I held my breath. Right-clicked. Properties. Compatibility: Windows 7. Reduced color mode: 16-bit. Disabled desktop composition.
So I dug deeper. I replaced with a no-CD from a Russian forum. I used Depends Walker to find missing API calls. I even hex-edited fifa14.exe to skip the launcher. fifa 14 3dm not launching windows 10
I never changed the date back.
Clicked.