Game wont start after anti cheat

[HansonO3O]

i tried everything the game wont launch

[Shadowskyt]

Are you looking for technical help?

I'm going to assume you pre-ordered the game and are eligible for playing a few days earlier.
If not, then this is discussion is going to end fairly quickly.

First off, the games uses EAC (Easy Anti-Cheat)

First off, try the repair function:

(Ripped of the official site)
Install, Uninstall, Or Repair Easy Anti-Cheat
The Easy Anti-Cheat service is typically installed automatically with each game, and uninstalled automatically when the last game using Easy Anti-Cheat is removed from your system.

You can also install the service manually. To do so navigate to the "EasyAntiCheat" folder inside of the game's installation folder and locate "EasyAntiCheat_Setup.exe". Launch it as administrator and choose 'Install'.

If your Easy Anti-Cheat installation becomes corrupted somehow, you can repair it by following the same steps and choosing 'Repair' at the end.

Easy Anti-Cheat service is uninstalled together with the game. You can also manually remove the service from the system by following the above steps and choosing 'Uninstall' at the end.

[HansonO3O]

the anti cheat is working fine. The game just wont launch after the anti cheat

[Shadowskyt]

Still not a lot of information to go on.
Without any error codes or notifications, you can't track down the cause of the problem.

Either the Anti Cheat is blocking you.
Or the game isn't installed properly. (Reinstall to make sure)
Or the game doesn't start because of something about your PC is preventing it to boot up further. Could be a permission thing, could be a blockade because of other software such as VPN or anti-virus.

Most of the time, it's the anti-virus installed on the computer itself that blocks the game from launching. Won't be the first, nor last, time it occurred.

You can also always check your Task Manager to see if, for some reason, B4B is running in the background.

All in all, I can only speculate without knowing how you're handling your PC.
All I can say, is that it runs fine on my own device. Well... ignoring the occasional bug ingame here and there.

[ShadowFury89]

im having the same issue. So what happens is, you click the game and it launches the Easy AntiCheat Splash screen and loading bar. it completes that then closes out the game and does not launch. i have uninstalled and reinstalled everything i can think of including the complete steam client. restarted and updated everything and cannot get thee game to play.

[lhockeytowngirl]

ya the update killed my game it wont start after the anticheat so idk

[Shadowskyt]

Looking through several forums:
I found some 'possible' solutions

1. TURN OFF YOUR ANTIVIRUS AND RUN THE GAME
Sorry for the caps, but this one is repeated over and over and over.

2. Turn off VPN blablabla

3. Turn of MSI Afterburner? Don't have it, maybe you guys do.

4. Open the game automatically in Full Screen? That's a new one, but apparently a thing that exists. You'll need to input a command in the .exe file, though. Dunno which ones you need. Google is your best friend, unless you desire privacy.

5. https://www.easy.ac/en-us/support/game/issues/guide/

Not sure how much more I can help.
I'm only an amateur after all.

[ShadowFury89]

i appreciate the help but i have tried all that and still nothing. Knowing that its not just me makes me feel somewhat better but still annoyed since i dont get to play much except today.... hopefully they will have it fixed later on today.

[The MidgetCrusader69]

no problems here runs fine def on your end

[Sinister]

same issue sigh...

[Davlos]

Faulting application name: start_protected_game.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x610e346c
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000
Faulting process id: 0x880
Faulting application start time: 0x01d7bf639374b03b
Faulting application path: F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Back 4 Blood\start_protected_game.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 85230af6-6e3b-44cc-a976-7c950a61bbc5
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

The above suggests this is a EAC issue. Attempting to use the setup.exe in the appropriate EAC folder resulted in nothing.

We'll just have to sit tight until TRS pulls their heads out of their asses and acknowledge this problem.

[civilian]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/924970/discussions/0/3088898048364408710/
op of this thread fixed the issue by completely uninstall the anti-virus.

[MrSmash 2.0]

Uninstallation of antivirus (AVG for me) did not help in combination with all other suggestions...

20.10.2021: Game is running, few more WIN updates automatically installed since launch. What SEEMS to do the trick - clean installation of GPU drivers, nvidia in my case. (followed tutorial on YT: "nvidia clean instal" by Chris). Antivirus and all possible apps are running...

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[I am goon]

Originally posted by Shadowskyt:

Still not a lot of information to go on.
Without any error codes or notifications, you can't track down the cause of the problem.

Either the Anti Cheat is blocking you.
Or the game isn't installed properly. (Reinstall to make sure)
Or the game doesn't start because of something about your PC is preventing it to boot up further. Could be a permission thing, could be a blockade because of other software such as VPN or anti-virus.

Most of the time, it's the anti-virus installed on the computer itself that blocks the game from launching. Won't be the first, nor last, time it occurred.

You can also always check your Task Manager to see if, for some reason, B4B is running in the background.

All in all, I can only speculate without knowing how you're handling your PC.
All I can say, is that it runs fine on my own device. Well... ignoring the occasional bug ingame here and there.

I tried to uninstall the EAC, but when ever I doing that, It won't show the repair window.