updated to the new EA app. Now Crysis 3 will not open or update

I can report the same issue as of yesterday (04 March 2023). I tried repairing the Crysis 3 installation, completely uninstalling and reinstalling, disabled the in-game overlay from the EA app settings, tried to run the game as administrator (from the bin32 folder) and in all cases the game failed to launch. Even after the the fresh re-installation of the game, it still shows that an update is required. I've run the update several times and yet it remains showing that an update is required. The game worked while in Origin, how did it break when moving over into the EA app? EA team please help. (I'm running on windows 7 professional 64 bit; and the game did work while in Origin so there should be no reason it should not work now).