and suddenly it says" EA could not connect to the network"...but my net connection is perfect. I have also used the VPN but it didn't work please help

[fcbchickens]

Mine says game unavailable at this time when I open ea desktop. The only game it doesn’t say it for is fifa 20 and 21 but I can’t even download that. I’m trying to download battlefront 2 but it just won’t work. Please help

[Bored._.]

Does this fix me being able to download the games tht say they are unable to be played ?

[rufflefeathers]

Also worth mentioning to anyone else who has an issue where EA Play has a blank screen after the loading circle pops up, that I've had to find the folder location for EAPlayDesktop and run as administrator. Clearing the App cache, uninstalling/reinstalling doesn't work.

Nightmare if you have kids that play on PC and you don't want to provide them full administrator access to the PC... Cannot believe how poor EA have been with stabilising this year's after release!

[JoshM]

Jesus I can play bf2042 cause of you thanks, just switched to pc and it’s a nightmare

[Halliin]

so i have tried everything im trying to download battlefield. i get the download screen etc i press on download then it says *unable to install there was a slight hiccup and we couldnt finish installing battlefield. Restart your pc and try again* tried restarting the pc also. Anyone know how to fix this??

[سربازالله-لط]

I really need help.
I can`t download or play the games from ea.
I wanted to download titanfall 2 and it stays at zero on the Xbox app on pc.
and i tryied a lot of thing and it still dont works.
PLASE HELP

[maria-pbbn]

thank you so much, i struggled with downloading the ea app and used the tipps from 0:00 to 4:25 and also deinstalled my avast secure app completeley. that helped me fix the issue. hope more people see this video!

[rationalconsumer]

I can download games fine, I just cant play them. When I try to launch a game through ea desktop it tells me to repair the game installation and try again...