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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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Windows root certificate store (trusted CA list) was outdated / corrupted.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.
