Apex Legends Error Code 30005 (CreateFile failed with 32.)

Hey @UKFodder, 

Do you currently have Valorant installed on your PC? I've seen some reports of that game's anti-cheat, Vanguard, and Easy Anti-Cheat potentially conflicting with one another. If Vanguard is currently present on your PC could you try removing it to test and see if that helps at all? 

/Kent

At about the third launch of Apex Legends after reinstalling Windows, every time it returns the error 30005 createfile failed with 32. No advice from your support on Twitter helped, even a complete reinstall of Windows does not help. I will immediately say that I can't delete the .sys file because Windows says that this file is already open. I'm tired of trying to fix this game

No Valorant installed and no Vanguard anti cheat installed.

the only way to play...is to delete that easyanticheat.sys from C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyAntiCheat

not from game folder

and you have to do it very quickly after the reboot.

Maybe you can do an.BAT to delete that file and include in an schedule on every boot

i dont know how to get rid of this problem....anoying...

and after you do that...if you quit the game...you have to re doo the same thing over and over again....

greets 

Thanks for the updates everyone. 

It sounds like there could be something that's blocking some aspect of EAC. If you haven't already, can you try starting up your PC in a Clean Boot to test and see if that makes any difference for you? It may help to narrow down if anything else running on the PC is interfering with EAC. 

For more details on how to set up a Clean Boot check out the EA Help website. Let me know if you're still running into the same error message afterward. Thanks!

/Kent

I've got the same problem, and I'll run you through my process.

I have repaired the game files and EAC itself repeatedly.
I have uninstalled everything related to EAC, Origin, Apex, or EA in general, twice.
My two separate uninstalls were installing fresh to my external harddrive, which did not fix the problem, and then uninstall-reinstall again fresh to my main drive (where it is currently.)
I'm unable to delete the easyanticheat.sys file because it says "File is currently in use by another process". Origin does NOT launch automatically on startup.
I did formerly have Valorant and Vanguard, but uninstalled both because I was aware of the Vanguard-EAC conflict potential. Made no difference.
Uninstalled and reinstalled my GPU Drivers, made sure everything was up to date, did not improve.

Restarting my computer fresh allows me to launch the game 1 time. If I close it, it will give the 30005 CreateFile failed error 100% of the time until my next restart.

This problem was first observed immediately following the Chaos Theory update on March 9th, and has not been resolved since then.

I've tried everything at this point except installing it on steam and seeing if it's playable that way, but judging by other people's responses, I doubt it would make a difference. The game runs perfectly fine on the one launch I can get per restart, but this has very much put a damper on my desire to play, as I'm sure it has impacted others.

Win10 Home version 20H2

Clean boot instructions followed - fixed the issue I was having. 

I did follow all the other instructions prior to this. However this worked twice in a row - which would have triggered two messages!

However now I cant connect to the servers and the internet connection is down (which is not true as I opened this ticket)

Thanks for the support.

First issue fixed - will try a reboot to see if I can clear this second issue!

Something weird now going on - I cant log in first time - keeps telling me there's now issues with the connection. Only when I attempt an easycheat.sys delete does it allow me in (doesnt allow me to delete). Also the last time I rebooted I deleted the easycheat.sys file and it allowed me straight in.