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1 year ago

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NFS Unbound+ EA App poorly designed

This app is truly miserable. First time installing this game about 2 weeks ago, I had to become a full time PC expert just to manage to fire up the game 1 day later. Worked (kinda) ok for 2 weeks. To...

technical issues

danisoff
1 year ago
Hello @LunguR7_,
If you buy the game on Steam, every time when you launch the game the EA app will have to start. This is the case for every EA game that is launched though Steam. You should try launching the game directly from the EA app.
The EA app crashing could be fixed by reinstalling the EA app.
Best regards,
danisoff

danisoff

Hero+

1 year ago

Hello @LunguR7_,

If you buy the game on Steam, every time when you launch the game the EA app will have to start. This is the case for every EA game that is launched though Steam. You should try launching the game directly from the EA app.

The EA app crashing could be fixed by reinstalling the EA app.

Best regards,

danisoff

JTAlweezy

1 year ago

I just tried to play Need for speed unbound through steam and it has been months maybe a year since i last played. The game insta crashes after spawning the EA app, which disappears and reappears with no running game.

Windows event viewer shows this in the application logs:

Faulting application name: NeedForSpeedUnbound.exe, version: 1.0.8.2549, time stamp: 0x675717ea
Faulting module name: NeedForSpeedUnbound.exe, version: 1.0.8.2549, time stamp: 0x675717ea
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000006644abd
Faulting process id: 0x0x980C
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DB4D6BD1C3F572
Faulting application path: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Excalibur\NeedForSpeedUnbound.exe
Faulting module path: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Excalibur\NeedForSpeedUnbound.exe
Report Id: 33935dbc-dcf5-41b9-9dcc-370efdefe97a
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Fault bucket 1850120601731524173, type 4
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: NeedForSpeedUnbound.exe
P2: 1.0.8.2549
P3: 675717ea
P4: NeedForSpeedUnbound.exe
P5: 1.0.8.2549
P6: 675717ea
P7: c0000005
P8: 0000000006644abd
P9:
P10:

Attached files:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.e8f4fd9f-41b7-4af9-971e-456d6255bc87.tmp.dmp
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.9f6fb43e-894c-4693-8545-74a5d9059c30.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.bf0bb5c2-d3c0-473b-8e1f-75a097e5a7c4.tmp.csv
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.baceb358-be47-4d59-a473-2a7bc55518f4.tmp.txt
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.54ec8bec-16fa-432c-a9c7-efaced63b74c.tmp.xml

These files may be available here:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_NeedForSpeedUnbo_35dfac59c163c7f67eb95be4274cb71069cb9934_bb77f702_f424c446-deb3-488d-b5ec-185467cb50e1

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 33935dbc-dcf5-41b9-9dcc-370efdefe97a
Report Status: 268435456
Hashed bucket: 5334192113ef5b6f99acf2e289d6e64d
Cab Guid: 0