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3 months ago

F1 24 - Launch game, and after 1min30s back to windows desktop !

Hello,

Trouble is recent, I played the game during many months without trouble.

Recently, I notice that I start the game then comes back on windows desktop at  step  "check privilege..."    just before "communication with online services" 

This trouble is random on my PC, sometimes I need just to relaunch and other times I need to test 3 or 4 times before success.

Here is the version used :  F1 24 version 1.19.1222678

Win 11 Pro 10.0.22631

nvidia 576.80

nvidia app 11.0.4.159

you can check the trouble here: private video on youtube

https://youtu.be/tHGWu5wT_So

Another remark is with a DLL : but game can start normally without this file.

I notice that an dll file is libxess.dll  in folder :  c:\Progam Files (x86)\steam\steamapps\downloading\2488620\  

This file is put in "quarantaine zone" by AVAST as threat suspected : Win64:Evo-gen [TrJ] 30Jan 25 19:26

best regards

biglooping

 

 

7 Replies

  • hello all,

    for the moment no feedback from anyone .  

    I provided a video showing exactly the moment when the trouble occurred.

    Can't we  have a patch to resolve this connexion trouble ?

    I still have this trouble sometimes when launching the game.

    best regards to all

    biglooping

     

     

     

     

     

  • hello, 

    I try to upload xml files but they are not accepted by server ?

    hardware_settings_config.txt

    hardware_settings_info.txt

    so please find bellow the content of theses files !

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        <skidmarks enabled="true" parallax="true" />
        <skidmarks_blending enabled="true" />
        <audio audioUpdateRate="2" audio_min_job_worker_threads="2" audio_max_job_worker_threads="8" />
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        <ca enabled="false" />
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  • The libxess file is related to frame generation on Intel cards. Although that file isn't needed as your using a Nvidia card, EA Anti-cheat is likely detecting the missing file, and force closing the game as it assumes you have tampered with the game files.

    I would try whitelisting the game in Avast so it stops putting the file in quarantine. 

  • Hello, 

    Trouble is not on Avast side, µI already put the game in white list.

    Trouble is not everytime, this means that there is no trouble with EA Anti-cheat.   If is not true then there is is a big trouble with "EA Anti-cheat" as I can overpast the security connection.   

    Trouble is somewhere else. I ask EA teams but they closed the ticket without any answer !  

    Actually, I can play with the game but sometimes I got the same trouble.

    So I still search for a support with EA teams dev.

    Best regards

    biglooping