Please Help

I'm trying to run Titanfall 2 on PC, purchased on Steam while running the EA app in the background

It freezes no matter what I try. Online it freezes seconds after entering the main menu. Offline the menu works but the game freezes on the loading screen before any actual gameplay.

I have reinstalled both apps, and the game. Running everything in administrator. Rolling back and updating Windows and NVIDIA drivers for separate testing. I have added the updated OPEN SSL environment variable. I have disabled all overlays. I have disabled full screen optimizations.

The problem still persists.

My gut tells me it's something with the EA app. It always is. Effectively EA has destroyed my digital property that wasn't even purchased from EA. I currently have absolutely no way of playing it.

If anyone has had experience with this, please tell me how you fixed it.

7800x3d, 5070 ti, 32gn ram, Windows 11