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BarsMarega
Seasoned Novice
13 hours ago

My limit was reached, unacceptable EA...

I am honestly reaching my limit with EA FC on PC. I have never seen a AAA game behave with this level of inconsistency, instability and total disregard for the players who paid full price. From day one, Ultimate Team on PC has been a disaster. Severe stutter, random freezes, GPU usage spiking to 100% even in menus, unpredictable input delay, FPS drops out of nowhere, and a level of instability that makes the game feel like it is held together with tape. Nothing about this is normal. I can play perfectly for hours on one launch, close the game, reopen it, and everything is instantly broken again without touching a single setting. It’s like rolling dice every time I hit Play. I have had sessions where the menus are smooth, the gameplay is perfect and everything runs fine, and then the next time I open the game the stutter is so extreme that even navigating Ultimate Team menus becomes painful. That alone proves the issue is not user hardware or settings. I have done literally everything a player can do. Clean driver install, DirectX 11 and 12 testing, editing setup.ini, changing screen mode from fullscreen to borderless and back, adjusting every graphical setting, capping FPS, uncapping FPS, optimizing NVIDIA Control Panel, Armory Crate performance modes, manual fan curves, undervolting, reinstalling drivers, deleting cache files, reinstalling EA App files, changing monitors, changing cables, disabling overlays, disabling background apps, updating BIOS, updating chipset drivers, forcing the game to use the dedicated GPU, low latency modes, absolutely everything. The game still decides when it wants to work and when it wants to break. I have paid for Early Access and never got a single stable experience from this mode. Career mode works fine, friendlies work fine, other games run perfectly on my system, and yet Ultimate Team behaves like an unstable beta every single day. I even bought a cooling pad to make sure temperatures weren’t causing issues and it changed nothing. Even the temperature behavior is inconsistent, sometimes opening the game pushes CPU and GPU to extreme values for no reason, other times everything sits perfectly normal. This proves again that the problem is inside the game. I have created multiple posts, in English and Portuguese, filled out EA forms, and nothing changes. The updates that EA released have done nothing to fix the instability; some made the situation significantly worse. And what makes all of this even more frustrating is the silence. No clear acknowledgment, no transparency, no real communication, nothing that actually addresses the PC performance problems that so many people keep reporting. It is December now, months after release, and Ultimate Team on PC is still broken, unstable, unpredictable, and frankly disrespectful to the players who paid for it. The community is tired of being ignored. We are tired of pretending this is a problem on our end. It is not. It has never been. EA needs to take responsibility and fix the disastrous state of Ultimate Team on PC immediately.

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    BarsMarega
    Seasoned Novice
    13 hours ago

    EA, this situation has become absolutely absurd. I am genuinely shocked that months after release Ultimate Team on PC is still in this condition. The level of stutter, delay and instability is something I have never experienced in any modern game, let alone a multimillion-budget AAA title from one of the biggest companies in gaming. Every single day is the same exhausting cycle: launch the game, hope it works, enter Ultimate Team, watch everything break for no reason, restart the game multiple times, restart the PC, pray it works again. Sometimes it magically does, and I get a few hours of smooth gameplay. Then, without changing anything, I open the game again and it collapses into stuttering, lag, broken animations, and menus moving at 5 frames per second. This inconsistency is unbearable. I have done every single fix known to mankind. Reset settings, edited config files, swapped between DirectX 11 and 12, cleared all cache folders, optimized GPU settings, changed resolutions, updated BIOS, chipset, GPU, audio drivers, disabled game overlays, disabled background tasks, changed monitors, tried with and without my external 180Hz monitor, used different cables, tested controller modes, even reformatted parts of the system. None of this matters because the issue is not on my side. This is a problem inside Ultimate Team specifically. I can play Career Mode flawlessly. I can play any other game I own flawlessly. Only Ultimate Team behaves like this: GPU suddenly spikes to 100%, CPU temps jump randomly, input delay appears out of nowhere, stutter gets worse every minute, and menus become unresponsive until the game is restarted. And the worst part is the complete lack of communication. EA refuses to acknowledge the severity of the issue. There are hundreds of reports, all describing the same symptoms, dating from launch until today, and nothing has been done. Patches come and go and the performance issues remain exactly the same or get worse. People with hardware far better than mine are experiencing the same problems. People with weaker hardware experience the same problems. It’s not a user-side issue, it’s not a settings issue, it’s not a driver issue, and it’s not an isolated case. The fact that I can play perfectly one moment and then have the game collapse on the next launch without touching anything proves beyond any doubt that the issue is the game itself. We are in December. No player should have to restart the game five times in a row just to hope that Ultimate Team decides to run normally. No one should pay for Early Access and then spend months trying to get the game to behave like something stable. This is unacceptable, embarrassing and disrespectful to the entire PC community. EA needs to stop ignoring this situation and actually deliver a real fix. Not a temporary workaround, not a small patch that changes nothing. A real solution that makes Ultimate Team stable, consistent and playable every time it is launched. Enough is enough.

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