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EA App Instability with Sims 3
Ever since the change from Origin to the EA App, I've had consistent issues with the management of my Sims 3 and all of it's DLC, store content etc. I'm regularly having to re-enter my in game settings, from ages, to seasons, to time format. This is a constant issue since the change to the EA App. Twice now, none of my DLC towns have been properly installed. I should only have to install this content once. The EA App should not be allowed to make changes to my saved game content such as DLC and Sims 3 Store content. The missing DLC includes as above, towns, certain premium items etc and causes a 'serious error' when loading a town which is in any way reliant on DLC I'm unaware has suddenly been either disconnected or uninstalled from my game. I have been getting prompts to 'Register' my Sims 3 game with Origin, which I did ages ago. If I close this window, as I'm no longer using my physical discs for gameplay, it aborts the starting of the game. I'm honestly sick of this App, the fact that we're forced to use it rather than simply installing all of our owned merchandise onto our PCs and being able to start the game with the launcher, allowing us to bypass this abysmal PC app. Please fix the stability of this app with regard to already installed games, in particular the Sims 3. You've made a mess of it and the game costs, in total, a fortune.
Auto-enabling "Launch at startup"
YOUR CANCEROUS APP AUTOMATICALLY ENABLES ITSELF TO START AT LAUNCH I REMOVED THE **bleep** SETTING 5 TIMES IT KEEPS COMING BACK **bleep** YOU AND YOUR APP WITH A RUSTY BARBED RAKE I UNINSTALLED THAT PIECE OF **bleep** AND WILL BUY EVERY GAME ON STEAM FOREVER **bleep** YOUR **bleep** **bleep** BEHAVIOR
EA App intruding annoying unwanted behavior
The problem of this topic to solve is: After exiting a game EA App always goes on screen from a minimised state in windows system tray. This problem is currently still present and so it has to be solved. More things to add: I would not even open and use the **bleep** EA App if it didn't need to start by itself after i installed a game from it which i didn't have any other option otherwise - for example GOG offers offline installers - EA please take notes. EA App is very slow to launch even on high-end overclocked systems and slows down launching games which are usually filled with more annoying screens which you have to wait for their loading only so you can skip them. What is a wanted behavior? You double click icon on your desktop The game launches(no additional spywares/crapwares/malwares like EA App starts opening together with the game) Game opens(and no additional screens intros and so on which you have to wait only so you are able to click them away opens) You are put into a simple fast and snappy menu(not a slowly laggy turning carousel menu) The target is so it takes 1 second to get to the games menu from double clicking the icon on your desktop with borderless mode possibly even less(unlike the current state of 1 minute just until i get in the Battlefield 6 menu).
Old Sims 3 games
So I will just never be able to use/play MY purchased games from YEARS ago because I can't remember the login to a dead acc?? Even if I provided all owned game codes, why can't I just get the 1st letter of the email those codes were redeemed on? Like come on, we were kids then! I would love to play my games again on my new acc without having to purchase them all again. This has been an ongoing battle for folks for a while now. There should be another way!
EA Client - Location already installed game
Hi, can you please add game localization to the client after 20 years? I don't know why this feature hasn't been included for a long time, if you don't have enough money for it, or your programmers don't know how to do it, ask how to program it for example in battlenet. I don't know why players, when they're already paying you for games, should still have to do **bleep** with installing games. Very angry user already.
Such a bad game
I dont understand what ea are trying to do with these games these days fc26 is without a doubt the worst game I've ever played you cant even chill on sqaud battles anymore because the game literally will not let you tackle the game intercepts every single pass you can hardly take players on because they know what your going to do before you even do the game won't let you win headers and if you do its never a good pass to your player unless its 4 or 5 nil then you will win them all the game purposely alters your shots for no reason you can score a great finish with power curling it in top corner but do the same shot 30seconds later and there will be no power at all and the keeper saves it from a few yards away why am I paying nearly 100 pound for a game that doesn't even work or do what I ask this is definitely the year I'm gone from this game because this is going to far its supposed to be a game not something you have to think about not playing because you already know its gunna send you crazy what's the point anymore ea dont listen to anyone never help and only blame their playersdon't hide games when ea play pro subscription has been ended
My ea play pro subscription ended yesterday and I wanted to check if I can uninstall BF6 in my game library via the launcher. No, it just hides the game completely for me. Need to uninstall it manually via windows system settings. Improve this. Every other launcher handles this better.
No option to invite friends and recent players
Please introduce an option to invite recently played with player and invite friends, its a bit naff. The only way to invite a friend is to invite to party....okay but if one of the party leaves a game lobby you can't invite back as they are still in the party but not the game lobby. So they need to leave party and be re-invited. Also no join player/party option.
FIXED: “Preparing Game” Loop When Launching Sims 4 (EA App / Steam)
FIXED: “Preparing Game” Loop When Launching Sims 4 (EA App / Steam) I want to share this because I spent days troubleshooting this issue and the fix turned out to be simple but completely unexpected. The Symptom Whenever I tried to launch The Sims 4 through the EA App (originally bought on Steam, later reinstalled through EA), I would get the “Preparing game…” window. It would pop up, disappear, come back, disappear again, and then nothing happened. The EA App would stay open on the library screen with no error message or crash report. What I Tried Here’s everything I did that did not work: Cleared the EA App cache multiple times Uninstalled and reinstalled both The Sims 4 and the EA App Verified game files Deleted AppData, Local, and ProgramData EA folders Renamed the Sims 4 folder and rebuilt everything Ran both EA App and Sims 4 as Administrator Updated GPU drivers and reinstalled AMD Adrenalin Installed chipset drivers, DirectX, and Visual C++ redistributables Checked EA Background Service (set to automatic) Rebuilt the missing Sims 4 registry key manually Checked CPU/GPU temps and fan profiles Disabled antivirus and OneDrive syncing Ran DISM and SFC scans Installed all Windows updates None of this worked. EA App kept flashing “Preparing game” twice and doing nothing. The Actual Cause A few days earlier, I had been using melonDS (a Nintendo DS emulator) to play Style Savvy. I manually changed my system date and time to unlock in-game items faster. I forgot to change it back afterward. The EA App uses your system clock to verify authentication certificates and game licenses. If your system date/time is incorrect (even by a single day), the token validation fails and the game silently aborts the launch process. That’s why it looks like it’s stuck on “Preparing game.” The Fix Open Windows Date & Time settings. Turn on Set time automatically and Set time zone automatically. Make sure your system clock shows the correct current time. Restart the EA App and launch The Sims 4 again. After fixing the date and time, The Sims 4 launched instantly with no issues. Summary If The Sims 4 or any EA App game is stuck in a “Preparing game” loop even after clearing cache, reinstalling, or repairing files, check your system clock first. The EA App will refuse to launch games if your computer’s date or time is incorrect.
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