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Snake Sep 25, 2024 @ 11:34pm
Game doesn't launch
I get the EA pop-up saying "preparing game", then nothing.

What even is this buggy mess?
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Devedeu 2 Sep 26, 2024 @ 4:18am 
I had the same issue and I was going insane, but somehow putting the NFS Unbound folder (steamapps/common/Excalibur) in the exclusions in Windows Defender made the issue happen a lot less
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Snake Sep 26, 2024 @ 4:42am 
Originally posted by Devedeu 2:
I had the same issue and I was going insane, but somehow putting the NFS Unbound folder (steamapps/common/Excalibur) in the exclusions in Windows Defender made the issue happen a lot less

Yeah, no, I refunded this mess. I'm not jumping through hoops for this.
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FrostyStardust Sep 26, 2024 @ 4:45am 
The solution that worked for me is frustratingly simple.

Turn off the in game overlay in the EA app
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Snake Sep 26, 2024 @ 6:21am 
Hmmm... I might give this a try, if it's known to fix things...
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XvII Sep 26, 2024 @ 8:20pm 
You can allways run the game via EA app or from game folder with admin rights and it will start. :imSorry:
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AEon Oct 10, 2024 @ 6:53pm 
Originally posted by FrostyStardust:
The solution that worked for me is frustratingly simple.
Turn off the in game overlay in the EA app

After a few tries the EA Launcher would not load when you try to run NFS Unbound from Steam. To manually launch the launcher I ran:

C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EA Desktop\EA Desktop\EALauncher.exe

Once the EA launcher is up an running again:

EA Launcher -> Profile drop-down (top/right) -> Settings -> Application tab -> In-game overlay -> OFF

Tried this... did not help. Steam will open the EA launcher, and will try to load the game, but will instead "minimise" the launcher and "give up" on launching the game. So this does not work for me... :(

P.S. Had not played the game in at least 6 months, back then it worked just fine.
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AEon Oct 10, 2024 @ 7:02pm 
Originally posted by XvII:
You can allways run the game via EA app or from game folder with admin rights and it will start. :imSorry:

Launched directly from the EA launcher, clicked on the blue "play" icon and it failed to launch the game.

Then directly launched the game from the game folder:

Steam\steamapps\common\Excalibur\NeedForSpeedUnbound.exe

as admin under Windows 10 and that made not difference either. This opens the EA launcher but does not launch the game.

So... this does not work for me either.
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