EA WRC not starting after 1.9 patch
At Steam, it shows the ea wrc mini splash screen and then it just comes back to the green PLAY button again.
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Make sure Secure Boot is enabled in your BIOS. That's what was causing my crash
EA_Groguet
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Community ManagerHey there,
Thank you very much for your reports. I have escalated this to the game team, but they will need more information. Can you share your IDs in a private message?
-Groguet
It would appear this issue happens for most when the game is not installed on the C: drive. I have the same issue but unfortunately do not have enough space on my C: drive to move the game.
Can you advise me on a work around for this?
With a lot of time and effort i managed to free up 90Gb on my C-drive.
Reinstalled the game on my C-drive ( which is an M-2) through steam, but the game still won't start. It shows the splash screen twice and then crashes
Game still doesn't work. Only splashscreen.
Also Anticheat FAQ page still error 500.
Thought i'd link this in - SennaMental on steam community forums found that renaming the openXR folder at "\steamapps\common\EA SPORTS WRC\Engine\Binaries\ThirdParty" allowed their game to start.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1849250/discussions/0/6361980659846943370/
Your solution does not work for me.
I almost believed it ☹️
Having same issue, try to start game looks like it's trying to start then exits.. check eventlogs and see the
EAAntiCheatService
Failed to obtain Origin directorywas working yesterday and won't launch today..
I have the same problem... please FIX ASAP
Yep, sad story. I can't run the game neither on my Win11 machine nor on my SteamDeck. I contacted EA support to figure out what was possible and after getting through two different agents asking me similar questions (similar to what you get if you call your cable support, them asking you if you plugged your TV) and giving random instructions such as stopping system services from Intel used by the cpu/mb, the second agent ended up telling me, quote "you bought the game almost a year ago we cannot support you further".
Ok ?! 😮
Have the same issue. Clearly as a result of anti cheat. Game is completely broken now and no fix in sight. What a pity, especially with the new DLC on the horizon.
No point in buying it if I can't even get the game to launch.
- @EA_Groguet Send 3 weeks ago a DM… no response, nothing. Game still don’t work afterm1.9. No quick patch or any form of solution…
Posting this on behalf of an EA WRC discord member called Pepper
I have been struggling with this issue since the 1.9 patch as well. I notice there are a few different ways in which the game does not start for people. For me, I get to the start of the fullscreen EA logo splash, then it instantly crashes to desktop without an error given.
I have already tried
* Verifying the installation.
* Full uninstall and reinstall
* Renaming the movie file that runs the EA logo splash, but that just makes it crash earlier
* Turning off all services and startup programs
* Checked if SecureBoot is enabled (it is)
* Checked event logs for errors
* Wanted to run ProcMon while starting the game, but the anti cheat spyware does not allow this
* Renaming some folder that a user said can fix the issue
* Every other suggestion offered by users that I've read but forgot about by nowSaw this potential fix posted on Reddit. Tried it and manually running "EAAntiCheatGameServiceLauncher.exe" worked for me. Haven't had a single problem launching the game from Steam since doing that.
Make sure the game is installed on your C: drive
Go to C: Program Files (x86): Steam: steamapps: common: EA SPORTS WRC: WRC: Binaries: Win64
Right click on "EAAntiCheatGameServiceLauncher.exe"
Select "Run as administrator" (not sure if running as admin is even necessary, but better safe than sorry).
The EA Sports WRC pop-up should appear, with the little white loading bar at the bottom. The bar should load, and after this some new files should be dumped in the folder. After that, the EA Sports WRC pop up should disappear.
Right click WRC.exe and "run as administrator".
After that you should be able to exit the game, and from then launch the game normally from Steam using the green "Play" button. I've tried launching the game from Steam three times and every time it now launches without issue.
It seems that the files that manually running the "EAAntiCheatGameServiceLauncher.exe" as detailed above dumps into the folder named above are required for the game to launch properly since Patch 1.09.
@EA_Groguet wrote:Hey there,
Thank you very much for your reports. I have escalated this to the game team
-Groguet
@EA_Groguet, out of curiosity I checked further and the same issue is affecting all of EA games basically, whatever the launcher, whatever the systems, so it is linked to the anti-cheat and whatever conflict it may have with the end user machines, nothing to do with the game version. The game team can most likely do nothing about this. Reach out to the Anticheat developpers so that get fixed accross the board for all games. Their kernel level programming issues are going to ruin EA customer potential overall if nothing is done. I guess we all saw what kernel level bad code can do a month ago, right ?
most of their sales are probably on consoles, while this seems to be a PC related problem for those of us who run stuff on different parts of their harddrive while the C: only players seem not to be affected, like the consoles. Still waiting for some sort of solution, meanwhile I'll fire up Sebastian Loeb Rally again, lol.
