This guide will assist you in resolving one of the issues that plague games. This is the one that appears whenever you start the game. This requires EA Anti Cheat to be reinstalled each time, causing anti-cheat launch issues. If you think we missed something or should have included more information, please let us know in the comments section below!

Hello annoyed FIFA 23 players!

I was confused as to why Steam said “Performing first-time setup” every time I launched the game. I finally found the solution. Steam will launch the game usually and not detect it as the initial launch.

The Problem

Let me first tell you about the downside of this problem. Steam detects every game launch and causes the EA Anti Cheat to be reinstalled via Steam. (, and I mean reinstall the current version.) This seems like a good idea, right? WRONG! This means that the EA Anti-cheat must be re-downloaded (. It is necessary to update Steam since it installs the old version) each time you launch the games, taking up 100mb. It’s time-consuming and can cause problems with your internet, especially if you have a limited internet connection.

The Solution

1. Go to your FIFA 23 installation folder (by default, this is: C:\Program Files (x86 – \Steam\steamapps\common\FIFA 23 –
2. Find the file “installscript.vdf”
3. You can open it using Notepad or any other type of editor
4. Search for “EAAntiCheatInstaller”
5. After you have found the correct line, look at the 3 lines below. You can see the line HasRunKey…
6. This line should be below the third line (. The line you copied from here and pasted in your file should be the first line overall.): “RunType” “1” A (You can see the lower string of codes and how they were entered.)
7. Save the file, then exit.
8. Done! Now you can launch the game without needing to install EA Anti Cheat each time you found it.

Your file should look like this when you’re done editing.

 

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