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TurboZino
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8 months ago

How to disable/uninstall game complements on the EA App?

I've had issues regarding my savefile for the past few days thanks to reaching a very high filesize and it's now constantly giving me issues where some kind of problem probably related to F03 is not allowing me to acquire anything new into my inventory after playing a race or participating in Lockdown.

I've read an article on reddit about a possible fix that many others are reporting it works for this situation, but it involves "Uninstalling and Re-installing DLCs"

While Steam allows you to swiftly disable the additional contents of any game on it's platform, it seems like the EA App just..... doesn't, and I have Unbound only through EA App... 
The nerve to have a "Manage" button alongside the play button that let's you see all DLC Downloaded, yet none of it can be ticked off or even be interacted with...

I saw in an old post on the Sims 4 forums that someone mentioned running a command to disable packs through "Advanced Launch Options" was enough to do the trick, but in that case they have their own code to point to which packs will be disabled

so the questions are....
How can I run my game with my Expansions Disabled through EA App?
If I were to use a launch through "Advanced  Launch Options" what would it be, and which "Game Packs" do I type in?

Hoping for a quick response, I've missed out on last week's top reward and now I'm missing out on this week's Rap Rewards and I find that frustrating....

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  • Attempt to boost this up...

    This is something I don't think anyone but EA Employees have knowledge on it

  • EA_cuervo's avatar
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    7 months ago

    Hey there, 

    There's no way to disable DLCs or additional content through the EA app. If there is any extra content that you do not want on your account anymore, you can contact EA Help Support and request it to be removed.

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    7 months ago

    This might be problematic...

    It's not like I don't want to have all my DLCs, I just need to temporarily disable them to fix an issue that seems to be caused by the entitlements of the DLCs, causing my savefile to corrupt, attempting to fix it always ends up getting back into a corrupt state since the fix requires to disable and Refresh DLCs and then turn them back on.

    It's frustrating that this can be done with Consoles and the Steam Version of the game, but not with the EA App version.

    And I'm not expecting any patches coming soon as last one wasn't too long ago that was implemented

  • Lol I’ll give you the best response you’ll get here.

    they. don’t. care.

    I upgraded to the ultimate edition and am now permanently stuck out of my game. Every time I try to launch it, it syncs my inventory, gets to 10/13 items then gives me an error refusing to access online.

    The only fix to this is deleting your save file from the EA folder, which will let you access online but guess what? Everything is gone. Story mode progress, progress towards cars in multiplayer, old battle pass progress, all content from them.. everything will be gone.

    Thats the payment you get in return for trying to support need for speed. There’s no customer support or answers, they won’t even care enough to reply if the problem is out of their reach. That’s pretty much everything man. I’ve been dealing with this since the last update and it’s messed up. All I wanted to do was play the game and I’m punished for it. Your best bet is to just wait. Maybe sometime next year they’ll release a patch. Which, is also unlikely, seeing this issue has been a problem since launch on console. (:

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    7 months ago

    Yeah I've been through the whole life of this Games' inception as much as I love this game I do have a feeling of exhaustion for trying to find workarounds to all the technical issues that it has

    And whilst I do feel down in hopes that anything will change, I'll refuse to just stop trying and just fall into the pit of living in a miserable state.

    It may be very naive of my part, but I want to at least believe that someone can reach out and help at some point if I maintain a bit of integrity and respect.

    I'm very disappointed but not really about the people behind doing their job, but by mostly decisions that come from upper management

    The game wouldn't be in such a bad state for recurring players if it wasn't for their workforce being cut thin because they somehow need multiple dev studios working on one single shooter that probably won't be as popular as the suits believe

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    7 months ago

    @TurboZino the problem you're experiencing seems to be related to this one: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/NFS-Unbound-error-F03-after-buying-ultimate-pack/td-p/14222511

    Can you please try the workaround mentioned there? 

    - Log into the game
    - Disconnect from the internet
    - Reconnect
    - Go back to Unbound and make sure it's in offline mode
    - Click to go back online.

    One of the users mentioned selling the cars that were added through the Ultimate Edition, but please try the workaround without selling them and let us know if that works for you.

  • This doesn’t work because you can’t get online in the first place to even access your inventory let alone delete a car. Hence why the original post says they wanted to disable the dlc, to go into the game and delete the cars that are causing a problem. The solution you just stated is for console only regardless, had anyone at the EA team decided to really read these post instead of automated responses 90% of the time, these issues would get fixed.

  • TurboZino's avatar
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    7 months ago
    @EA_cuervo Sadly this is the method I've been using for the past few weeks, and while it is useful to fix it temporarily in order to at least enter a Freeroam Session or Playlist... It sadly is a very temporary and unstable method as my savefile corrupts again as soon as I do any of the following things:

    - Win a reward on the speedpass
    - Win direct cash from any method (Race, Chase, Challenge Reward)
    - Swap Vehicles in Lockdown mode

    it basically makes it so I can't really enjoy some modes and after finishing an event and going back into the garage/main lobby, makes it impossible to rejoin any session until I do the process again

    Lockdown becomes Unplayable thanks to this

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