Hello, everyone. The EA App now requires a 64 bit PC running Windows 10 or 11. MacOS running Catalina or newer is also supported.
Before I start, I understand that Windows 7 is obsolete. That should not matter for my video games however. I can still play on my old PS2 and PS3 and winXP, and my games are not locked off just because the consoles are obsolete. Upgrading this PC to win10 and so on is out of the question.
I have a Win7 PC with Sims3 installed. I have a few stuff packs I got off Origin, but expansions and basegame are bought on discs, but I believe I installed them through Origin as I could re-install it at some point using my disc codes in Origin or something. I forget. But I have the latest disc.
(My last expansion disc only wants to "install" tho, so something got changed when I started using Origin I guess.)
Anyway. The EA app was fine last December, but however now it's refusing to start. I went and updated the app since it refused to do anything (but kept the old install exe). The new app would not even install, and infact uninstalled itself on my PC. I managed to re-install the earlier exe but it still will not start. It just goes to "downloading" and then instantly shuts off.
Since EA refuses to let me launch my game, I cant play my game on my own PC. A game I own on disc even.
Does anyone know of a fix? I dont know what to do. Is it possible to use a working older launcher somehow? I could block it from going online with my firewall I guess, but I'm not sure it will even work as it seems to want to look for updates immediately. (Thew new installed would shut down if I tried to keep it from going online.)
It should not matter that I play in Win7, as the game works fine on this PC and my game does not need internet or any EA server to work.
Does anyone know what I can do? I dont remember which version of the game I have, and I cant check since I cant reach the launcher. The Nraas thing does not help me as I have a mix of disc games and origin bought stuff packs, and I prob dont have the right version.
I just want to play my game in peace on my computer. I dont understand why EA could not just leave the older app alone and just if anything dont let games go online or something.
My win7 is 64bit so they cannot claim that this is the issue.
Community ManagerI know you do not want to hear this, but Windows 10 is the minimum requirement for the EA app.
The EA app for Windows is available to all players on a (minimum) 64-bit PC system, running Windows 10, and 11. The EA app for Mac is available to players on macOS Catalina or newer.
EA_Barry.
Yes, but what changed from December to today that rendered the app useless? It was working fine half a year ago. It also straight up feels like EA has stolen my games and are holding them hostage, on account of not giving me an option to play them any other way.
If EA now suddenly has a minimum requirement, they should "release" the games from the bonds of their launcher and let us play them without their launcher. I dont think this is morally right in any capacity to force the games I've purchased, well before EA grabbed the rights to them, behind a not-needed launcher, and then wash their hands of them and say sorry, these are not for you to play anymore.
Had I known 5 years down the road that EA was going to rip the games out of my hands, I would have made sure Origin and whatever was never gonna see the internet again.
Why is there no work-around for older setups? It would have been as simple as just an offline, standalone launcher. Especially considering it working fine 6 months ago. It's really not right.
