ANTICHEAT - CTD

Problem possibly fixed.

I realized that my AIO (waterpump corsair H150i elice LCD xt) was dying without telling me.  I had suspicion because during windows reinstall i had BSOD which didnt make sense to me. It was hard to spot as i initially suspected the usual suspct (failing cpu, motherboard, ram...). I was fortunate enough to have 2 exact same configs so i could swap harware at will. RAM was ok, cpu was ok, we had left Motherboard or watercooling. After watercooling, windows installed flawlessly. The nvidia driver that I recently had to get 7zip to unzip as self extracting gave me CR error (although downloaded file was correctly downloaded from other computer and working there) and those BSOD (I had like 2 in january and now during reinstall) along with the ANTICHEAT failing put me on the hunt for bad hardware. So couple days troubleshooting but it seems fixed.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR EVERYONE READING THIS  :

If you are using STEAM and have your library on a seperate hard drive like me, in my case, I couldnt point newly freshly installed steam on new windows to my steam libraries and 80GB or so of F1 2025+2026 season pack. It simply would not work, anti cheat error and so on. I see 2 possibilitiers 1. maybe the previous redownload of the game a few days ago when i started to encouter silent CTD was corrupted (giving watercooling issues) 2. EA GAME and there anti cheat, anti piracy software requires fresh install. 

If you swap CPUs -> make sure you are careful with motherboard socket -> remove paste and clean (using isopropyl) cpu and around before removing cpu. Do not, i repeat, do not bend pins of the CPU sockets or get thermal paste all over (3 motherboard came new from amazon.de and fr in 2023 with such defects).

I will report tomorrow morning, if the game still running, that means the overnight test is a success. 

EA_Barry​  thanks for trying to help