I am having problems with the ea app as well. Every tike I try to launch FIFA 23 it tells me that there was a problem and I should try later and I have went days without playing because of this, yet still I still cannot launch the game. I never had these problems with Origin and now I can't play my games. I need to know how to bypass this or the issues needs to be fixed.
I tried again, and the EA App is still popping up when trying to Login via Origin, and then it won't go away.
It also won't install either, crashes every time.
Effectively locked out from PAID FOR CONTENT.
I absolutely detest having to login via any App. If you pay for Software, that should be it, unless you wish to Patch or Upgrade.
The EA App demonstrates everything that's wrong with the concept, and EA's abject failure to pull the broken EA App, demonstrates everything that is wrong with EA.
try opening your hosts file (located at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc) in notepad
and adding this to the bottom
127.0.0.1 api1.origin.com
and relaunching origin (quit via taskbar)
it should stop origin seeing any potential updates and maybe the popup as well (but not your ability to log in or play games)
avatars won't load tho, despite them being cached, and you won't be able to read/change your cloud saves and the setting associated with them or do any microtranactions with virtual currency.
Thanks, I did wonder about disabling update checks, so will investigate this.
same thing with sims 3.
I was somehow able to get the launcher to finally come up, I havent seen the sims 3 launcher since I started getting the ea app error that its an issue on their end. with ea app and origin installed I am able to prevent ea app from being the default by moving the sims 3 folder out of the ea folder into program files/electronic arts and deleting some files that appear to link origin and ea app (though im not sure how effective that is tbh, i still get the pop up in origin but it is slower). now when the launcher opens it says "origin is required" error. I was trying to add the host file edit, but i agree with the user that i dont necessarily want to change my pc configuration if I know thats not the issue, so i may only try that if i have more guidance from my fiance later. the uptodown download files appear to be all the online origin download so i am not sure how to keep the older version once its installing. this is some bs, origin is still working for mac users correct?
@Jamo3194 the only way to keep old origin versions is to stop origin from checking for updates
it doesn't stop you logging in, but I don't know frosty mod launcher will still work unlike in the case of modifing the origin files itself
you'd have to manually download the origin version from where it's stored on akamaihd and replace all the files with their previous versions in your origin install location
