EA SPORTS FC 25 freezes on startup on PC (EA App) – no official solution yet

Hello everyone,

I’m posting this because I’ve run into a game-breaking startup issue with EA SPORTS FC 25 on PC, and it seems I’m far from the only one.

Issue description

When launching FC 25 via the EA App on PC, the game gets past the initial input prompt but then freezes immediately on the next screen (see attached screenshot). It never loads any further, making the game completely unplayable.

What I’ve tried

• Restarting the game and PC
• Reinstalling the game
• Deleting personal settings and recreating them (community workaround)

Unfortunately, while I can recreate the settings, the game still freezes on the exact same screen afterwards. So this workaround does not fix the issue for me.

System specifications

• OS: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit (Build 22631)
• CPU: Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 285K
• GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
• RAM: 64 GB DDR5 (6000 MHz)
• Motherboard: Z890 GAMING X WIFI7
• Storage: Samsung 990 PRO SSD 2TB

So this is clearly not a hardware limitation.

Concern

There are multiple threads on this forum describing the same problem, yet there is still no official response or solution from EA. For a paid title, this really shouldn’t be acceptable.

Request

If anyone from EA or the community team is reading this:

• Is this issue acknowledged?
• Is a fix being worked on?
• Is there any official workaround that actually works?

At this point, I simply want to be able to play the game I paid for.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help or share useful information.