i bought the game a week ago and cant finish a single game online
I’ve been playing FIFA/EA FC on PC for like 6 years and never had a single issue… until FC 26. This year I literally can’t finish a single Rivals match.
The game launches fine, but sometimes the menus randomly drop to like 5 FPS. Restarting usually fixes that. The real problem is Rivals. Every time I load into a Rivals match, one of two things happens:
- The FPS drops to 5–10 and the whole match becomes unplayable, OR
- The game goes into full slow-motion with massive input delay (like 5–10 seconds).
After a minute or two of this, the match usually crashes.
Rush mode works perfectly. Other modes work. Only Rivals is broken for me.
I’ve spent over 10 hours trying every fix I could find — updating drivers, reinstalling anticheat, deleting leftover files, verifying game files, reinstalling the EA App, changing graphics settings, turning off overlays, power settings, BIOS settings… nothing has solved it.
Right now the only way I can “play” is if I cap the game to 30 FPS with V-Sync off, but that’s not enjoyable at all.
If anyone had this exact issue and managed to fix it, please let me know. I’m honestly losing my mind at this point.
Specs:
RTX 3050 4GB
i5 10th-gen
16GB RAM
Thanks in advance.
