Not working? Black screen + game insta-crashing/not starting recently? READ THIS.

[Nikedemos]

It's not just you. It's broken for most people. Don't waste your time with any of the proposed boilerplate busywork, like running the game with administrator permissions or in a compatibility mode. Or installing / reinstalling anything / clearing your save files.
The game has been unplayable because of the Windows update about 2-3 months ago. Here's the thing though: it is against terms of service for a publisher to be selling a broken product on the Steam store front. There's simply no way EA is unaware of the issue: if there's a sharp drop in the daily played hours, no way a data-oriented corporation would not see it in their detailed reports. They must know.

Whether Steam knows, I have no idea. So let's make sure.

Please report the game as "Broken" by clicking on the "Report" button (flag icon) in the right column. Eventually, if enough people complain, something will be done about this: either the game will be finally fixed, OR it will be taken off the storefront, preventing poor souls from being duped into buying a dud.

We can't just sit here, magically expecting a solution to materialise itself. The more people take LITERALLY A MINUTE to report the issue (make sure you describe exactly what it is: the game crashes instantly and is unable to launch any more, making the product unplayable), the more likelihood we'll all be back burning rubber in Seacrest County!

DISCLAIMER: This is NOT a call to action to raid, harass, dox or even contact anybody associated with EA, Criterion Games or Steam, or any other first, second or third parties, or perform anything other than filling out a TRUTHFUL report about to Steam, using provided means, about the current state of the game, in order to protect current and existing consumers' interests.

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Thanks to ur tip
I reported