[Solved] Failed to start process for For Honor : "Access is denied." (0x5)

[Guacamole]

So, I decided to come back for the new season to rekindle my interest in the game and after a few matches I closed the game (and had to close the game a few times via task manager because it remains open in the background after being closed). And then was hit with this error when trying to launch the game.

I've googled around a fair amount and so far I've tried to fix it via:

- Reseting computer

- Opening Steam and Uplay as administrator

- Accessing to the easyanticheat folder and repairing the installation

- Verifying files' integrity

- Deleting and reinstaling the entire game

From the looks of it, it seems like it's more like Steam can't access the game rather than the game not opening, but to be honest I am stumped at this point, so I'm finally posting here for help.

I originally tried to post this in the Ubisoft Forums (since I figured it's their game), but I cannot post there without a verified account, and the verification link they send just seems to be stuck in a permaloading screen, so here I am.

Thanks in advance

[Boink]

Is it a uplay or steam error

[Guacamole]

Originally posted by MagicSloth:

Is it a uplay or steam error

Steam. Even if I try to open the game via Uplay it opens up Steam and pops up the message (I assume because I bought it there

Screenshot of the error: http://prntscr.com/ihetr2

[Guacamole]

Bump because all the "this game is dead" threads are getting this buried.

[Tak]

Run the game as admin, turn off your firewall and antivirus, tried that?

[Guacamole]

Originally posted by Tak:

Run the game as admin, turn off your firewall and antivirus, tried that?

If by that you mean to run Steam and/or Uplay as administrator, I have, because I don't see how to run the game itself as administrator.

Upon trying opening the game folder and running the .exe itself as administrator it gave me the error.

"Windows can't access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropiate permissions to access the game"

Although I don't know if this is because Steam games don't like being launched without Steam itself, because as I mentioned before I played the game just fine before this and have had no issues, nor I have made any changes of that type.

I tried disabled Windows Defender's (eugh) live-security thing but still same issue, could always try to add an exception or something, I don't know.

[Tak]

Originally posted by Guacamole:

Originally posted by Tak:

Run the game as admin, turn off your firewall and antivirus, tried that?

If by that you mean to run Steam and/or Uplay as administrator, I have, because I don't see how to run the game itself as administrator.

Upon trying opening the game folder and running the .exe itself as administrator it gave me the error.

"Windows can't access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropiate permissions to access the game"

Although I don't know if this is because Steam games don't like being launched without Steam itself, because as I mentioned before I played the game just fine before this and have had no issues, nor I have made any changes of that type.

I tried disabled Windows Defender's (eugh) live-security thing but still same issue, could always try to add an exception or something, I don't know.

If you have you wouldnt get that message.

Go on where you install for Honor, right click forhonor, properties and tick run as admin
https://imgur.com/a/Y0L0d

[Guacamole]

Originally posted by Tak:

If you have you wouldnt get that message.

Go on where you install for Honor, right click forhonor, properties and tick run as admin
https://imgur.com/a/Y0L0d

I just ticked the checkbox on, still gives the same error message.

what I find odd about this is that there's no crash, no load time, no anything before Steam gives me that error message, so it's not a crash, and other games are booting up just fine.

[Guacamole]

Well now I feel so dumb. It seems that Windows Defender HAD gone haywire and had stopped access to the game. So just to see if that worked I decided to put For Honor's folder under exceptions and now it's running.

Thanks for the help!

[Tak]

Originally posted by Guacamole:

Well now I feel so dumb. It seems that Windows Defender HAD gone haywire and had stopped access to the game. So just to see if that worked I decided to put For Honor's folder under exceptions and now it's running.

Thanks for the help!

glad its working out for u

[Javiervs]

I tried marking the executable as execute as admin, and it looked like working the first time, but the next time I tried it showed the same error again. The only way I can run the game is verifying file integrity every time I want to play it.

[man ripped apart by dogs]

where did you give it access? i can only give single .exe programs access, not entire folders.

[Javiervs]

Originally posted by jeuses:

where did you give it access? i can only give single .exe programs access, not entire folders.

You modify only the executable file, not the entire folder. It's named forhonor.exe

[Cernícalo]

How did you create the exception? I have Windows 10 and I have the same problem :(

[andrewk2685]

Hello

Apart from defender (or any antivirus), such issue might be caused by Windows 10 if the games are installed in external hard drives. Some versions (i think windows 10 pro) have an add-in that if installed blocks programms to be executed from external hard drives, resulting in this error. If you have this issue check this page here:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/running-programs-from-external-hard-drive-with/964e0234-96d0-4b30-90a0-5c4e9077e149

Cheers

[hqdragontrainer]

I have the same problem with access being denied. Are you able to tell me how you moved the game folder to 'exceptions' in windows defender? I can't find it... thanks!