Community ManagerHey @lgaudet going forward you will need to use the EA app to play your EA games.
Darko
EA App Black screen.
Troubleshooted for 2 day straight now without success.
Only method left to try is to uninstall Origin and all the games and start over from scratch downloading EVERYTHING again, if the EA app works ...
I tried that. Uninstalled Origin and all of my games. Then rebooted my system and installed a thin setup of Origin. My next step was to run the new Origin to see if it would kick me to the cursed EA which it did not. Gave a sigh of relief and installed my Origin games (which I paid for) and played for one day and then, low and behold, Origin reverted back to wanting to run through EA. Good luck and I hope you manage better than I did. It seems so wrong not being able to play games we paid for; maybe my idea of a class action suit isn't a bad idea. After all of this grief I don't belief I even want to go to EA once, and if, things are straightened out.
they had YEARS to fix the ea app, but NOPE!
still broken
origin still has to popup for me
and unfortunately, running origin offline it fails to display anything
what reigon are you in @BylineBelife and origin version?
it seems to be a case by case basis where it pushes you
someone needs to figure out what to block 3 months ago!
using the origin bootstrap log, i've found that origin gets the update data from
https://api1.origin.com/autopatch/2/upgradeFrom/[versionhere]/en_US/PROD?platform=PCWIN&osVersion=[OSVERSIONHERE(Major.Minor.Build)]&servicePackVersion=1.0&priority=8
https://origin-a.akamaihd.net/Origin-Client-Download/origin/live/OriginUpdate_[Origin_version_here].zip is where it gets the data for it, and I've downloaded the files for the version I had before the latest update...
maybe I could block origin from checking there own servers?
but that would be the whole api domain, which may stop other things working
UPDATE: I manually downgraded my origin version and blocked the api using my hosts file
cloud saves (because installing ea app uninstalled origin and the default is on*) and microtranactions in NFS payback don't work, but it still see all my entitlements as they were (I've got backups of the origin data folders), and I could create a multiplayer lobby
avatars also do not show
but no popups?
*-restoring data folders to previous version also reenabled origin autoupdate which i had always set, HOWEVER, the cloud save option has always been off for me, so it seems it may actually need to reach the servers to be able to read a non-default (OFF) setting for cloud saves.
but since it can't reach cloud servers, you just need to ignore/press some prompts
I'm in Sweden, and my Origin version I have no idea about and don't know how to find out. File properties, says it's from October 9th, 2022.
