EA SPORTS FC 26 crashing on startup (0xc0000005) - Help needed

Hi everyone,

I’m encountering a persistent crash when launching EA SPORTS FC 26. The game attempts to start, but it closes automatically after about 10–15 seconds, long before reaching the main menu.

I have analyzed the crash dump and the background logs. The crash seems to be an Access Violation (0xc0000005) occurring during the EA AntiCheat/Denuvo DRM initialization.

Technical Details:

Exception Code: 0xc0000005 (Access Violation)

Culprit: Appears to be related to ANTICHEAT_VIRTUALIZE_CODEMARKER and GetDenuvoTimeTicketRequest.

Logs: EA Background and Desktop logs indicate a license data read error triggered after the Anti-Cheat attempts to initialize.

I have attached the Minidump file and the relevant EA App logs (EABackgroundService.log, EADesktop.log, etc.) to this post.

Could someone help me interpret these logs or suggest a solution to bypass this initialization failure? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!