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Warchild56
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12 days ago
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Games won't launch due to anti-cheat (Autohotkey)

I can't launch Battlefield 1 and Skate (2025) due to EA thinking I have Autohotkey installed, or software that also uses Autohotkey. I have never used anything to cheat in a video game, and I will never use one. I do have Daemon Tools for disc images, but I have disabled that, as well as my mouse software, Razer Synapse, as they are for some reason flagged as 'Autohotkey'. PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR OBVIOUSLY BROKEN ANTI-CHEAT SOFTWARE, AS I CANNOT PLAY TWO GAMES, AND BATTLEFIELD 1 I PAID MONEY FOR!! EA ARE TAKING THE P.I.S.S. WITH THIS!! So many PC players are going through the same thing, and it is making me not want to purchase an EA game ever again! Though for some reason NFS: Heat launches perfectly fine!??

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  • Warchild56's avatar
    Warchild56
    8 days ago

    EA online chat informed me to do a 'clean boot'. So doing a clean boot, by disabling all non-Microsoft services, and disabling start-up apps, fixes the issue. But the fact that I have had to do that, just for EA games to launch, is still ridiculous, all be cause the anti-cheat is way too sensitive! The Anti-cheat still needs sorting out, as I shouldn't be needing to do all of this just to play an EA game!!
    Edit: If like me, you have Daemon Tools installed, that will also have to be uninstalled as well.

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  • Warchild56's avatar
    Warchild56
    Rising Rookie
    8 days ago

    EA online chat informed me to do a 'clean boot'. So doing a clean boot, by disabling all non-Microsoft services, and disabling start-up apps, fixes the issue. But the fact that I have had to do that, just for EA games to launch, is still ridiculous, all be cause the anti-cheat is way too sensitive! The Anti-cheat still needs sorting out, as I shouldn't be needing to do all of this just to play an EA game!!
    Edit: If like me, you have Daemon Tools installed, that will also have to be uninstalled as well.

  • Warchild56's avatar
    Warchild56
    Rising Rookie
    9 days ago

    Uninstalling the software that I know of, like Daemon Tools and Razer Synapse didn't work. And I have no idea what else is flagged. 

  • danisoff's avatar
    danisoff
    Hero
    9 days ago

    It was marked solved by me because the answer is definitive. As long as you are being flagged it means that the program is interfering with your game files (removing the program/programs is the only way of solving the issue).

  • Warchild56's avatar
    Warchild56
    Rising Rookie
    9 days ago

    Still didn't work. And none of us should be having to jump through hoops like that, just to play EA games, especially ones that are paid for!! And the other fix I have seen, is to enable 'Secure Boot' just to potentially brick my system. Also, I have no idea what software is causing 'false positive' flags, just that Daemon Tools and Razer Synapse can be flagged, as I guess, a "cheat device"!? What's more ridiculous is that Battlefield 1 is almost 10 year old, and it still has this issue.

  • danisoff's avatar
    danisoff
    Hero
    11 days ago

    Hello Warchild56​,

    You will have to fully remove the program that is being flagged by the anti-cheat, there is no other way around it.

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