Battlefield™ 2042

Battlefield™ 2042

Borked
DICE · Electronic Arts · 2021 Steam ↗

Battlefield™ 2042 is a first-person shooter that marks the return to the iconic all-out warfare of the franchise.

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Reports
QEMU/KVM
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Battlefield™ 2042 has been tested in virtual machines by 2 community members on VMDB. The overall VM compatibility rating is Borked — meaning it does not run properly in a virtual machine. QEMU/KVM is the most tested hypervisor for this game (2 of 2 reports). 100% of testers used GPU passthrough.

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Borked 2 (100%)

GPU Mode

Passthrough Borked
2 reports
Virtual GPU
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No GPU
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Anti-cheat detected
1 of 2 reports report anti-cheat: Other / Unknown

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Community Reports 2 total

Borked QEMU/KVM GPU Passthrough AMD CPU NVIDIA GPU Other / Unknown Blocked / kicks Jul 07, 2026
Host OS
Linux
Guest OS
Windows 11
VM RAM
16 GB
Play Time
~1200h
CPU
Ryzen 9 3900X
vCPU Cores
12
GPU
GTX 1660 Ti
Anti-Cheat

"Cannot run in a virtual machine. Please exit the VM (error 121 or 123)" quite funny "exit the VM" but I can't figure out what to change to make it work, tried custom firmware, smbios, hyper-v, disabling hypervisor, compiling QEMU etc. it worked from the launch on Easy Anti Cheat to about Season 3 I think when they started replacing it with EAAC, it worked well to end of last season when it outright in July of 2025 stopped working at all.

Reported by PhraseText7734 · 2 weeks ago
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Borked QEMU/KVM GPU Passthrough Apr 27, 2026
Host OS
Linux
Guest OS
Windows 10
VM RAM
32 GB
Play Time
~2000h
CPU
Ryzen 9 9950X3D
vCPU Cores
16
GPU
RTX 4080
Anti-Cheat

Since EA updated the anti-cheat software from Easy Anti-Cheat, to EA Anti-cheat (Javelin), the games does not even run, it stops with a message that it does not run under a virtual environment.

Reported by Anonymous · 2 months ago
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