FC 26 crashes to desktop after connecting to EA servers
FC 26 crashes to desktop right after signing in on the title screen. Windows Event Viewer only shows "EAAntiCheat unloaded successfully" (FilterManager, Event ID 6) at the crash timestamp.
Troubleshooting already done with no change:
- Reinstalled EA AntiCheat manually
- Repaired Microsoft VC++ Redistributables (x64 and x86)
- Clean GPU driver reinstall via DDU
- Updated motherboard BIOS to the latest version
- Disabled Windows Core Isolation / Memory Integrity
- Confirmed Secure Boot and TPM are both enabled
- Cleared EA App cache via App Recovery
- Changed DNS servers (Google DNS)
- Fully uninstalled and did a clean install of FC 26 on a separate drive
- Disabled all overlays (Steam, Discord, NVIDIA)
Battlefield 6, which uses the same EA Javelin anti-cheat, launches and plays completely fine on this exact PC.
Specs:
Intel i9-12900KF
RTX 5070 Ti
Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX
32GB DDR5 RAM
Running Windows 11