How do you completely remove battleye from your system?

[delobelmax]

I installled it but after seeing its basically a rootkit i want to completely uninstall it. However cant find any information about how to do it. I uninstalled GTA5 from steam but cant find anything on how to uninstall battleye? Can anyone help?

[Blunt Raps]

Reinstall the OS, the only way im aware of 😬

[psykoteky]

Pretty sure you just remove the service and nuke the battleye folder from the game folder. As for not being able to find information on how to do this... how hard did you look?

https://www.battleye.com/support/faq/

Open an admin command prompt and run "sc delete BEService"
Can open services.msc after and see if Battleye's service was removed.
Uninstalling the game should have removed the battleye folder.

*opening an admin command prompt, navigating to the gta5 folder, and running -
' gta5_be 4 ' also appears to pop a window asking about uninstalling. Haven't thoroughly looked into beyond that yet. Doesn't look to remove gtav / battleye

After that if you wanted to be completely thorough- you could search the pc/registry for battleye but I imagine most of that would be otherwise inert.


edit - have since used the sc delete service command above after setting r* launcher to not use battleye and it appears to not be reinstalling/loading it for storymode launch.

[delobelmax]

Originally posted by psykoteky:

Pretty sure you just remove the service and nuke the battleye folder from the game folder.
As for not being able to find information on how to do this... how hard did you look?

I looked on reddit but couldnt find anything. how would one do that?

[delobelmax]

Originally posted by Blunt Raps:

Reinstall the OS, the only way im aware of 😬

pff thats just annoying

[CrazyCSIW6]

kernel level ACs are not rootkits. this sounds like you're just coping hard

[Zero McDol]

It should be in the game folder. I think.

[SqueakyTweaky]

Originally posted by delobelmax:

Originally posted by Blunt Raps:

Reinstall the OS, the only way im aware of 😬

pff thats just annoying

System restore point ? Roll back system without reinstall.

[delobelmax]

Originally posted by SqueakyTweaky:

Originally posted by delobelmax:

pff thats just annoying

System restore point ? Roll back system without reinstall.

i didnt have one made

[delobelmax]

Originally posted by SqueakyTweaky:

Originally posted by delobelmax:

pff thats just annoying

System restore point ? Roll back system without reinstall.

Ooh it automatically made one 3 days ago! Thanks! So this should fully remove it even if my games folder is located on a seperate ssd ( not the ssd windows is installed on)?

[psykoteky]

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[Kain]

Originally posted by psykoteky:

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I think that dude just wants to complain and make it really hard for themselves.

[Louis_The_Tank]

Originally posted by CrazyCSIW6:

kernel level ACs are not rootkits. this sounds like you're just coping hard

Anything with a kernel-level access can be a rootkit

[Chris Tohsaka]

Originally posted by delobelmax:

Originally posted by Blunt Raps:

Reinstall the OS, the only way im aware of 😬

pff thats just annoying

It's not easy to get rid of spyware/virus either.

[Annihilator]

Only who have sometimes to hide not want rootkit. I use it from so many years and never happening nothing.

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by psykoteky:

Open an admin command prompt and run "sc delete BEService"
Can open services.msc after and see if Battleye's service was removed.
Uninstalling the game should have removed the battleye folder.

Came here to post this, this should do it