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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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…
EA_GroguetCommunity Manager
Hi there,
Sorry for the delay. The team is still investigating this issue. Meanwhile, can you try the next steps to see if it solves your issue?
- Try running the game with no other applications running except for the minimum required for the Operating System and Steam or EA App. Once the game runs, start turning things back on and restarting the game each time. The moment the game doesn't boot - that's the piece of software it doesn't like.
- Remove any mods from the game that have been installed. The only things we support are custom configs for telemetry and the input system. The easiest way to do this is uninstall the game from steam, then locate the old folder and make sure it's completely empty before re-installing.
- Remove any other dll based mods for things like DirectX. We've seen mods that alter some of the DirectX dll's to add hooks to allow for other mods to run and changes to game data.
-Groguet
