I am having the same exact problem. I have filed a case with EA Help, with no communication or help yet. My game is not set to run as an Administrator. I have tried nearly every other suggestion on here and on other forums and nothing works. I wholeheartedly agree with the OP's sentiment. It is maddening that I am not able to play a game that I paid for when I want to. What is my recourse? At the very least some acknowledgement that there is a problem that needs to be rectified would be appreciated, but I have seen nothing. I guess there is just nothing to be done about it and EA is happy to take people's money and then, two years later, just revoke their product without notice or compensation. It's not right and everyone knows it.
Community ManagerThank you for the response. I have checked the Run as Administrator, tried changing the language setting to the Beta: Use Unicode-UTF 8 in Control Panel under the Region settings, I have tried verifying game files, I have tried reverting back to Origin (which I was unable to accomplish). Everything short of uninstalling and reinstalling because my internet isn't the fastest and would rather not wait a day for the game to re-download (especially if it still wouldn't fix the issue, which from what I've read is likely to be the case). I have attached what you asked to this post and I will update my case in EA Help with it as well.
Community ManagerI don't want you to have to do that either. Can you make sure to set the game to run off the Nvidia card and not the Intel chipset?
You can do that with these steps here
What it seems is one of two things -
1. Either something on your PC is blocking it
2. OR it is using dedicated non-supported hardware like the intel chip.
Again, thank you for your response. I did as was suggested and changed the NVidia setting. The game didn't launch and I recieved the same error. Also, extrapplating from your possible causes, I tried launching the game without any virus protection turned on, with no success. I also added the MELE Launcher as an app allowed passed the Firewall, also no change. Still recieveing the same error message that there is an error on EA's end and please try again in a little while. Also, attempting to launch the game from Steam, the EA app, and even directly from the games files all result in the same error.
