Plants Vs Zombies: Battle for Neigborville won't load.

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Hello!I recently got Battle for Neighborville off of Origin Vault Access, and I got very excited to play it, as my PC met all of the requirements, how ever, when launching the game, it does the easy anti-cheat load, then a black window appears, titled, "PVZ Battle for Neighborville", and it stays like that, and never shuts down or boots up the game, it's just a black window.Can anyone possibly help with this?&nbsp;Thank you.

kingkongus · Answer

@633515 me too! just bought it now, installed it, got that same black window that does nothing so i updated graphics card, ran as admin, added it to my nvidia graphics card, clean startup, restarted, ran in safe mode, still nada. been searching forums for solutions. . . why is this being sold if it's not working?

iluminatethesky · Answer

Hey&nbsp;@633515

@kingkongus&nbsp;

Can you try repairing the "Picnic" file in the EasyAntiCheat Folder?

Make sure you're fully closed out of Origin, including Task manager.

Go to where you have Battle for Neighborville installed, open the Easy Anti Cheat Folder, and you should see a "EasyAntiCheat_setup.exe" file there.

Open that, select "Picnic" from the drop down menu, and click Repair.

Then, run Origin and Battle for Neighborville as Administrator, and let us know if you're able to launch the game.

Thanks 🙂

- iluminate

kingkongus · Answer

@633515 Hey, just wanna let you know that it worked for me after reading another person's post: you have to keep opening and closing both origin and the PVZ game at the same time using task manager as admin. eventually, one of the tries will lead to a white pop-cap screen and the game should work fine 😉

kingkongus · Answer

@iluminatethesky thanks, tried it, but still didn't work after many other methods. another person's post, however, gave me successful results--just force opening and closing origin and pvz as admin with task manager 5~6 times until white pop-cap screen comes on in full screen mode. basically, just forced it. am currently in game now and playing. not sure how though.

iluminatethesky · Answer

@kingkongus

Did you try creating a new Temporary Windows User Account as well, and trying to launch the game under that Account?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4026923/windows-10-create-a-local-user-or-administrator-account

I don't think force closing/opening the game is a good solution, there should be something else that can resolve this.

If you're still having issues, you can also reach out to Support to see if there's other possible solutions:

https://help.ea.com/en/contact-us/

Or via Direct Message on Twitter: Twitter.com/EAHelp

Thanks 🙂

- iluminate

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