UPDATE: PROBLEM SOLVED. See Attempted SOLUTION #8.
I just had this problem occur today as well. It worked yesterday and on Monday. I don't know what changed. Same issues, tried everything thus far with no results.
@Shock2oo3if you find a solution please post it here. I've tried everything...
Error: Upon launching the game, after about 30 seconds of the small Splash Screen appearing, a red error bar appears on the top of the splash screen: "EA AntiCheat Service encountered an error. Please restart the game.: C\Program Files\EA\AC\EAAntiCheat.GameService.exe ( 7 ) ( 2 )" If you let this error sit there without doing anything, another pop up will appear "Security Violation: Game failed to launch. Please try launching the game again (130).
Theory: I installed BF2042 on Monday, it worked Monday and Wednesday when I played. Today (Thursday 12/6), I installed "Delta Force," and it installed a Kernel Level Anti-Cheat, I then tried to play BF2042, and I received the error I mentioned. My theory is that this is impacting Battlefield 2042's Anti-cheat. See solution #5 for my troubleshooting steps relating to this theory.
General Details:
- Game: Battlefield 2042
- Platform: Steam
- Operating System: Windows 11
- Hardware: RTX 4090, 5950X, 64GB Ram, 100GB+ of Storage
Attempted Solutions:
Attempted Solution One:
- Made sure Battlefield 2042 was not running via Steam
- Opened Task Manager to make sure “EA” Launcher was not running (Orange Icon).
- Launched the EA Launcher: "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EA Desktop\EA Desktop\EALauncher.exe" in Administrator Mode by right clicking on the shortcut, Opened Properties, Compatibility Tab > Checked “Run this program in administrator,” clicked OK to close the window. Right clicked the “EA” Launcher shortcut on the desktop, “Run as Administrator.”
- Attempted to launch from the EA Launcher (not steam).
- Accepted the message “This game requires permissions. This game requires administrative privileges. Do you want to grant access and launch the game.” Clicked “OK.”
- Splash screen appeared, same error.
Attempted Solution Two:
- Made sure Battlefield 2042 was not running via Steam.
- Opened Task Manager to make sure “EA” Launcher was not running (Orange Icon).
- Navigated to “C:\Program Files\EA\AC,” ran “EAAntiCheat.Installer.exe” as administrator, selected the drop down list, selected (Installed) Battlefield 2042,” selected “Uninstall All,”
- Uninstall success. Closed the window.
- Re-opened “EAAntiCheat.Installer.exe,” selected the drop down window, selected “Battlefield 2042,” selected “Install,” closed the window.
- Launched the game from the EA Launcher, same error.
Attempted Solution Three:
- In Steam, uninstalled Battlefield 2042.
- In Windows, Uninstalled “EA app”
- Restarted PC.
- In Steam, downloaded/installed Battlefield 2042
- Restarted PC
- Launched game, same error.
Attempted Solution Four:
- In Steam, right clicked the game > properties > Installed Files > Verify integrity of game files.
- Launched game. Same error.
Attempted Solution Five:
- Opened CMD in Administrator mode to delete the left over anti-cheat from Delta Force.
- CMD: sc delete ACE-GAME
- CMD: sc delete ACE-BASE
- CMD: sc delete "AntiCheatExpert Service"
- With that complete. Deleted AntiCheatExpert Directory in C:\Program Files\AntiCheatExpert.
- Checked if the anticheat is still running / installed:
- CMD (start): sc query ACE-GAME
- CMD (continued): sc query ACE-BASE
- CMD (continued): sc query "AntiCheatExpert Service"
- CMD (end): pause
Attempted Solution Six:
- I read that Uninstalling Delta Force does not default uninstall their anti-cheat.
- So I reinstalled Delta Force
- I went to Delta Forces root directory (did **not** run the game)
- I navigated to "D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Delta Force\Game\DeltaForce\Binaries\Win64\AntiCheatExpert" and ran "ACE-Setup64.exe" as an admin.
- It said "Successfully uninstalled." This was surprising, I thought for sure it was already uninstalled based on Solution Five.
- So I ran BF2042 through Steam. Same error.
- I launched Delta Force. Now Delta Force is giving me errors! The game ran literally two hours ago. "[Some irregular events are detected in your system. Please terminate related applications that may affect anti-cheat modules, or check system abnormal events with anti-virus softwares. Reboot system and try to start the game process in administrator](https://imgur.com/kVpwvqq)." The only cause for this was me messing with trying to remove the anti-cheat stuff. There is NOTHING on Google to solve this. Now I can't run Delta Force OR BF2042. FFS.
Attempted Solution Seven:
- Updated .NET Framework
- Updated DirectX
- Ran Anti-Virus Scan of C & D drives. No Threats.
- Clean booted my system (removed all non-essential startup services using Windows + R, msconfig.
- Searched for all installations of EasyAntiCheat in other games, uninstalled all of them (Enlisted, EldenRing, BattleBit)
- Searched for all installations of BattlEye in other games, uninstalled all of them (ARMA3, DayZ, ARMA: Reforger)
- Windows Integrity Check, CMD: sfc /scannow
- Windows Integrity Check, CMD: DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
- Updated Nvidia Drivers
- Restarted System. Same error.
Solution Eight:
- Revisited @OskooI_007's reply.
- Navigated to: C:\Program Files\EA\AC\EAAntiCheat.Installer.exe
- Right clicked, ran as administrator.
- Selected "Uninstall All"
- Closed the Program
- Restarted the PC
- The directory C:\Program Files\EA\AC automatically deleted itself after the restart.
- I downloaded EA AntiCheat https://cdn.eaanticheat.ac.ea.com/EAAntiCheat.Installer.exe
- I right clicked the .exe, ran as administrator. Installed the 2042 Files.
- I uninstalled the "EA App"
- I downloaded the EA App https://www.ea.com/ea-app
- Installed the EA app in administrator mode. Logged in. Double Clicked 2042, "This app needs permissions" popped up, clicked OK.
- The Splash Screen stayed up for a very long time. It prompted me to login a second time, but this was new!
- THE GAME LAUNCHED.
- I closed the game, made sure it launched with Steam, IT DID. Problem SOLVED. Other than the fact it takes like 5 minutes to load the main menu.
The lesson here: Listen very carefully to each step in Solution Eight. Skipping anything in there will result in a failure, restarting is essential, admin mode essential, etc.
