Elden Ring has corrupted my windows twice now

[InQuisition]

A few months ago I was playing Elden Ring and I wasn't aware that my pc had a windows update. I died a few seconds before it hit 2:00am and as it was resetting me to my site of grace my computer was trying to restart for the update. I got a notification from Anti-Cheat that my System32 files were detected as a "cheat". When my computer tried to reboot I was greeted with a black screen and I had no idea why. I finally had to reformat my pc and reinstall everything and I assumed the problem was fixed.

The next couple months I was plagued with bluescreens and my gpu failing to the point I thought my GPU was broken until I finally had to take my pc in to get repaired. Everyone sounded confident my GPU bricked and I was mortified. Until they figured out my GPU was fine and it was a software issue. When I mentioned the issue with Elden Ring going after my System32 files they found out that all my System32 files were corrupted. They did a full wipe of my pc, did a clean reinstall of windows and my pc has been running like a dream since. They gave me some tips on how to repair my system and I paid the pricey bill.

A week ago I thought id boot up Elden Ring to mess around on and its been storming outside pretty bad. Middle of my session there was a power outage that shutdown my pc and as my lights started to flicker I saw the same anticheat popup on my pc going after my System32 files as my pc powered down. When the power came back on and I rebooted, my pc seemed fine, but I ran a check on my files to find out THAT I HAD CORRUPTED FILES AGAIN. I think I repaired them and everything should be ok, BUT now im worried my computer is going to die again.

Two questions:
1. How do I stop Anti-Cheat from screwing with my computer because I do like playing online

2. If I CANT stop anticheat then how do I play offline without it?

[TwinChops]

The Anti Cheat is not made by Fromsoft, its a very cheap (free) anti cheat tool that is also by far the easiest anti cheat to crack open and its made by our all beloved Epic Games (thats tthe reason why its ♥♥♥♥).

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by InQuisition:

A few months ago I was playing Elden Ring and I wasn't aware that my pc had a windows update. I died a few seconds before it hit 2:00am and as it was resetting me to my site of grace my computer was trying to restart for the update. I got a notification from Anti-Cheat that my System32 files were detected as a "cheat". When my computer tried to reboot I was greeted with a black screen and I had no idea why. I finally had to reformat my pc and reinstall everything and I assumed the problem was fixed.

The next couple months I was plagued with bluescreens and my gpu failing to the point I thought my GPU was broken until I finally had to take my pc in to get repaired. Everyone sounded confident my GPU bricked and I was mortified. Until they figured out my GPU was fine and it was a software issue. When I mentioned the issue with Elden Ring going after my System32 files they found out that all my System32 files were corrupted. They did a full wipe of my pc, did a clean reinstall of windows and my pc has been running like a dream since. They gave me some tips on how to repair my system and I paid the pricey bill.

A week ago I thought id boot up Elden Ring to mess around on and its been storming outside pretty bad. Middle of my session there was a power outage that shutdown my pc and as my lights started to flicker I saw the same anticheat popup on my pc going after my System32 files as my pc powered down. When the power came back on and I rebooted, my pc seemed fine, but I ran a check on my files to find out THAT I HAD CORRUPTED FILES AGAIN. I think I repaired them and everything should be ok, BUT now im worried my computer is going to die again.

Two questions:
1. How do I stop Anti-Cheat from screwing with my computer because I do like playing online

2. If I CANT stop anticheat then how do I play offline without it?

something with your PC is wrong any problem you describe has nothing to do with elden ring or EAC.

a power outage can damage files, repair them.

open command prompt as administrator and run these commands

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth
after this is finished
sfc /scannow

restart windows.

maybe additional subsystems like c++ redistributables are damaged
reinstall/repair them

https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe

problem should be solved this way.

[darksouls]

Originally posted by TwinChops:

its made by our all beloved Epic Games (thats tthe reason why its ♥♥♥♥).

Unholy hell.

[MonoPegasus22]

Originally posted by dark-breed:

Originally posted by InQuisition:

A few months ago I was playing Elden Ring and I wasn't aware that my pc had a windows update. I died a few seconds before it hit 2:00am and as it was resetting me to my site of grace my computer was trying to restart for the update. I got a notification from Anti-Cheat that my System32 files were detected as a "cheat". When my computer tried to reboot I was greeted with a black screen and I had no idea why. I finally had to reformat my pc and reinstall everything and I assumed the problem was fixed.

The next couple months I was plagued with bluescreens and my gpu failing to the point I thought my GPU was broken until I finally had to take my pc in to get repaired. Everyone sounded confident my GPU bricked and I was mortified. Until they figured out my GPU was fine and it was a software issue. When I mentioned the issue with Elden Ring going after my System32 files they found out that all my System32 files were corrupted. They did a full wipe of my pc, did a clean reinstall of windows and my pc has been running like a dream since. They gave me some tips on how to repair my system and I paid the pricey bill.

A week ago I thought id boot up Elden Ring to mess around on and its been storming outside pretty bad. Middle of my session there was a power outage that shutdown my pc and as my lights started to flicker I saw the same anticheat popup on my pc going after my System32 files as my pc powered down. When the power came back on and I rebooted, my pc seemed fine, but I ran a check on my files to find out THAT I HAD CORRUPTED FILES AGAIN. I think I repaired them and everything should be ok, BUT now im worried my computer is going to die again.

