error (7) (1) help me lol
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Hi everyone,
I'm hoping someone from EA or the Javelin AntiCheat team can look into this because I've exhausted all of the standard troubleshooting and the problem still isn't resolved.
The issue
Battlefield 6 will not launch and immediately fails with:
EA Javelin AntiCheat Error (7)(1)
My system
- Windows 11 Pro 25H2 (Build 26200.8894)
- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
- ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-F Gaming WiFi
- 32GB RAM
- NVIDIA RTX 4080
What I've already tried
- Fresh installation of Windows 11
- Reinstalled Battlefield 6
- Repaired and reinstalled EA Javelin AntiCheat multiple times
- Verified game files
- Updated Windows
- Updated NVIDIA drivers
- Updated AMD chipset drivers
- Confirmed Secure Boot is enabled
- Confirmed TPM 2.0 is enabled
- Confirmed UEFI boot mode
- Tested Memory Integrity both ON and OFF
- Tested Virtualisation-Based Security both enabled and disabled
- Repaired the Windows Time service
- Removed possible conflicting software and drivers
None of the above changed anything.
What I've found
The EA AntiCheat installer always reports:
- RegistryWrite success
- DirectoryCreate success
- FileCopy success
- ResourceExtract success
- ServiceInstall success
- CertificateInstall success
- Install success
Windows also reports:
Event ID 7045
which confirms the EAAntiCheatService installs successfully.
However, Battlefield still fails with EA Javelin AntiCheat (7)(1).
After attempting to launch the game, querying the service returns:
OpenService FAILED 1060 The specified service does not exist as an installed service.
There are no Application Error events, no Windows Error Reporting events, and no Service Control Manager errors explaining why this happens.
The EA AntiCheat executables are present in:
C:\Program Files\EA\AC\
and all have valid Electronic Arts digital signatures.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Has anyone else had EA Javelin AntiCheat Error (7)(1) with the service apparently installing successfully but then disappearing afterwards?
If anyone from EA is reading this, I'd really appreciate this being passed on to the Javelin AntiCheat engineering team, as I've completed all of the standard troubleshooting and the issue appears to be deeper than a normal installation problem.
Thanks.
