EasyAntiCheat (EAC) is preventing me from playing games using it.

[Proto]

I just got a new rig, Ryzen 9 7900X, Nvidia RTX 4070, Windows 10 22H2. It's nice. What isn't nice however, is any game using EAC or presumably even BattlEye won't let me play it. Just doesn't boot and gives me "EAC isn't installed, error code 30005". This is happening both with Rust and 7 Days To Die.

I don't have any antivirus enabled, Windows Defender is off. I have added EAC as a firewall exception. I've added my Steam folders as exceptions to Windows Defender. I have reinstalled both games at least twice now. I've verified game file integrity at least three times now.

I've gone into the game file directory and launched EasyAntiCheat_EOS_Setup.exe in the EasyAntiCheat folder multiple times, making sure to run it as Administrator. I've disabled Memory Integrity in the Core Isolation tab of Device Security in Windows Security.

I've wasted nearly four hours troubleshooting this Godforsaken anti-cheat. And no, obviously, I am not using cheats. I literally just got this computer, and no, reinstalling Windows is not something I am going to do.

I have a feeling it's "Kernel-Mode Hardware-Enforced Stack Protection" causing the issue, but it isn't showing up in Windows Defender. Also, isn't this supposed to be an important security feature? Why on God's green Earth is common advice to just disable it? Shouldn't the anti-cheat devs have fixed this by now? Christ almighty.

Anyway, anyone else gone through this gauntlet and have suggestions on how to fix it? I'd like to try out Rust, it looks fun.

[Proto]

İlk olarak абассал мяублейд tarafından gönderildi:

не играй в игры а займись само развитием

Я бы сделал это, если бы мой мозг работал таким образом, я не создан для того, чтобы быть разработчиком.
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[Proto]

UPDATE

RUST WORKED! RUST WORKED!!!!!

I don't know what the hell changed!? 7 Days To Die still doesn't work though.

[Proto]

7 Days To Die also worked just now by launching it via 7DaysToDie_EAC.exe from the game directory

I have three theories on what fixed this:
1. (Very unlikely as I did something similar before) Adding EasyAntiCheat's folders in Program Files (x86) as an exception
2. Playing Robocraft, which seems to have a fixed version of EasyAntiCheat
3. Deleting EasyAntiCheat.sys in the EasyAntiCheat folder in Program Files (x86), which was only possible thanks to Robocraft's version creating this folder

I don't know what fixed it, all I know is I can play these games now. Jesus Christ man, that took 11 hours' worth of troubleshooting. Asinine just for a stupid anti-cheat.

[Go hard like bananas]

So, could you turn memory integrity back on?

[Proto]

İlk olarak Go hard like bananas tarafından gönderildi:

So, could you turn memory integrity back on?

Mate you've necro'd a thread that's already solved, its been so long since I've had to deal with this that I don't remember / know what you're asking about.

[QSTHLWJ]

it is importent

[Mike]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.