Two questions:
1. How do I stop Anti-Cheat from screwing with my computer because I do like playing online

2. If I CANT stop anticheat then how do I play offline without it?

something with your PC is wrong any problem you describe has nothing to do with elden ring or EAC.

a power outage can damage files, repair them.

open command prompt as administrator and run these commands

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth
after this is finished
sfc /scannow

restart windows.

maybe additional subsystems like c++ redistributables are damaged
reinstall/repair them

https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe

problem should be solved this way.

Also may I suggest for the future the OP purchase a decent alternate power supply for their PC.

[cridus]

Originally posted by TwinChops:

The Anti Cheat is not made by Fromsoft, its a very cheap (free) anti cheat tool that is also by far the easiest anti cheat to crack open and its made by our all beloved Epic Games (thats tthe reason why its ♥♥♥♥).

hey it got rid of the thousands of scriptkiddies that plagued DS3. good enough for me.
I've met 6 cheaters in total since release versus the literal dozens I would meet every week in DS3 (I played at meta, that's why they were so many).

[Legiondorf]

Man a game crashing your system... sounds kind of cheatery attempting to me.

[Beat]

Originally posted by LordFlamis:

Man a game crashing your system... sounds kind of cheatery attempting to me.

OP wrote aobut power outages. Yeah, no ♥♥♥♥, crap is gonna happens if files are in use and you kill it into nirvana. Never happened before.

OP also failed at a fresh install and had let ''the professionals' do it. smh

Probably even more pebcak going on.

[Sabaithal]

Can't say I've ever heard of EAC doing that before...but given the history of this absolute garbage of an anticheat I can believe it.

Honestly not sure what you should do. The obvious, and non-optimal solution would be to simply disable and delete EAC from the Elden Ring files and just play offline. Same with any game that uses EAC just to be safe.

[azumazku]

somewhat related to op's problem, so i guess i'll share it here.

elden ring was recently running unnaturally bad for me for no obvious reason, verifying the files found one thing that was fixed. tried opening the game and it just crashed on startup. multiple reinstalls and verifications later and it still couldn't get past the initial white screen at the start. this continued for around two days.
last night i found that eldenring.exe was still considered open and running somehow, even though it wasn't listed anywhere in task manager and was uninstalled at the time. restarted pc to force it to close, deleted all files, reinstalled and tried again.

this would have been the first time i've run the game with EAC on ( only mod installed was a ps4 ui button layout, which at the time was no longer installed ). got to the menu and started a new save, immediately crashes and freezes my pc. get a pop-up for only a few seconds mentioning a "fatal kernel error" that then hard crashed my computer.
open pc again to find that whatever it did, it had corrupted most of my drivers, pc was only barely functional enough for me to eventually fix the drivers a few hours later.

not sure if it's EAC related, but i need to blame something for why i can't touch elden ring anymore. considering the other problems i had with EAC games in the past, i'm pretty sure it's the man behind the slaughter.

[Sabaithal]

Originally posted by azzumazku:

somewhat related to op's problem, so i guess i'll share it here.

elden ring was recently running unnaturally bad for me for no obvious reason, verifying the files found one thing that was fixed. tried opening the game and it just crashed on startup. multiple reinstalls and verifications later and it still couldn't get past the initial white screen at the start. this continued for around two days.
last night i found that eldenring.exe was still considered open and running somehow, even though it wasn't listed anywhere in task manager and was uninstalled at the time. restarted pc to force it to close, deleted all files, reinstalled and tried again.

this would have been the first time i've run the game with EAC on ( only mod installed was a ps4 ui button layout, which at the time was no longer installed ). got to the menu and started a new save, immediately crashes and freezes my pc. get a pop-up for only a few seconds mentioning a "fatal kernel error" that then hard crashed my computer.
open pc again to find that whatever it did, it had corrupted most of my drivers, pc was only barely functional enough for me to eventually fix the drivers a few hours later.

not sure if it's EAC related, but i need to blame something for why i can't touch elden ring anymore. considering the other problems i had with EAC games in the past, i'm pretty sure it's the man behind the slaughter.

Were you using windows 11 or 10? Asking so I know whether or not to even start the game anymore.

[azumazku]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Were you using windows 11 or 10? Asking so I know whether or not to even start the game anymore.

windows 10, run while you can

[Sabaithal]

Originally posted by azzumazku:

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Were you using windows 11 or 10? Asking so I know whether or not to even start the game anymore.

windows 10, run while you can

♥♥♥♥. I liked playing online too...

I have to force the game to run offline without EAC or risk bricking my PC. Nice...

[cridus]

"my PC is faulty/windows installation is corrupted. what's that scapegoat everyone uses? ah yes EAC. I blame EAC"

[Za'Muro]

Originally posted by AAAAAAA!! AAAAAAAAAAA!!!!:

Originally posted by TwinChops:

its made by our all beloved Epic Games (thats tthe reason why its ♥♥♥♥).

Unholy hell.

unholy ♥♥♥♥... epic games?! now i understand

[Starts@0]

If your files keep corrupting, the fault may lie in your drive. I experienced a similar issue a few years ago. Took my computer to the shop to have it repaired and was told that it was a software issue, so consequentially, had a fresh copy of Windows installed. Not long after, my files began corrupting again. Had no idea what was wrong until my drive finally died that week. So, if I am in your shoes, I will backup my files now and replace the drive. Better be safe than sorry, frankly.