Try these steps to fix EA games crashing or freezing on your PC, PlayStation 4 or 5, or Xbox One and Series X|S.
PC
If your game keeps crashing or freezing, try the steps in this article about closing background apps.
If you’re still having problems, try these steps:
- Perform a clean boot of your PC to disable background tasks that may be interfering with your game.
- Reinstall your game and the EA app.
- Repair the game files in the EA app. Go to Library and find your game. Click the Manage icon, then click Repair.
- If there’s an option available, try capping your frame rate. You can also enable Vertical Sync (V-Sync), to match your frame rate to your display’s refresh rate.
- You can usually turn on V-Sync in your game’s graphics settings menu.
- If V-Sync isn’t available as an option in your game, you can find it through your graphic card’s Control Panel. For more info, check your GPU manufacturer’s help documentation.
PlayStation 4 and 5
- Make sure you have the latest software update.
- Restart your console.
- Perform a power cycle.
- Touch the power button on the front of the console for at least seven seconds until the system beeps twice.
- Turn it back on after one minute.
- Launch your game.
- Unplug any devices attached to the USB slot.
- Reinstall your game. If you're using an external hard drive, consider installing it on the internal drive to see if that helps.
- If your game supports Voice Chat to Text functionality, turn this off in your audio or accessibility settings menu.
- Restore the license for the game.
- Go to Settings on your PlayStation.
- Click Account Management then Restore Licenses.
Xbox One and Series X|S
- Make sure you have the latest software update.
- Restart your console.
- Perform a power cycle.
- Unplug any devices attached to the USB slot.
- Reinstall the game. If you're using an external hard drive, consider installing it on the internal drive to see if that helps.
- Clear the MAC Address.
- From the Xbox dashboard, click Settings, then go to All Settings.
- Go to Network, then Network Settings.
- Click Advanced Settings, then Alternate MAC address.
- Select Clear, then restart your Xbox.
- Delete the local saved data.
- Head over to EA Forums to get help from the community.
- Follow @EAHelp for everything from outage info to game news.
- Subscribe to EA Help on YouTube for video walkthroughs and guides.
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