Battleye: Update failed (1, 6). Please check your internet connection and/or firewall.

[Maverick]

I keep getting this error when I try opening the game:
"Update failed (1, 6). Please check your internet connection and/or firewall.
Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have appropriate permissions to access this item"

I've reinstalled the game.
Uninstalled and reinstalled battle eye.
Turned off fire wall.
Updated nvidia drivers.
Moved game back to my C: drive.

Anyone else getting this issue? I can't figure it out

[Maverick]

I fixed my own issue

I was using a custom DNS so I went back to 1.1.1.1 Cloudflare DNS

I couldn't even access battleye's website beforehand, so it was a DNS issue

[Murphy]

how did you fix then issue then?

[Maverick]

Originally posted by Murphy:

how did you fix then issue then?

Windows 11:

-Right click Start icon
-Go to Settings
-Select Network & internet
-Select Ethernet (or Wifi depending on your connection)
-Under DNS server assignment, select Edit
-From the drop-down menu, select Manual
-Turn on the IPv4 toggle switch
-Under Preferred DNS, enter 1.1.1.1
-Save

[Twitch | ItsSprix ♡]

Originally posted by Maverick:

Originally posted by Murphy:

how did you fix then issue then?

Windows 11:

-Right click Start icon
-Go to Settings
-Select Network & internet
-Select Ethernet (or Wifi depending on your connection)
-Under DNS server assignment, select Edit
-From the drop-down menu, select Manual
-Turn on the IPv4 toggle switch
-Under Preferred DNS, enter 1.1.1.1
-Save

didnt work for me :( had this issue for almost a month now, the support team keep saying random stuff like razer is affecting it, so i uninstalled it all and still bugged

[TrK.]

Originally posted by Maverick:

Originally posted by Murphy:

how did you fix then issue then?

Windows 11:

-Right click Start icon
-Go to Settings
-Select Network & internet
-Select Ethernet (or Wifi depending on your connection)
-Under DNS server assignment, select Edit
-From the drop-down menu, select Manual
-Turn on the IPv4 toggle switch
-Under Preferred DNS, enter 1.1.1.1
-Save

absolutely GOAT, worked for me

[StealtH]

Thanks, this helped solve my problem. My pi-hole setup was blocking the BattlEye update.

[SebastianH0310]

Originally posted by Maverick:

Originally posted by Murphy:

how did you fix then issue then?

Windows 11:

-Right click Start icon
-Go to Settings
-Select Network & internet
-Select Ethernet (or Wifi depending on your connection)
-Under DNS server assignment, select Edit
-From the drop-down menu, select Manual
-Turn on the IPv4 toggle switch
-Under Preferred DNS, enter 1.1.1.1
-Save

You are an absolute legend thank you!

[HautdogWater]

Originally posted by Maverick:

Originally posted by Murphy:

how did you fix then issue then?

Windows 11:

-Right click Start icon
-Go to Settings
-Select Network & internet
-Select Ethernet (or Wifi depending on your connection)
-Under DNS server assignment, select Edit
-From the drop-down menu, select Manual
-Turn on the IPv4 toggle switch
-Under Preferred DNS, enter 1.1.1.1
-Save

This worked for me, thanx

[DomFamilyToretto]

Originally posted by Maverick:

Originally posted by Murphy:

how did you fix then issue then?

Windows 11:

-Right click Start icon
-Go to Settings
-Select Network & internet
-Select Ethernet (or Wifi depending on your connection)
-Under DNS server assignment, select Edit
-From the drop-down menu, select Manual
-Turn on the IPv4 toggle switch
-Under Preferred DNS, enter 1.1.1.1
-Save

I've spent 2 days trying to sort this issue out, done everything from;

Verifying game files in Steam, uninstalling and reinstalling BattlEye, running as Administrator, turning off Windows Defender, allowing exceptions in the Firewall for all the BattlEye services / its applications, allowing 'full control' permissions for all the BattlEye applications, updating Windows (I'm not using Windows Insider build), updating GPU drivers, using CMD prompt to delete BattlEye and changing my group policies.

The BattlEye error codes I got while updating were:

(1,28) *original error code before I started troubleshooting*
(1, 6)
(5, 56)

I tried different DNS's, and the ones I tried, changed which error code I got, which made me think it could be a possible cause.

1.1.1.1, didn't work. Tried Google's 8.8.8.8, didn't work. But Google's 8.8.4.4 worked perfectly and I was able to update BattlEye and play Arma.

Many thanks for the tip! :)

[vanvan]

Originally posted by DomFamilyToretto:

Originally posted by Maverick:

Windows 11:

-Right click Start icon
-Go to Settings
-Select Network & internet
-Select Ethernet (or Wifi depending on your connection)
-Under DNS server assignment, select Edit
-From the drop-down menu, select Manual
-Turn on the IPv4 toggle switch
-Under Preferred DNS, enter 1.1.1.1
-Save

I've spent 2 days trying to sort this issue out, done everything from;

Verifying game files in Steam, uninstalling and reinstalling BattlEye, running as Administrator, turning off Windows Defender, allowing exceptions in the Firewall for all the BattlEye services / its applications, allowing 'full control' permissions for all the BattlEye applications, updating Windows (I'm not using Windows Insider build), updating GPU drivers, using CMD prompt to delete BattlEye and changing my group policies.

The BattlEye error codes I got while updating were:

(1,28) *original error code before I started troubleshooting*
(1, 6)
(5, 56)

I tried different DNS's, and the ones I tried, changed which error code I got, which made me think it could be a possible cause.

1.1.1.1, didn't work. Tried Google's 8.8.8.8, didn't work. But Google's 8.8.4.4 worked perfectly and I was able to update BattlEye and play Arma.

Many thanks for the tip! :)

Awwww why wouldn't Google's 8.8.8.8 work

[DomFamilyToretto]

Originally posted by vanvan:

Originally posted by DomFamilyToretto:

I've spent 2 days trying to sort this issue out, done everything from;

Verifying game files in Steam, uninstalling and reinstalling BattlEye, running as Administrator, turning off Windows Defender, allowing exceptions in the Firewall for all the BattlEye services / its applications, allowing 'full control' permissions for all the BattlEye applications, updating Windows (I'm not using Windows Insider build), updating GPU drivers, using CMD prompt to delete BattlEye and changing my group policies.

The BattlEye error codes I got while updating were:

(1,28) *original error code before I started troubleshooting*
(1, 6)
(5, 56)

I tried different DNS's, and the ones I tried, changed which error code I got, which made me think it could be a possible cause.

1.1.1.1, didn't work. Tried Google's 8.8.8.8, didn't work. But Google's 8.8.4.4 worked perfectly and I was able to update BattlEye and play Arma.

Many thanks for the tip! :)

Awwww why wouldn't Google's 8.8.8.8 work

I’m not too sure, maybe my internet service provider was giving me drama as well. I’m actually surprised it worked nonetheless