crashes saying fatal error

[RogueTrip]

Was gonna play this and just as it starts to load up it shows fatal error popup window. Tried deleting the two intro movie files an it did nothing.

Was looking in event view but nothing shows up in apps specific. Also Reliability monitor is not showing anything related.

Rig, Win 11 pro
Intel 12700k
32gb ram
4070 TI (546.33)

[RogueTrip]

Well, looks like telling MSI Afterburner to not start with windows, and rebooting has let the game start and play like 2 races so far.

I also upgraded Nvidia Drivers to 546.65. Doubt that did anything.

Has to be the anti-cheat software I bet.


Edit, yep, started MSI Afterburner and tried starting the game. Fatal Error again.

Is there any way to remove anti-cheat. I don't plan on gaming online.

[Thetagent]

Yeah, the game uses Easy Anti-Cheat. It gave me similar trouble when I tried renaming the single-player cutscenes to bypass the softlock bug on Linux/Steam Deck. Same "fatal error" popup and everything.
When Elden Ring came out, players found a few methods for disabling EAC, which might work here because the executable files are similarly named:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2763986548
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2776208774
I tried the one where you rename the executable, but had no luck. Of course, your mileage may vary.
If nothing else works, see if you can receive a refund. I think EAC started getting more picky in this game a few patches ago; I don't see it getting better sometime soon unfortunately.

[RogueTrip]

Thanks for the repsonse. In the installed apps I uninstalled "Epic Online Services" and now I can have MSI Afterburner run while the game starts. Have not tried it out very long though.

[Thetagent]

Good to hear you got it working man. I also remembered that there is a folder named "Installers" in the game's directory which contains the Epic Online Services executables. They might try to reinstall the anti-cheat when the game launches, so if you start having trouble again try deleting that folder.