Code-Anti cheat authentication timeout.
I was fine playing in the afternoon of 28th Oct. It happened to me on the 28th of October. I have found so many solutions in yt guide, such as running as Administrator, restarting the router, follow...
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Hello, did anyone manage to solve this issue?
I have been facing the exact same problem since October 28th, and after spending countless hours trying to fix it, I’m honestly desperate.
Here is everything I have already tried (based on ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and dozens of forum threads):
- Uninstalled and reinstalled Steam
- Installed the game directly via EA App
- Uninstalled antivirus, disabled all protection, checked firewall rights and exceptions
- Stopped all background apps and startup processes that might interfere
- Updated graphics drivers and installed all Windows updates
- Reinstalled Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables
- Deleted and repaired Easy Anti-Cheat multiple times
- Checked command line, services, and logs manually
Despite all this, the EA Anti-Cheat is completely dead. When I launch it manually, it just blinks once and closes. No logs, no errors, no reaction at all. Even in CMD, repair or reinstall commands produce no echo, like the service doesn’t exist.
I’ve spent hours and hours trying tricky fixes that most people wouldn’t even dare to attempt — and still, nothing helps. It really feels like something broke on EA’s side around October 28th.
Apex Legends is literally the only game I’ve played for years, and now I can’t even start it. I’ll probably just give it a few days and hope EA fixes whatever went wrong.
I found the solution. Open cmd as an administrator, and then run the following three codes one by one:
- certutil -generateSSTFromWU roots.sst
- certutil -addstore -f root roots.sst
- del roots.sst
Hello you,
Can you please explain what is it? And why this happenning now?
I have intalled this game since a long time! I was there the first year of Apex.
It fixes my pb but why?
It's a EAC problem, it can't recognize the root certs for some reason.
Root Cause
Windows root certificate store (trusted CA list) was outdated / corrupted.
Easy Anti-Cheat could not validate EA’s server certificate → handshake timed out.
Conclusion
This problem was not caused by the PC, antivirus or network.
The true cause was a broken Windows root certificate trust store.
Re-populating the trust root list fixed the Easy Anti-Cheat handshake instantly.
This fixed it for me, thanks!
In CMD, it said the system cant find the specific file --> command fail
No worries, it's fixed.
It's fixed? I still cant open it , the same problem here :(
It absolutely worked for me. Huge thank you!
