My Game Will Not Start

I don't know what EA did, but I cannot get my game to start at all. All I get is the black screen of death and have to bring up the Task Manage to close it. I updated my graphics settings so that's not an issue that I'm aware of. Is there anything else that would prevent the game from loading?

Edit to add, I believe that this prob started when EA created that EA Play app. I didn't have any problems before that. I have the original disk version