EAC detected to local file integrity violation

[SirCraiggary]

Just purchased the game on steam. I had been playing on the GamePass version for years. I can load into the game but after about 5min of being in a world, I get an error message about EAC File Integrity and my game shuts down. I looked online and could not seem to get a solution.

[Meats Fugly]

Tried for almost a week during most of my free time to get a fix for this. contacted support, got sent a FAQ with info i'd already tried and despite my mentioning it was a Steam copy, most of the fixes were directed at the microsoft store, leading me to believe no-one actually read my support request. Two things i haven't tried, copying the EAC folder from a different game into SoT and deleting the SoT copy (not a Rare suggestion), and installing on the same drive with my OS (can't do it no space, was a Rare suggestion) I've heard some have success with these fixes. As for me, I wanted to really grind the new season but the futile nature of trying to fix this has burnt me out on it already. This game ran fine two weeks ago on the exact same setup and hardware. Was keeping an eye on these threads to see if a new fix was suggested, but i'm moving on. cheers ya'll.

[Shindig]

I just reinstalled after not playing for a good while, and this is what greets you!

[TheToxicSnowFlake]

Diposting pertama kali oleh TheToxicSnowFlake:

I just reinstalled sea of thieves after years of not playing and i get this crash message after about 5 to 10 minutes in game.

" EAC detected local file integrity violation: Unknown file version (Athena\Content\\Paks\Core_3d8387d1-49d6-4a3a-845b-7666b81500b-WindowClient_P62.pak). Application shutting down. "

I've tried every suggested solution, some of them twice,
is this something we are all dealing with?

{SOLUTION!!}

The solution is to delete that one compromised file, and then running an integrity check so that the game will reinstall only that one file from new, instead of saving over the old file.

If you need help finding your file, there is a very helpful tool called "everything"
Everything is a search engine that will find every file in your computer easily just by you typing in a keyword or file name, the app has an orange magnifying glass for a logo.

After finding and deleting that one corrupted file, I then verified the games integrity, which then replaced the deleted file with a not corrupted one, Seas of thieves has never given me any issue since, hopefully this helps! :)

[Stry8993]

Diposting pertama kali oleh TheToxicSnowFlake:

Diposting pertama kali oleh TheToxicSnowFlake:

I just reinstalled sea of thieves after years of not playing and i get this crash message after about 5 to 10 minutes in game.

" EAC detected local file integrity violation: Unknown file version (Athena\Content\\Paks\Core_3d8387d1-49d6-4a3a-845b-7666b81500b-WindowClient_P62.pak). Application shutting down. "

I've tried every suggested solution, some of them twice,
is this something we are all dealing with?

{SOLUTION!!}

The solution is to delete that one compromised file, and then running an integrity check so that the game will reinstall only that one file from new, instead of saving over the old file.

If you need help finding your file, there is a very helpful tool called "everything"
Everything is a search engine that will find every file in your computer easily just by you typing in a keyword or file name, the app has an orange magnifying glass for a logo.

After finding and deleting that one corrupted file, I then verified the games integrity, which then replaced the deleted file with a not corrupted one, Seas of thieves has never given me any issue since, hopefully this helps! :)

Why does it keep downloading a corrupted file in the first place though, you know what I mean? And why only once we've deleted it, does it download a non-corrupted one? Why can't it do that in the first place? I know you don't know the answers to this, its meant rhetorically, but this is so messed up.

[TheToxicSnowFlake]

Diposting pertama kali oleh JuJu <+|Laughing.Coffin|+>:

Diposting pertama kali oleh TheToxicSnowFlake:

{SOLUTION!!}

The solution is to delete that one compromised file, and then running an integrity check so that the game will reinstall only that one file from new, instead of saving over the old file.

If you need help finding your file, there is a very helpful tool called "everything"
Everything is a search engine that will find every file in your computer easily just by you typing in a keyword or file name, the app has an orange magnifying glass for a logo.

After finding and deleting that one corrupted file, I then verified the games integrity, which then replaced the deleted file with a not corrupted one, Seas of thieves has never given me any issue since, hopefully this helps! :)

Why does it keep downloading a corrupted file in the first place though, you know what I mean? And why only once we've deleted it, does it download a non-corrupted one? Why can't it do that in the first place? I know you don't know the answers to this, its meant rhetorically, but this is so messed up.

