FC 26 error, won't open, and a pop up like this appears:

Hey folks,

Shoutout to amarosv​ for both finding and sharing their solution to this issue! As this seems to solve this for some folks I'll accept it as the solution so hopefully other folks with this problem can find it.

It worked for me too

The people save the people🤙🏼

brother you are the goat ive battled this issue for 2 months now and you saved me

I FINALLY FIXED IT. I found a workaround for the startup crash after EA AntiCheat.

Full credit for the solution goes to this post:
https://forums.ea.com/discussions/fc-24-pt/ea-fc-24-n%C3%A3o-inicia/7696929

IMPORTANT:
Before doing anything, make a backup of your original folder (for example by renaming it to "EA SPORTS FC 26 - old"), since it contains your careers, profiles, settings, etc.

The solution is to copy the folder:

C:\Users<user>\AppData\Local\EA SPORTS FC 26

from a friend whose game launches correctly.

If you don’t know anyone who can share the folder, you can use this one:
https://drive.proton.me/urls/B0X4MBBZB4#BBUyKm4ZyVpZ

Steps:

1. Backup your original folder.
2. Copy the working folder into:
   C:\Users<user>\AppData\Local\
3. Launch the game.
4. If EA App asks to repair the game, you can safely do it.
5. Once the game launches correctly, close it.
6. Copy back your original folder to recover your careers, profiles, settings, etc.

In my case this completely fixed the issue after days of trying:

• Windows reinstalls,
• multiple PCs,
• AntiCheat,
• drivers,
• BIOS,
• Amazon Luna, etc.

EA_QueenBee​ 

I’m now seeing more users reporting exactly the same problem, so this clearly does not seem to be an isolated issue.

In my case, EA SPORTS FC 26 always crashes during startup right after EA AntiCheat finishes loading and automatically returns to EA App without showing any visible error message. My case is exactly the same as the one shown in the video uploaded byaleras9226​.

I’m also attaching my own video and two crashdumps generated by the game.

The crashdumps consistently show:

• C0000005 Access Violation
• references such as GetDenuvoTimeTicketRequest

I have already tried absolutely EVERYTHING from my side:

• clean Windows reinstall,
• Windows 10 and Windows 11,
• reinstalling FC26, EA App and EA AntiCheat,
• BIOS and GPU driver updates,
• clean boot / disabling background apps,
• disabling overlays/XMP/virtualization,
• testing on multiple PCs,
• testing through Amazon Luna,
• testing with different EA accounts,
• clean GPU driver reinstall using DDU,
• online and offline testing,
• deleting caches and game configuration files,
• and multiple escalations with EA Support.

Additionally:

• FC25 works perfectly,
• another EA account works correctly on my PC,
• but MY EA account crashes even on other PCs and also on Amazon Luna.

Everything strongly points to this being related to FC26 accounts/entitlements/profiles rather than local hardware.

I also reported this issue myself here:
https://forums.ea.com/discussions/fc-26-technical-issues-en/fc26-crashes-on-startup-with-c0000005-access-violation-on-multiple-pcs/13414003

No there is no error just closes right after and opens the EA app. I used to play it fine but suddenly this happen.

Hey aleras9226​,

Sounds like you're having a separate issue now. Are you getting any errors when it closes, or what's happening exactly?

Could you also share a quick DxDiag, please? Hopefully that'll give me some more information on what the issue is.

I was having the same issue re installed everything and now it opens but close right away what can I do?