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?
I found a workaround for the startup crash after EA AntiCheat.Full credit for the solution goes to this post:
EA FC 26 - Problema com Anti Cheat - não abre o jogo | EA Forums - 13019493IMPORTANT:
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#BBUyKm4ZyVpZSteps:
- Backup your original folder.
- Copy the working folder into:
C:\Users<user>\AppData\Local\ - Launch the game.
- If EA App asks to repair the game, you can safely do it.
- Once the game launches correctly, close it.
- 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.
