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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Open XR did not fix it for me.
Support suggested to move game to another drive (originally was on C in the default folder) - AntiCheat got even worse.
Reinstalled everything on C in the correct place, back to Anticheat cannot obtain Origin folder. Installed legacy Origin client - no luck.
Went and bought the game in EA App as it is currently 14EUR.
Now when i launch the EA version game loads, connects to EA servers and crashes immediately. Support suggested trying to connect from another internet source, but as I don't have WiFi on the game PC I cannot. Stage thing was that my Steam and EA accounts are connected, but EA version did not see my profile and suggested creating new one.
I am continuing trying different ideas, but it looks i will be refunding the EA app version pretty soon as it is also unplayable but with different problem..
Still no news of a patch or anything. My game launches very sporadically now.
Sometimes it will launch, sometimes it won't. No idea why.
Absolutely disgraceful the state of this game. They have new DLC coming - why would anyone buy it when there's no guarantee they will even be able to play it?
It's clearly related to Anti-cheat since everything worked fine before patch 1.9. They need to roll the game back or disable anti-cheat for now until they can work out a fix.
EA where are you????? We are so much that we can't use the game we bought, so what are you waiting to react??
Good evening. I solved this problem like this. I just maked symbolick link on "EA SPORTS WRC" folder in my C disk.
With this command in console: mklink /d "path to ea sports folder" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam".
This command make symbolick link to ea sports folder in other disk (not C) into ea sports forlder in disk C.
@ALALEKSANDR wrote:Good evening. I solved this problem like this. I just maked symbolick link on "EA SPORTS WRC" folder in my C disk.
With this command in console: mklink /d "path to ea sports folder" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam".
This command make symbolick link to ea sports folder in other disk (not C) into ea sports forlder in disk C.
This is elegant solution to circle around the folder issue, I think it was listed couple if pages back.
For most if us though the anticheat client fails for different reason (my game is already installed ik the Original folder). Support even suggested to me to move to different drive 0.0
I personally get “Anticheat cannot get hold of Origin folder” which is total nonsense. I even installed the legacy Origin client to no avail.
Also bought the game on EA app store which has totally different structure. Now it launches but right after connecting to server it crashes to desktop without any errors showing or recorded so it is impossible to debug. Any idea if I can find somewhere in a log file what is triggering the anticheat failure? It is clearly the culprit here, but I do not want to reinstall the whole machine for my game to work after the issue is clearly in the questionable software EA pushed on us.
I have second PC but it does not support games, there the EA App version works, I will test the Steam one as well, but this is 0 help in debugging the real issue…
