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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EA_Groguet
Community Manager
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
@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.
