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Rising Newcomer

6 months ago

Battlefield 6 won’t launch — EA Anti-Cheat never initializes, repeated BSODs

Discussion: After playing without issue for the first few weeks, I’ve been unable to launch Battlefield 6 on PC via the EA App since late October. The EA Anti-Cheat (EAAC) service never starts when ...

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Rising Newcomer

1 day ago

I'm having the same issue. I was able to determine the exact offset where a bad read is causing the BSOD: 0x80BA2C.

A single instruction in EA's anti-cheat does a read through a pointer, and that pointer holds a different invalid value every crash. The code is constant; the data it loads is garbage. That is the classic signature of a software defect — an uninitialized, stale, or use-after-free pointer — not a hardware defect.