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Pakitochico2
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2 months ago

[URGENT] Slow motion / FPS drop at halftime (PC) — EA FC 26

Summary:
On my PC, EA FC 26 runs perfectly fine during the first half, but **right at halftime** (when the cutscenes/highlights are shown) the game suddenly drops to slow motion or 4–10 FPS. Commentary and audio remain normal. I have tried DX11, disabling motion blur, disabling dynamic resolution, and editing overrideAutodetect.lua without success.

My system:
- CPU: Intel i7 13th gen
- GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3050
- RAM: 16 GB
- Display: 1920x1080 144Hz
- Platform: EA App

What I have already tried:
- Forcing `-dx11` (launch options)
- Editing `overrideAutodetect.lua` (StrandBasedHair=0, MotionBlur=0, DynamicResolution=0) and setting it to read-only
- Disabling dynamic resolution and motion blur in-game
- Repairing/verifying game files via EA App
- Disabling all overlays (NVIDIA, Discord, Xbox Game Bar, EA overlay)
- Alt+Enter / Alt+Tab / switching to borderless windowed
- Clean reinstall of NVIDIA drivers (using clean install option)
- Setting Windows power plan to High performance.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start any match (offline or online).
2. Play until halftime.
3. Let the halftime cutscene/load screen play.
4. When the second half begins, the gameplay is extremely slow (almost unplayable), but audio/commentary is unaffected.

Please escalate this bug to the Frostbite/QA team: it is reproducible and has a severe impact on gameplay. Thank you.

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