Unrecognized Game Client fix is here for you!

[AUTTENBURGH]

Hello!

I own the microsoft store version of sea of thieves, but i thought that maybe i could give some of you who are having this issue a permanent fix for any future reference.

Starting off the biggest problem, sea of thieves installation folder has been checked to be compressed, what you need to do is simply uncompress two game clients, nothing more than this at all, but for the sake of efficiency, the following will be how i did it the first time.

Go to (Sea of Thieves) folder and right click to properties and advanced, untick compress file, ignore on popup, you can cancel after a few minutes, it will slowly exit, delete the two game exes in the main & other in Athena\Binaries\WinGDK folder, verify files and you are done.

You might not have to do it this way.

Because i think the only thing you need to uncompress are the two exe clients, one in the main folder and other in Athena\Binaries\WinGDK folder.

But i did it this way the first time, experiment with yourself, honestly what needs to happen right now is for the developers to push out a small patch so that the game installation folder is not compressed, particularly the clients.

Hope this fixes this issue for you permanently.

Have a good time in the sea!

[Stop im baked]

so for anyone having this issue and decompressing the file doesnt work for you as stated above, I have found a stupid fix that worked for me.
I uninstalled sea of thieves, downloaded epic games, downloaded fortnite in order to get their copy of easy anticheat
then i redownloaded sea of thieves and it just uses epic games version of EAC. game loaded up and works fine like this. I conversed with Rare for hours trying to find a fix and they ended up closing my ticket with no fix. So i tried other games with EAC and fortnite worked. kinda sucks you have to have both games installed to play one game though