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Henrique200005
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3 months ago

Severe Low FPS Makes EA FC 26 Unplayable

I’m experiencing a critical performance issue while playing EA FC 26 on PC that completely breaks the gameplay. During matches, the game suddenly drops to extremely low FPS (around 4–10 FPS), while audio and commentary continue normally.

The issue can occur at any point during the match, including halftime or the second half. From my experience, it seems to be triggered only after using Alt+Tab or when exiting the in-game pause menu, but it does not happen consistently, which makes it unpredictable and extremely frustrating. Once the FPS drops, it remains in this broken state until the game is completely restarted.

I would like to note that this issue has also occurred on my laptop with an RTX 3050, so it does not appear to be limited to my main PC.

This is not a minor stutter or temporary slowdown — this is a severe performance breakdown that ruins the flow of the match and makes playing extremely difficult.

My System (main PC):
CPU: Intel i5-14600KF
GPU: AMD RX 7600
RAM: 32 GB
Display: 1920×1080 @ 164 Hz
Platform: PC (EA App)

Given how severe and disruptive this bug is, I urgently request that this issue be escalated to the QA / Frostbite team for immediate investigation. This is a reproducible problem that affects the core gameplay experience, both offline and online.

Thank you for your attention.

39 Replies

  • Rusko2402's avatar
    Rusko2402
    Rising Newcomer
    3 months ago

    Rivals is unplayable for me - Almost every match, the 1st half is fine (although usually small lag spikes) Then, 2nd half begins and it's literally 10 frames or less. it won't even allow me to pause to leave the match a lot of the time, so I either have to spectate a laggy mess or Alt F4. Also sometimes happens in squad battles but less frequently. 

  • tomertap's avatar
    tomertap
    Rising Newcomer
    3 months ago

    Same problem.

    Even with Intel i7 and above 300mb Internet.

    Other games work fine, the issue is just in this game.

  • Same here,  absolute slideshow and huge lag. ~30% CPU ~40%GPU utilisation. Tried all sorts of "tweaks" nothing touches it. I notice the anti-cheat ramps up matching the lag spikes, not sure if its just a coincidence

    ProcessorAMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
    Video CardNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
    Operating SystemWindows 11
    RAM64 GB

    Strangely averaging 120 fps on overkill setting in BF6 with >90% utilisation

  • I have the same problem. Bought the game three days ago had no problems at all first two days. All of a sudden started playing yesterday and the game is completely unplayable, stuttering, lagging, choppy whatever you want to call it nothing has worked in the settings to rectify it. Tried optimizing through nvidia and something about direct x pops up shutting the game down at this point I’m happy to get a refund and never play this **bleep** again.

  • I got the same problem, this happen on rivals, squad battle, online season, is so randomly.  Sometimes this keep in the menus, but another times just finish the match and back to normal. I must use  Alt+Enter combination for finish the online match, but this is unplayable.

  • Same issue here. 

    System info: 
    Laptop: HP Victus 15
    System info:
    Ryzen 5 5600h
    Nvidia 3050 
    32 GB RAM
    500 GB SSD
    Windows 11

    EA seriously can’t make a game without issues. What a joke.

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