Diposting pertama kali oleh JuJu <+|Laughing.Coffin|+>:

Diposting pertama kali oleh TheToxicSnowFlake:

{SOLUTION!!}

The solution is to delete that one compromised file, and then running an integrity check so that the game will reinstall only that one file from new, instead of saving over the old file.

If you need help finding your file, there is a very helpful tool called "everything"
Everything is a search engine that will find every file in your computer easily just by you typing in a keyword or file name, the app has an orange magnifying glass for a logo.

After finding and deleting that one corrupted file, I then verified the games integrity, which then replaced the deleted file with a not corrupted one, Seas of thieves has never given me any issue since, hopefully this helps! :)

Why does it keep downloading a corrupted file in the first place though, you know what I mean? And why only once we've deleted it, does it download a non-corrupted one? Why can't it do that in the first place? I know you don't know the answers to this, its meant rhetorically, but this is so messed up.

My theory is that Sea Of Thieves is one of those kinds of games with files that when downloaded, can become corrupt, this issue can be caused by the size of the requested game file being a kb too big or too small, or the game application file is having trouble reading/recognising/running this Pak file.

Ultimately this .pak file has something within it that commonly goes wrong during its installation, if you've ever worked with multiple files, especially large groups of files, you will have noticed this issue from time to time, it's a pretty inconvenient possibility, that's why developers try to keep their original files for reference along with what their working on, so deleting and replacing a that single file ensures that the whole new file is good, instead of try to save over a previously corrupt .pak file.

.pak files are little archives full of information, so any little imperfection can confuse the game into crashing and giving us a more simplified error message blaming the whole .pak file, which makes "manually" replacing that .pak file the only real option.

-- Also, to answer your question, corrupt files can be sneaky, they can act like there's nothing wrong with them until they crash you again, its best to remove the troubled file completely to prevent it from confusing its replacement file, if you overwrite the files instead of deleting and replacing it, the corruption could carry over still, kinda like the files don't know the difference between corrupt bad data, and good data with the same name and file size, so the corrupt file never changes if you try to save over it, and that is why we'd have to manually replace it. --

[Fenreki]

If it has to do with the SOT game files (.pak etc.) and mentions file integrity:

Right click SOT in the Steam library -> Properties -> Installed Files -> Verify integrity of game files

[Zathra]

is there really no direct fix to this issue? i just got gifted this on stem to play with a friend so its a legal copy and im getting booted for no reason after a clean install

[sosch13]

For me the fix was simply to verify the integrity of the game files

[TheToxicSnowFlake]

Diposting pertama kali oleh The Pied Piper:

is there really no direct fix to this issue? i just got gifted this on stem to play with a friend so its a legal copy and im getting booted for no reason after a clean install

The solution is to delete that one compromised file, and then running an integrity check so that the game will reinstall only that one file from new, instead of saving over the old file.

If you need help finding your file, there is a very helpful tool called "everything"
Everything is a search engine that will find every file in your computer easily just by you typing in a keyword or file name, the app has an orange magnifying glass for a logo.

After finding and deleting that one corrupted file, then verified the games integrity, which then replaced the one deleted file with a not corrupted one, Seas of thieves has never given me any issue since, hopefully this helps! :) [/quote]

[TheToxicSnowFlake]

For Example

(Athena\Content\\Paks\Core_3d8387d1-49d6-4a3a-845b-7666b81500b-WindowClient_P62.pak)

Was the file I had to remove.

Find your troubled file, delete it, the verify the game files, after that Sea of theives will work

[Hugospugo]

Diposting pertama kali oleh TheToxicSnowFlake:

Diposting pertama kali oleh The Pied Piper:

is there really no direct fix to this issue? i just got gifted this on stem to play with a friend so its a legal copy and im getting booted for no reason after a clean install

The solution is to delete that one compromised file, and then running an integrity check so that the game will reinstall only that one file from new, instead of saving over the old file.

If you need help finding your file, there is a very helpful tool called "everything"
Everything is a search engine that will find every file in your computer easily just by you typing in a keyword or file name, the app has an orange magnifying glass for a logo.

After finding and deleting that one corrupted file, then verified the games integrity, which then replaced the one deleted file with a not corrupted one, Seas of thieves has never given me any issue since, hopefully this helps! :)

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I’ve tried this and it still didn’t work. Anything else i could try doing?