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[clerian]

No matter what I try, this game won't load. The EasyAntiCheat software appears to load (the bars at the bottom of its splash screen load to completion), and after the splash screen closes a message box appears with the message in my thread's title. The application process terminates immediately afterward. The game itself never even has a visible screen.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled several times and verified the file integrity as well.

The only peculiarity about my system is that my Steam installation is not physically on my C: drive. It's on a separate RAID0 array that has a symbolic link back to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam. This has never caused issues with any of my other games.

The only other thing I can think of is that the May update for Windows 10 required that I remove all instances of BattlEye (another anti-cheat software) from my computer before I could install the update. I'm wondering if there's a conflict with the latest version of Windows 10 and this software.

[Suntorias]

Hard to say, win 10 is known to mess stuff up, sometimes it's unrelated though. Do the usual rounds of verify, reinstall, etc, and see if something works.

If all else fails, I remember there being some bug about a year ago where EAC didn't load, and starting up any other game that uses EAC and starting up DBFZ while the other game ran would be a temporary workaround, but that seems to be a different issue altogether.

For the sake of it, try and see what happens if the game is installed somewhere without a symlink. You never know.

[Spacejaws]

Did you work this out? I'm having the same issue.

Edit:
Figured it out for me. I use junction links to migrate game folders to external hard drives/second interior and have a junction link point to the new location.

This keeps my C drive space free and Steam from thinking the game is uninstalled causing the game to have to rediscover/verify files again when I move them back(or just play them off the external drive which works great). Latest update of EAC doesn't seem to work with junction links and wants me to have the games in my C drive. Same problem with Dead by Daylight and Dragon Ball but Vermintide 2 which is also an EAC game still works fine off my external drive.
For Honor as well but I didn't test that sheet just uninstalled it bye bitc.

The reason I do this is because some games these days are meaty and can take up lots of C drive real estate and I'm not in the mind to uninstall them then spend a few hours downloading 30gigs when the fancy strikes me to play a bit of Dead by Daylight. Shame this is affected not sure what having the game files on an external hard drive have to do with anti-cheat.

Luckily not many EAC games out there, and they generally aren't large titles and clearly not every title will be affected but Dead by Daylight and Dragon Ball did for me even after EAC reinstalls and verifying files.