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3 years ago
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Wild Heart EA Steam wont launch

Game wont even launch. It just goest to EA closes it, wont start the game and opens EA again. I have tried every possible fix to it. Reinstalled, cleared caches of both EA and Steam, nothing works.

  • @halfire2016 Here is the solution that worked for me: Uninstall EA App, Wild Heart and Steam, create a new administrator account and reinstall EA App, Wild Heart and Steam. After you uninstall EA App, just to be on the safe side, remember to go to the root folder (mine is at C: Program Files/ Electronic Arts) and delete the whole empty EA folder.

    To create a new administrator account on your PC (Win 11), go to Start--Right click on your avatar--Change account settings--Family & other users--Other users (you may try "your family" but I prefer "other users")--Add someone else to this PC--Enter a Microsoft email address which is different from your main account--Add the new email address as a new account and make this account as an Administrator.

    After creating the new administrator account, log in to this new account and download Steam. Then download and reinstall Wild Hearts through Steam (check the box to create a desktop shortcut for the game).

    After the installation, use the shortcut to run Wild Heart. Steam will ask you to download EA App, follow the instructions and install EA App, and the game will continue to run.

    Wait for a few seconds and you should be able to see the loading screen of Wild Hearts now.

    I don't know the mechanism behind the account trick, but it did work for me. Hope it also works for you.

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  • @halfire2016 Same here, somebody on another forum said something about antiviruses possibly deleting a startup file or something like that, but I have no idea what they mean and no file verification is helping...
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    halfire2016
    3 years ago

    I dont even have antivirus only windows defender and i have the game set as an exception so it wouldnt mess up with it

  • @halfire2016 defender only here, on first start the EA app tried accessing my Documents folder but Defender's ransomware protection stopped it. It might have tried to create files or folders there that are necessary for WH to launch and now it looks like it won't try that operation again (speculation of course)...
  • more than nine people but ea dont respond us or he say do this but dosent work after that do nothing

  • @halfire2016 Here is the solution that worked for me: Uninstall EA App, Wild Heart and Steam, create a new administrator account and reinstall EA App, Wild Heart and Steam. After you uninstall EA App, just to be on the safe side, remember to go to the root folder (mine is at C: Program Files/ Electronic Arts) and delete the whole empty EA folder.

    To create a new administrator account on your PC (Win 11), go to Start--Right click on your avatar--Change account settings--Family & other users--Other users (you may try "your family" but I prefer "other users")--Add someone else to this PC--Enter a Microsoft email address which is different from your main account--Add the new email address as a new account and make this account as an Administrator.

    After creating the new administrator account, log in to this new account and download Steam. Then download and reinstall Wild Hearts through Steam (check the box to create a desktop shortcut for the game).

    After the installation, use the shortcut to run Wild Heart. Steam will ask you to download EA App, follow the instructions and install EA App, and the game will continue to run.

    Wait for a few seconds and you should be able to see the loading screen of Wild Hearts now.

    I don't know the mechanism behind the account trick, but it did work for me. Hope it also works for you.

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