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VaIorie's avatar
VaIorie
Seasoned Newcomer
2 days ago
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EA AntiCheat has detected an incompatible driver.

I been trying to play 2042 for the past week almost but get hit with this. 


I tried uninstalling, reinstalling, repairing files, updating anti-cheat and nothing. I only realized after that if I rename this SPECIFIC file to, "msio64.sys.old" will it let me finally launch. I'm posting here and asking if doing this will somehow flag or put me at risk for a potential ban?

Apparently this file is SPECIFICALLY for RGB lighting software which is insane to think that they care about that, but anyways I'm just asking if this will result in me possibly being false banned by doing this rename work around? I'd really not risk red game ban text on my Steam account over RGB file... 

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  • Steeve_BF's avatar
    Steeve_BF
    18 hours ago

    Hi VaIorie​ 
    No, you won't get banned (steam account or EA) for renaming this driver.
    EA has implemented these errors precisely to avoid banning errors and compatibility issues.
    The only side effect is that you lose control of the RGB/MSI monitoring as long as the file is renamed.

    We'll have to wait for a patch.
    Have great day 😄

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  • Steeve_BF's avatar
    Steeve_BF
    New Veteran
    18 hours ago

    Hi VaIorie​ 
    No, you won't get banned (steam account or EA) for renaming this driver.
    EA has implemented these errors precisely to avoid banning errors and compatibility issues.
    The only side effect is that you lose control of the RGB/MSI monitoring as long as the file is renamed.

    We'll have to wait for a patch.
    Have great day 😄

  • Chris_Hawkner's avatar
    Chris_Hawkner
    Seasoned Veteran
    17 hours ago

    RGB lighting has been an age old conflict with numerous anticheats. I remember years ago I had issues with launching The Division with iirc my old asrock board. 

    Removing or renaming the file should work and you wont get banned or anything it's just an error message in this context. I'd also try checking up on updating any MSI stuff you have perhaps more up to date versions of the driver/file exist that are more compliant with Javelin. I've seen it before where controller software just needs to be updated. 

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