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Re: EA Anticheat service enountered a service error

I am unable to start the game as it keeps telling me that EA AntiCheat Service encountered a system error, after that I have attempted multiple times to reinstall the anticheat. I have gotten nowhere

I have also tried uninstalling the anticheat and reinstalling it, after attempting to reinstall I am getting an error-

Starting ResourceExtract...
ResourceExtract failed:1113
ResourceExtract failed error 32:1117
Install failed:701

I have attempted to repair it as well and I am receiving an error "Invalid game directory"

There is nothing online stating how to fix any of this

I have also attempted to run the game as "Administrator" and uninstalling/reinstalling the game, no luck either

Please if anyone knows how to fix this, I would greatly appreciate this as I have found nothing online

7 Replies

  • EA_Barry's avatar
    EA_Barry
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    10 months ago

    @ford6969 @AyeItsC40 

    It is possible your antivirus or other security software is interfering here. 

    For testing purposes, temporarily disable your antivirus or other security software and retry playing.

    Thanks.

  • QueDawgSpr08's avatar
    QueDawgSpr08
    New Rookie
    10 months ago
    @EA_Barry This is truly disappointing! Done with Madden after this. BTW! I have a top Tier PC! Alienware R15 - RTX 4090 32 gigs RAM i9 Processor WTH!? Come on!
  • That isn't the issue. This is frustrating because this also happened to me with FIFA 24. If there is no workaround, how can people get refunds?

  • vinylnes's avatar
    vinylnes
    10 months ago

    I did the same thing and it didn't work. This is frustrating. You can't even uninstall the anticheat stuff because it tells you that it needs it to run the game. 

  • I have disabled anti virus, and i have tried every fix I could find from previous EA games like fifa and madden 24 with the same error code.  My madden 25 is so broken at this point it doesnt show up when I search for the list of games in the EA Anticheat app.  Previously though. it was there I tried to use the repair tool and got the same error messages as OP.   This sucks, I preordered the game and took the day off to play this and I have spent 5 hours trying to fix it with no solutions working.  Getting to the point where Im just going to refund it

    Update 8/19 - refunded it, still completely unable to play the game :/

  • I am also having this issue. I don't have antivirus. I removed it after my license expired last week and I am shopping for a new one.

    Anti-cheat is silly to be developed if a user will not be playing online. Therefore, coders should only have this feature running when this part of the application is used. There are other factors this should be done as well. Primarily reasons involve memory management and memory forensics. This is a lazy way to code an anti-cheat.

    See attached .cef file

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