The game crashes a few minutes after launching it.

[Mushroom]

More specifically, it goes like this: the game launches, I proceed through the title screens, I am able to actually load the save and play for a minute, and then the game crashes to desktop.

Reinstalling the game and verifying files won't work. Trying to verify files after removing Easy Anticheat doesn't work, either. Trying to mess around with the graphics settings and updating drivers won't work, too.

What is going on? I was literally able to play it normally a few hours ago.

[dark-breed]

can have a lot of causes.

in this case i first would check if a windows event log about the crash exists, if yes i would like to see it, if no in most cases a other eac game screwed up the eac installation and a clean eac reinstall would be needed.

delete the 'EasyAntiCheat_EOS' folder in C:\Program Files (x86)

then Use Registry Editor to delete all keys and values that had 'EasyAntiCheat_EOS' to do this search up "REGEDIT" in search.
right-click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Find and look up the term EasyAntiCheat_EOS and delete any you can find by search again.

then go into elden ring's game files in the installation folder and navigate to easy anti cheat, and click on the install_easyanticheat_eos_setup

a prompt will pop up and hit enter

[River]

I had a bunch of issues with the game crashing. It stopped when I disabled all my overlays.

[Mushroom]

Originally posted by dark-breed:

can have a lot of causes.

in this case i first would check if a windows event log about the crash exists, if yes i would like to see it, if no in most cases a other eac game screwed up the eac installation and a clean eac reinstall would be needed.

delete the 'EasyAntiCheat_EOS' folder in C:\Program Files (x86)

then Use Registry Editor to delete all keys and values that had 'EasyAntiCheat_EOS' to do this search up "REGEDIT" in search.
right-click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Find and look up the term EasyAntiCheat_EOS and delete any you can find by search again.

then go into elden ring's game files in the installation folder and navigate to easy anti cheat, and click on the install_easyanticheat_eos_setup

a prompt will pop up and hit enter

Originally posted by River:

I had a bunch of issues with the game crashing. It stopped when I disabled all my overlays.

Unfortunately, these workarounds didn't help. The game still crashes shortly after launching - without any crash event logs, too.

On a tangent: I have other games like The Division 2 that occasionally crash to desktop or simply refuse to launch, and all of these games launch with Easy Anti-cheat. I can't blame that software entirely but the correlation is there.

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by Pyro:

Originally posted by dark-breed:

can have a lot of causes.

in this case i first would check if a windows event log about the crash exists, if yes i would like to see it, if no in most cases a other eac game screwed up the eac installation and a clean eac reinstall would be needed.

delete the 'EasyAntiCheat_EOS' folder in C:\Program Files (x86)

then Use Registry Editor to delete all keys and values that had 'EasyAntiCheat_EOS' to do this search up "REGEDIT" in search.
right-click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Find and look up the term EasyAntiCheat_EOS and delete any you can find by search again.

then go into elden ring's game files in the installation folder and navigate to easy anti cheat, and click on the install_easyanticheat_eos_setup

a prompt will pop up and hit enter

Originally posted by River:

I had a bunch of issues with the game crashing. It stopped when I disabled all my overlays.

Unfortunately, these workarounds didn't help. The game still crashes shortly after launching - without any crash event logs, too.

On a tangent: I have other games like The Division 2 that occasionally crash to desktop or simply refuse to launch, and all of these games launch with Easy Anti-cheat. I can't blame that software entirely but the correlation is there.

a few days ago was a other user with similar issues, his way was to deinstall any EAC game, removing any EAC registry entry (not only the ones related to elden ring like in the solution) and than he reinstalled the game again.

that the windows event viewer do not have a eventID 1000 log related to elden ring points to a windows internal problem or a EAC problem.

so in question is this strange relatively new EAC problem, a background app that cause the problem (RTSS, ICUE, third party antivirus software, malwarebytes running in background are the most known causes) or a faulty windows user profile.

i would start at this point with a new created windows administrator profile and test if the same problem appears there, than i would close any background app and also any third party services in windows, the last i would do is to deinstall all eac games and cleanup the registry.

[bradman1978]

This has happen a few times to me. If it's a memory problem, uninstalling and reinstalling worked for me.

If you are watching a video while playing, and you don't have the best graphic card that could be it.

Final problem for me was an old SSD, so I had to get it replace.

[Arrianna]

@Tomoko, did you resolve your issue? How? I am having the exact same problem. The funny thing is I have been playing for hours without problems for weeks and then suddenly today- this. I do not remember changing anything on my pc so IDK what's going on.

[ERamoneith]

Same, just started since yesterday. Any relation to the patches?

[Mushroom]

Originally posted by Arrianna:

@Tomoko, did you resolve your issue? How? I am having the exact same problem. The funny thing is I have been playing for hours without problems for weeks and then suddenly today- this. I do not remember changing anything on my pc so IDK what's going on.

Originally posted by ERamoneith:

Same, just started since yesterday. Any relation to the patches?

My issue isn't resolved but the game runs as normal now. I didn't do anything on my side, and EAC has been behaving as expected. I just think EAC just hates certain people every now and then.

There is one oddity in that sometimes it would take me several tries to actually get Elden Ring to launch. The EAC splash screen would pop up, load to full, display that it's "waiting for the game," and then... not launch anything. If I tried a few more times, then Elden Ring would properly launch past the splash screen, allowing me to play as normal.

[Arrianna]

Wow. This is super frustrating!

[ERamoneith]

I was able to get mine running by disabling EAC

[EldenFarx]

You should try disabling EAC, and if nothing else works reinstall windows and all your drivers,programs,etc (NOTE: before completely reinstalling Windows backup all your important files,documents,etc onto an external hdd so you can copy and paste them back over to your computer afterwards.)

There might be dodgy elden ring files hidden somewhere on your operating system that could be causing these issues, also try deleting the files in %temp% and running CCleaner or BleachBit,

also since elden ring is purely a singleplayer game and you can complete it 100% singleplayer, they should give you the option to boot the game without EAC by default and they should also give you the option to boot the game with EAC only if you want to play online

You can get a clean iso for Windows 11 directly from Microsoft which you can use Rufus to create the bootable USB to reinstall the operating system and also you can create an unattended iso by following this youtube guide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VapEEf4k7Eo


Also try running the following commands:
sfc /scannow (System file checker, basically scans and fixes any corrupt Windows files)
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth (Basically tries to fix the operating systems Health)

And try this guide as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32rjXnqy8wc