new update making my game crash

I have the same problem since the last Windows update. It was working perfectly on Sunday, Windows updated Sunday evening and Monday the game didn't work anymore. Exact same behavior: game launches, but crashes completely soon after main screen.

I've reinstalled the game, EA App, VC++ packages, graphic card, added exception in windows security. Nothing works.

Where I've got with the investigation so far is it seems the EADesktop.exe is crashing causing the F1 to close. Unclear why ... There are some crash details in the event viewer but doesn't tell too much other than it crashed ... It seems to indicate a problem in MSVCP140.dll but that didn't change since 2022.

Faulting application name: EADesktop.exe, version: 13.437.0.5950, time stamp: 0x67f01517
Faulting module name: MSVCP140.dll, version: 14.34.31931.0, time stamp: 0xd1597dcd
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000013008
Faulting process id: 0x698
Faulting application start time: 0x01dbab7c4468c261
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EA Desktop\EA Desktop\EADesktop.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\MSVCP140.dll
Report Id: 759efec4-3da4-4803-9989-dcf5ce96d9e1
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

 Attached also a more detailed report file which doesn't tell much more about the problem either.

Thoughts would help.

MM