Splash Screen Crash | FC 26
No matter what I do, FC 26 won't get past the anti-cheat screen. It was working just fine two weeks ago.
I open the game and the anticheat screen pops up, as normally. It loads for a moment until it gets to "Launching game", but the moment that this screen disappears, nothing happens, and the EA App opens again. No error message, no nothing.
I've already tried:
- Uninstall/Repair EA Anti-Cheat.
- Start EA Anti-Cheat as admin.
- Start EA App as admin.
- Start the game directly from the files, even as admin.
- Update Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable.
- Restart the PC multiple times (I've had this issue for two weeks now).
- Uninstall the game and reinstall it.
- Verify the game files through Steam.
- Change the game's language.
- Update Windows.
- Update graphics card drivers.
- Uninstall and reinstall EA App.
- Clear EA App's cache.
- Disable every possible in-game overlay (Nvidia, Discord, SteelSeries, MSI Afterburner, etc.)
- Start the game in offline mode.
- Assign my game to the GPU and set graphics to high performance.
- Update BIOS.
- Disabling my antivirus (I only have Windows Defender.)
- And MUCH more things I can't even remember.
The only thing that works is logging in from another Microsoft account and launching the game from there. I don't know how that makes any sense, but I'm not switching accounts every time I want to play this game.
I have FC 24, FC 25, PvZ Garden Warfare 2 and Battle for Neighborville installed, and they all work fine. It's just FC 26.
I tried both with the showcase, and the full game. I ended up refunding the game because of this, and I will not buy it back until this gets fixed. This is unacceptable for a multibillion dollar company.
