EA App stuck - "Installing 96%"

EA_Mako​ can you help ?

Hey jonembury​ If the installation process stops, try the following steps. 

• Make sure that you have all windows updates installed
• Check if the game folder is already created when the installation stops and see if you can launch VC installation from it C:\Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 6\__Installer\vc\vc2022. Resume the installation process afterwards and see if it works. 
• Free up disk space on your installation drive. 
• Close Background Apps
  Turn off overlays, browsers, and antivirus software that may interfere.
• Run a clean boot and then start the installation. 
• Use Windows Troubleshooting Tools
  Try the Program Install/Uninstall troubleshooter or the System File Checker (SFC) tool.
• Make Another Windows Profile
  Create a new user profile to rule out account-specific issues. Guide here.

Keep us updated on the progress. 

Heya - thanks for replying!

 * Windows update is clear:

• VC update is installed:
• Install drive has 1.09Tb free
• I've killed all non-default background apps, other than EA service
• Done the DISM / SFC checks
• Troubleshooter found no problems

What I've subsequently also found is the EAAnticheat service is failing to start - returning Error 87: The parameter is incorrect:

Which in the event log shows:

I've uninstalled / re-installed it numerous times with no variation in behaviour

Is it possible this is related? How do I resolve it?

EA_Pulsar​ so there's hundreds of threads mentioning this same error going back years:

And it looks like generally, the thread gets ignored once this comes up. Is there some policy about not engaging with this problem in play?

Not sure if this is a related issue. Have you already tried the whole installation process for the EA app and the game on a new Windows account? What happens if you press the download button to continue, even a couple of times? 

Could you also change the User Access Control (UAC) settings and see if you receive any error? Link

I've honestly lost count of the number of times I've uninstalled, re-installed the EA App over the last week. Similarly, I've retry'd the install and re-downloaded the game many times, I've also tried single play only, multiplayer only, and base game only

UAC reports no errors (when set to challenge).

Looks like it's common: Black Box Splash Critical Launch Failure & Anti-Cheat Registration Bug on Steam | EA Forums - 12745090

This isn't isolated to the Steam distribution though.

Crashed on 25H2: