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AmanAbdu
Seasoned Newcomer
20 days ago

Facing Severe FPS Drops on FC26 in PC

I’m facing major FPS issues in EA FC 26 on PC. My setup is NVIDIA RTX 4050 + Ryzen 7 7000 (8-core), yet the game randomly drops to 1–5 FPS, especially after halftime, during cutscenes, or goal celebrations mainly while playing online matches like Seasons

I’ve already tried clearing EA App cache, NVIDIA driver cache/temp data, Windows temp files, and even repaired the game. The latest update didn’t fix it. Online matches are basically unplayable because of these sudden drops.

I see many others reporting similar problems here, on Reddit, and other online platforms, so this isn’t isolated. I'm not sure about console players PS5/Xbox users, seems they are less affected, but PC users are struggling badly.

EA needs to acknowledge this issue and release a proper optimization patch. Workarounds like disabling overlays or tweaking NVIDIA Control Panel settings haven’t solved it. Please escalate this to the dev team — the game is unplayable in its current state.

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  • juventusu7000's avatar
    juventusu7000
    Seasoned Adventurer
    19 days ago

    Hello, The game has a bug where it automatically resets the settings to ultra every time the game is started. I had the same problems too. First, set the settings you play well with in the eafc 26 menu, either from the nvidia app or directly from the fcsetup.ini file. Then, try setting the configuration files (fcsetup.ini, fcsetup_default.ini, overrideAutodetect.lua) to read-only first, and then deny them write access for each user. That's how I solved it. However, I think the biggest problems or the settings that should be lowered are the rendering scale (even lowering the normal resolution to 720p, 1080p caused a drop in fps with the rendering scale at 100), Ambient Occlusion to medium-low, and setting Hair Strands to off. I hope this helps you solve the problem. 

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