FC26 crashes on startup with C0000005 Access Violation on multiple PCs
I’m having a persistent crash issue with EA SPORTS FC 26 and I’ve exhausted almost every troubleshooting step I can think of.
The game crashes on startup every single time with:
Exception: C0000005 – Access Violation
What makes this especially strange is:
- FC 25 works perfectly.
- FC 26 crashes on multiple different PCs.
- I fully reinstalled Windows from scratch.
- I tested both Windows 11 and Windows 10.
- I updated BIOS.
- I disabled XMP and virtualization features.
- I reinstalled GPU drivers using clean installs.
- I reinstalled EA App and EA AntiCheat.
- I deleted all FC26 folders from Documents/AppData.
- I tested offline mode.
- I tested with overlays disabled.
- I tested on another friend’s PC and it still crashes on my account.
- The crash usually happens after 10–40 seconds during startup.
I’m using EA Play Pro.
The crashdump always reports:
“Access violation - code c0000005”
I also noticed references related to Denuvo/entitlement requests before crashing.
At this point it looks more like an account/licensing/profile issue specific to FC26 rather than a hardware problem.
Has anyone experienced something similar or found a workaround?
