Still can't play.

[Vanishing_Pointe]

So, after three hours of troubleshooting on Sunday, a pow-wow with my Monday night gaming crew (2 software engineers, a web dev, and 2 Network Admins) and still nothing. So far we had tried:
-updating graphics drivers
-updating direct X
-Updating steam cloud save status
-updating steam beta participation
-uninstalling/reinstalling
-verifying local files
-updating C++ distributables
-resetting system
-running as administrator
-allowing access through firewall
-updating anitvirus protocols
-updating BIOS
-two clean installs after running RevoUninstaller
-brute forcing every combination of overlay/steam cloud connectivity/secure start/run as admin/et. alt. elimination of variables possible.
-screaming, violently
I still can't play.

Hell, the game won't even run first time setup. Game will launch, and then the process closes immediately.

Error log reads:

Faulting application name: start_protected_game.exe, version: 1.3.3.0, time stamp: 0x620632ef
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.22000.527, time stamp: 0xc2abc35e
Exception code: 0xc00000fd
Fault offset: 0x0011f794
Faulting process id: 0x3b88
Faulting application start time: 0x01d8319608f87d8b
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ELDEN RING\Game\start_protected_game.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 7816a520-d27a-47c9-abbe-06986d9ff36a
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Anyone got any smart ideas?

[Coruja]

That's sad

[Vanishing_Pointe]

Originally posted by 🦉Coruja🦉:

That's sad

Yeah, they got my service ticket. I suspicion that Easy Anti-Cheat is at the root of my problem. Just putting it out there in case others were having a similar struggle.

[Drewculous]

try disabling EAC

[Vanishing_Pointe]

Originally posted by Drewculous:

try disabling EAC

Tried it from system configuration. No dice.

[Hakimoto]

What are your specs?

[-RAISTLIN-]

have you tried disabling EAC with either of the 2 methods described in the forums? 1 involves renaming the exe in the install folder, the other by adding a folder with a simple text file then using the exe rather than steam to launch.

[Dary]

I FOUND A WAY TO PLAY OFFLINE:
- Go to C:\Program Files(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Elden Ring\Game
- Copy elden ring.exe
-Paste in the same folder
-Rename stat_portected_game file into wathever you want
- Rename the copy of elden ring.exe into start_protected_game

[digsgravy]

Originally posted by Vanishing_Pointe:

So, after three hours of troubleshooting on Sunday, a pow-wow with my Monday night gaming crew (2 software engineers, a web dev, and 2 Network Admins) and still nothing. So far we had tried:
-updating graphics drivers
-updating direct X
-Updating steam cloud save status
-updating steam beta participation
-uninstalling/reinstalling
-verifying local files
-updating C++ distributables
-resetting system
-running as administrator
-allowing access through firewall
-updating anitvirus protocols
-updating BIOS
-two clean installs after running RevoUninstaller
-brute forcing every combination of overlay/steam cloud connectivity/secure start/run as admin/et. alt. elimination of variables possible.
-screaming, violently
I still can't play.

Hell, the game won't even run first time setup. Game will launch, and then the process closes immediately.

Error log reads:

Faulting application name: start_protected_game.exe, version: 1.3.3.0, time stamp: 0x620632ef
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.22000.527, time stamp: 0xc2abc35e
Exception code: 0xc00000fd
Fault offset: 0x0011f794
Faulting process id: 0x3b88
Faulting application start time: 0x01d8319608f87d8b
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ELDEN RING\Game\start_protected_game.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 7816a520-d27a-47c9-abbe-06986d9ff36a
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Anyone got any smart ideas?

In your case, this might actually be either.

Bad ram, Bad mem timings, or to much of an OC on memory.
Or vram config is not large enough.

Could be an issue somewhere else. It would help if you posted your system config with a thread like this. like OS version, CPU, MEM, GPU..

[Alexx]

tried everything too, and my stupid horse still dissapear anyway not even being able to play, thats underwhelming, 1 week without patch and we still waiting

[Vanishing_Pointe]

Originally posted by Dary:

I FOUND A WAY TO PLAY OFFLINE:
- Go to C:\Program Files(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Elden Ring\Game
- Copy elden ring.exe
-Paste in the same folder
-Rename stat_portected_game file into wathever you want
- Rename the copy of elden ring.exe into start_protected_game

I did attempt this solution. Same program termination upon execution.

[Vanishing_Pointe]

Originally posted by Hakimoto:

What are your specs?

Windows 11
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor 3.80 GHz
RAM: 16.0 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 2423, 8/25/2021
MoBo: BaseBoard Product PRIME B550-PLUS AC-HES
Directx 12

[Kiwi]

For reference, where are the error logs located/stored?

[Vanishing_Pointe]

Originally posted by Kiwi:

For reference, where are the error logs located/stored?

pulled them from the Windows event viewer.

[Vanishing_Pointe]

Originally posted by north:

sounds like a bad computer, consider an upgrade

This is a recently constructed computer. Stop trying to be a troll.

[klh]

Exception code: 0xc00000fd means a stack overflow, not much you can do. If you can, I'd install Windows 10 to see - I bet it's some kind of weird interaction on Win 11 they haven't hit in QA since it's not that popular yet.

Also, I would rather downgrade everything than upgrade.