exe file and choose "Run as Administrator".
When running it, please right click on the trainer. Make sure you fully extract the trainer from the. Consult your security product documentation for instruction on how to do this. Some must be completely uninstalled or the trainer and its temporary files whitelisted. Some security products will still block or interfere with trainers even when disabled. This type of issue can be caused by interference of third party software, typically security software. Temporarily disable/uninstall all antivirus, firewall and other security software. Then ALT+TAB back to the game and use the options. Once the game is up and running, ALT+TAB out to the trainer and press F1 to activate. Try running the trainer first (right click "Run as Administrator") then running the game. Make sure your F-LOCK and NUMLOCK keys are on. This can be found on each game's index page. If there has been a patch, you can use our trainer update notification system to let our staff know. Distributions and versions supported by each trainer are listed on the game's index page. This may also happen if the trainer was created specifically for the Steam version and you are using the Origin version or some other distribution of the game. If the game has patched since the trainer was last updated this can cause a crash. Make sure the trainer version matches the game version and distribution. It may also be necessary to give full permissions to the Windows TEMP folder. Trainers need full Windows permission to access the game in memory and create temporary files.
It may also be necessary to do this on the game as well.
I hope this might help some of you, who are stuck with this annoying problem with Origin not downloading/updating games.Temporarily disable/uninstall all antivirus, firewall and other security software. Windows doesn't really tell about this, unless you yourself go and check it, so that's why I guess it goes unnoticed. All problems vanished and I could once again download and update games!Īpparently newer origin versions rely on certain windows updates, and this might explain why for some people origin just suddenly stops working sometimes: windows updates get stuck. I uninstalled Origin restarted computer and installed it again.Ĩ. For me, it offered ~4 critical updates and about 40 optional ones, of which I installed everything.ħ. Try to update windows again, now it takes sometime as it establishes the current update level. Back at the Services list right click on Windows Update Service and select start.Ħ. Go to C:\windows\SoftwareDistribution and delete the contents.ĥ. Search for Windows Update Service from the list, right click on it and select stop.Ĥ. Hit "Windows key + R" and type in the command box services.msc and hit enter. To delete the update temporary storage, we first need to take windows update off for a while. More info can be found from:, but I'll write here what I did according to that link.ģ. This causes you to lose your update history, but it allows you to update your windows again. Apparently Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver (Intel RST) can also be behind the problem and installing latest drivers may solve the problem. Installing KB3102810 Standalone Update has also been reported to solve the update problem. There are several ways to solve this, but for me what worked was to delete windows update temporary storage folder. In my case, I got the error "windows update cannot currently check for updates because the service is not running. Go to your windows update and try to update. Solving the update problem allowed me to install critical and optional updates, which then solved all problems with origin. My windows update had become "stuck" in a way, which seems to be not so rare problem. The problem was with windows itself, in my case windows 7. I had similar problem, where nothing helped with this problem (clearing cache, clean boot, administrator priviledges, UAC, firewall settings), but ultimately I managed to solve it at least for me. Information and Announcements about EA Play.Information, Guides and Announcements for the EA app.