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amirulogy
Rising Newcomer
5 months ago

FC25: We've noticed that your computer is offline

So, I have bought EA FC25 bundle on Steam. I downloaded it and I clicked launch to play. As always, the splash screen appeared and the bar is loaded. Just as I thought the game would launch, it popped up the error saying "We've noticed your computer is currently offline. To activate your game on this computer your EA Account, you'll need to connect to the internet." I was confused, I thought my laptop have lost the internet connection as my Wi-fi is unstable but when I launched other games like Call of Duty, I can play it without any problems.

I have reset my network in my laptop settings and restart but the same error keeps popping up. I have added EA App's exe into my Firewall but the same problem keeps happening. Please find any solution as I have tried to look everywhere for it.

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  • amirulogy's avatar
    amirulogy
    Rising Newcomer
    5 months ago

    EDIT: I have find the solution, there's like a protection setting in my Wi-fi that somehow made my computer connection is slow but at the same time is fast so I turned on my phone's hotspot and I'm able to play it now.

  • kecoh_la_mat's avatar
    kecoh_la_mat
    Newcomer
    18 days ago

    I met the same problem, but didnt buy from steam just play through with xbox game passs, please let me know if u find the solution thanks. :D

  • Title: [Solved] EA FC25 – "We've noticed your computer is currently offline" Error on Launch


    Hi everyone,
    I recently ran into a frustrating issue while trying to launch EA SPORTS FC 25 (bought via Steam). The game splash screen loaded, but then I got this error:
    "We've noticed your computer is currently offline. To activate your game on this computer using your EA Account, you'll need to connect to the internet."
    At first, I thought it was my Wi-Fi acting up, but other online games (like Call of Duty) worked just fine. I tried restarting, resetting my network, allowing EA App through firewall — nothing worked.
    A few days earlier, I had installed a tool called Fiddler Classic, and that turned out to be the cause.


    What is Fiddler Classic?
    Fiddler is a web debugging tool that allows you to monitor, decrypt, and alter network traffic. As part of setting it up, I had:
    Set a proxy using the command: netsh winhttp set proxy 127.0.0.1:8888
    Enabled HTTPS traffic decryption
    Chose to ignore server certificate errors
    Installed a custom root certificate from Fiddler
    These changes were interfering with EA App’s ability to verify the online connection.


    How I Fixed It:


    Step 1: Reset the proxy
    Open Command Prompt as Administrator and run:
    netsh winhttp reset proxy


    Step 2: Disable the system proxy manually
    Go to Settings > Network & Internet > Proxy
    Turn OFF “Use a proxy server.”
    Keep “Automatically detect settings” ON


    Step 3: Remove the Fiddler certificate
    Open Fiddler and go to Tools > Options > HTTPS
    Uncheck “Decrypt HTTPS traffic” and “Ignore certificate errors”
    Click “Actions” and then “Remove interception certificates”
    Or run certmgr.msc and delete “DO_NOT_TRUST_FiddlerRoot” under Trusted Root Certification Authorities


    Step 4: Uninstall EA App and delete leftover data
    Delete these folders:
    %ProgramData%\EA Desktop
    %AppData%\EA
    %AppData%\Electronic Arts
    %LocalAppData%\EA
    %LocalAppData%\Electronic Arts


    Step 5: Flush DNS and certificate cache. 

    In Command Prompt (Admin), run these two commands:
    ipconfig /flushdns
    certutil -urlcache * delete


    Step 6: Reinstall the EA App
    Download the EA App from ea.com/ea-app
    Launch the game through Steam to trigger EA App login and activation


    Result: After following these steps, the game launched successfully without the “offline” error.


    If you’ve ever used Fiddler or any other tool that changes proxy or certificate settings, that may be what’s causing this issue. Reversing those changes fixed the problem for me — hope it helps someone else here too.


    Note: If you’ve used a different tool that modifies network behavior (not just Fiddler), undoing those changes may also resolve this issue.


    If this helped you, feel free to give it a Like and mark it as a solution so others can find it easily.


    — messifanhunny

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