Yep, tried all the same things you did with the same results: about 70% of the way through the upgrade I get an error message and that is it. No help and no ideas since I can't get into EA for assistance. I thought Origin was bad, EA is going from the proverbial frying pan into the fire. Terrible app.
Absolute trash, this EA app is.
Functions are broken as stated above PLUS, what hasn't been mentioned is that for some god forsaken reason, it shows itself to shadowplay as a game, so each time I launch it, and subsequently launch one of my games on there (duh) ingame recording is stuck to EA app.
So unless I disable shadowplay background recording and re-enable it each time I launch Battlefield 2042 for example, I'm gonna have a static 20 min recording of the GOD AWFUL FORCED ON ME EA APP instead of the lest 20 minutes of gameplay.
No, I'm not going to accept having to manually do this each time I launch a game.
And no, I'm not going to set shadowplay to record the whole desktop to workaround this unacceptable fault of EA.
When shadowplay is set to record the desktop, it has a lot more instances of corrupted recordings and it's also a waste of storage space, when I save the last 5 mins of gameplay after launching a game... and I get 15mins of desktop/web browsing in the beginning of the file + 5mins of gameplay. (yeah, I have the replay buffer set to 20mins)
Additionally, if I happen to play CS:GO for example (which I play at a lower res) before playing BF and I have desktop recording on, the chances of the mp4 file being corrupted in some way, skyrocket. This is why one should leave desktop recording for the replay buffer of shadowplay OFF, which doesn't present any problems... except if you're using the EA APP, and of course. no matter how hard I try, I cannot revert back to Origin now.
I typed this all out, because I suspect EA reps would have the nerve to suggest a workaround like this INSTEAD OF FIXING THEIR ABHORRABLE LAUNCHER.
ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE THAT THIS PIECE OF GARBAGE IS FORCED ON USERS!!!!!!
I tried every trick, leaving the EA app installed while reinstalling origin has worked for the past month after EA first forced their REPRESENTATION AS A COMPANY on me, but today the FORCED UPDATE TO EA APP banner has popped up again.
Already updated the trash EA APP to its latest version, in hopes that if I do that, Origin will let me use itself... but alas, nope.
Fully updated EA APP, but Origin still asks to "update the ea app" upon reinstalling it and logging in, which of course uninstalls Origin.
I'm considering abandoning the Battlefield series, into which I sunk 2000+ hours and play it daily.
ABSOLUTE TRASH COMPANY.
Screenshooting my reply in advance, in case it gets censored.
I wouldn't be surprised.
Yep, I have to agree with you. I cannot do the u/g from Origin to EA and even tried to do a "thin setup of Origin" to see if I could play my older games. Worked for a day and then went to the damn upgrade mode to EA. I also agree with others that it does not seem fair that we buy games from Origin and cannot play them because some idiot s/w engineer decided to force us to play on line. Maybe a class action suit would work.
Are you having the same problem as me? like the picture I uploaded? it's really a shame if they take this kind of thing lightly, if they want to move from origin to EA, they are still immature to develop this kind of thing for a big company
Same issue for me. Went it for BF4 yesterday, Origin forced me to install the EA rubbish and from there on the screen started flickering, "EA APP CAN'T CONNECT", the PC slowed, the app wouldn't close and would stay up while being invisible, no game in sight while present in task manager. Absolute garbage.
Tried everything and still no success.
Uninstalled all games and Origin.
Installed EA app still Blank Screen, OMG this is frustrating to say the least.
Removed EA games and Reinstalled Origin and forced into pop up to install EA app.
What a CRAZY LOOP !
HEEEEELP !
what about the hosts file
I can't be 100% sure myself but I'm not willing to undo it to see what it does.
I have sims 3 (on CD) and I just went my computer (drive for CD) and autostart, bypassed app notification
