This means EA AntiCheat starts, but the game crashes shortly after loading or after the anti-cheat splash. Clearing the crash cause gets you in. Jump to your situation below or work through the methods in order.
When the EA AntiCheat splash appears and then the game crashes after loading, or crashes to desktop shortly after you reach the menu, the anti-cheat itself is starting, so the problem is usually with the game or graphics side rather than the anti-cheat's install. The common causes are outdated or unstable GPU drivers, corrupted game files, overlays injecting into the game, and an outdated EA AntiCheat. The fixes are to update your GPU drivers (a clean install if crashes are frequent), verify or repair the game files so nothing is corrupted, and turn off overlays from Discord, NVIDIA GeForce Experience, Steam and Xbox Game Bar, which commonly cause post-load crashes with kernel anti-cheats. Then repair EA AntiCheat with EAAntiCheat.Installer.exe and add EAAC.exe and the game to your antivirus exclusions. If crashes continue, testing at stock GPU and memory clocks and lowering in-game graphics settings rules out a stability or performance cause. Because the anti-cheat is loading fine, these game-side fixes usually stop the crash.
If the EA AntiCheat splash shows before the crash, the anti-cheat is starting correctly, so a crash after loading points to the game or graphics side: outdated or unstable GPU drivers, corrupted game files, an injecting overlay, or an out-of-date anti-cheat.
Game-side fixes resolve it: update GPU drivers, verify the game files, and turn off overlays. Repairing EA AntiCheat and adding it to antivirus exclusions covers the anti-cheat side, and testing at stock clocks rules out an overclock.
“If you see the anti-cheat splash and then it crashes, that is good news in a way, the anti-cheat is fine, so I stop chasing it and look at the game. GPU drivers first, a clean install if it is crashing a lot. Verify the game files. Then kill the overlays, Discord, GeForce Experience, Steam, Game Bar, because overlays injecting into a game protected by a kernel anti-cheat is a classic post-load crash. Repair EA AntiCheat and whitelist it, and if it still crashes, test at stock clocks.”
EAAntiCheat.Installer.exe.EAAC.exe and your game to antivirus exclusions.If an EA AntiCheat game crashes after the splash or after loading, the anti-cheat is starting so the fix is game-side: update GPU drivers, verify or repair the game files, and turn off overlays from Discord, GeForce Experience, Steam and Xbox Game Bar. Repair EA AntiCheat, add EAAC.exe and the game to antivirus exclusions, and test at stock clocks.
If the game still crashes after loading despite driver updates, a file verify and disabling overlays, lower the in-game graphics settings and check temperatures, since thermal throttling or a marginal GPU can crash only once the game is rendering. You can also submit your error to us for a tailored fix.