Please Help: EA AntiCheat error ( 7 ) ( 2 ) (2025)

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BLSmith2112

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a month ago - last edited a month ago

UPDATE: PROBLEM SOLVED. See Attempted SOLUTION #8.

I just had this problem occur today as well. It worked yesterday and on Monday. I don't know what changed. Same issues, tried everything thus far with no results.

@Shock2oo3if you find a solution please post it here. I've tried everything...

Error: Upon launching the game, after about 30 seconds of the small Splash Screen appearing, a red error bar appears on the top of the splash screen: "EA AntiCheat Service encountered an error. Please restart the game.: C\Program Files\EA\AC\EAAntiCheat.GameService.exe ( 7 ) ( 2 )" If you let this error sit there without doing anything, another pop up will appear "Security Violation: Game failed to launch. Please try launching the game again (130).

Theory: I installed BF2042 on Monday, it worked Monday and Wednesday when I played. Today (Thursday 12/6), I installed "Delta Force," and it installed a Kernel Level Anti-Cheat, I then tried to play BF2042, and I received the error I mentioned. My theory is that this is impacting Battlefield 2042's Anti-cheat. See solution #5 for my troubleshooting steps relating to this theory.

General Details:

  • Game: Battlefield 2042
  • Platform: Steam
  • Operating System: Windows 11
  • Hardware: RTX 4090, 5950X, 64GB Ram, 100GB+ of Storage

Attempted Solutions:

Attempted Solution One:

  • Made sure Battlefield 2042 was not running via Steam
  • Opened Task Manager to make sure “EA” Launcher was not running (Orange Icon).
  • Launched the EA Launcher: "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EA Desktop\EA Desktop\EALauncher.exe" in Administrator Mode by right clicking on the shortcut, Opened Properties, Compatibility Tab > Checked “Run this program in administrator,” clicked OK to close the window. Right clicked the “EA” Launcher shortcut on the desktop, “Run as Administrator.”
  • Attempted to launch from the EA Launcher (not steam).
  • Accepted the message “This game requires permissions. This game requires administrative privileges. Do you want to grant access and launch the game.” Clicked “OK.”
  • Splash screen appeared, same error.

Attempted Solution Two:

  • Made sure Battlefield 2042 was not running via Steam.
  • Opened Task Manager to make sure “EA” Launcher was not running (Orange Icon).
  • Navigated to “C:\Program Files\EA\AC,” ran “EAAntiCheat.Installer.exe” as administrator, selected the drop down list, selected (Installed) Battlefield 2042,” selected “Uninstall All,”
  • Uninstall success. Closed the window.
  • Re-opened “EAAntiCheat.Installer.exe,” selected the drop down window, selected “Battlefield 2042,” selected “Install,” closed the window.
  • Launched the game from the EA Launcher, same error.

Attempted Solution Three:

  • In Steam, uninstalled Battlefield 2042.
  • In Windows, Uninstalled “EA app”
  • Restarted PC.
  • In Steam, downloaded/installed Battlefield 2042
  • Restarted PC
  • Launched game, same error.

Attempted Solution Four:

  • In Steam, right clicked the game > properties > Installed Files > Verify integrity of game files.
  • Launched game. Same error.

Attempted Solution Five:

  • Opened CMD in Administrator mode to delete the left over anti-cheat from Delta Force.
  • CMD: sc delete ACE-GAME
  • CMD: sc delete ACE-BASE
  • CMD: sc delete "AntiCheatExpert Service"
  • With that complete. Deleted AntiCheatExpert Directory in C:\Program Files\AntiCheatExpert.
  • Checked if the anticheat is still running / installed:
  • CMD (start): sc query ACE-GAME
  • CMD (continued): sc query ACE-BASE
  • CMD (continued): sc query "AntiCheatExpert Service"
  • CMD (end): pause

Attempted Solution Six:

  • I read that Uninstalling Delta Force does not default uninstall their anti-cheat.
  • So I reinstalled Delta Force
  • I went to Delta Forces root directory (did **not** run the game)
  • I navigated to "D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Delta Force\Game\DeltaForce\Binaries\Win64\AntiCheatExpert" and ran "ACE-Setup64.exe" as an admin.
  • It said "Successfully uninstalled." This was surprising, I thought for sure it was already uninstalled based on Solution Five.
  • So I ran BF2042 through Steam. Same error.
  • I launched Delta Force. Now Delta Force is giving me errors! The game ran literally two hours ago. "[Some irregular events are detected in your system. Please terminate related applications that may affect anti-cheat modules, or check system abnormal events with anti-virus softwares. Reboot system and try to start the game process in administrator](https://imgur.com/kVpwvqq)." The only cause for this was me messing with trying to remove the anti-cheat stuff. There is NOTHING on Google to solve this. Now I can't run Delta Force OR BF2042. FFS.

Attempted Solution Seven:

  • Updated .NET Framework
  • Updated DirectX
  • Ran Anti-Virus Scan of C & D drives. No Threats.
  • Clean booted my system (removed all non-essential startup services using Windows + R, msconfig.
  • Searched for all installations of EasyAntiCheat in other games, uninstalled all of them (Enlisted, EldenRing, BattleBit)
  • Searched for all installations of BattlEye in other games, uninstalled all of them (ARMA3, DayZ, ARMA: Reforger)
  • Windows Integrity Check, CMD: sfc /scannow
  • Windows Integrity Check, CMD: DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
  • Updated Nvidia Drivers
  • Restarted System. Same error.

Solution Eight:

  • Revisited@OskooI_007's reply.
  • Navigated to: C:\Program Files\EA\AC\EAAntiCheat.Installer.exe
  • Right clicked, ran as administrator.
  • Selected "Uninstall All"
  • Closed the Program
  • Restarted the PC
  • The directoryC:\Program Files\EA\AC automatically deleted itself after the restart.
  • I downloaded EA AntiCheathttps://cdn.eaanticheat.ac.ea.com/EAAntiCheat.Installer.exe
  • I right clicked the .exe, ran as administrator. Installed the 2042 Files.
  • I uninstalled the "EA App"
  • I downloaded the EA Apphttps://www.ea.com/ea-app
  • Installed the EA app in administrator mode. Logged in. Double Clicked 2042, "This app needs permissions" popped up, clicked OK.
  • The Splash Screen stayed up for a very long time. It prompted me to login a second time, but this was new!
  • THE GAME LAUNCHED.
  • I closed the game, made sure it launched with Steam, IT DID. Problem SOLVED. Other than the fact it takes like 5 minutes to load the main menu.

The lesson here: Listen very carefully to each step in Solution Eight. Skipping anything in there will result in a failure, restarting is essential, admin mode essential, etc.

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