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