The game crashes with a standard access violation code and a "AppHangB1" event.
This is a problem that is often Graphic-driver related and seeing that updating the driver already made a difference I would suggest a clean reinstallation of the driver.
Follow this guide to the letter > Test.
You might want to preform a clean boot and test the Game in clean boot mode as well.
Disable your virus scanner and software like Afterburner as well if you use it.
Then it is most probably a network or routing problem.
Are you on a private or a public (university) network?
Does your EA Account email address or username contain special characters?
Restart your router in this way:
Pull the power plug > wait 5 minutes > return the power plug
If that not helps, shut down your Windows firewall and disable the real-time scanner of your antivirus software.. (just for testing purpose, don't forget to activate the firewall and the antivirus software later on.)
Should it work after you disabled the firewall, here is a description how to allow a program to communicate through the firewall.
This ports must be open on your Router:
Origin Ports
TCP: 80; 443; 9960-9969; 1024-1124; 3216; 18000; 18120; 18060; 27900; 28910; 29900
UDP: 1024-1124; 18000; 29900
Me3 Port
Port 3659
Clearing your DNS cache. or testing a google DNS could also help.
If that not helps here is a EA connection troubleshooting guide.
