Easy Anti-Cheat, developed by Kamu, is an anti-cheating tool designed to stop (and catch) cheaters in online multiplayer games. Think of it like a more modern replacement for PunkBuster, the anti-cheating application that debuted in 2001. Easy Anti-Cheat runs on both Windows and macOS, and various linux machines.
Kamu won’t explain exactly how EasyAntiCheat works—after all, it doesn’t want cheaters to know exactly what they’re up against. The marketing materials says it uses a “hybrid approach powered by driver code and machine learning.” A support document shows it looks for corrupted memory, unknown game files, untrusted system files, and debuggers, among other things. It also won’t run if operating system security features like driver signature verification and kernel patch protection are disabled, ex: If safe mode is enabled.
The EasyAntiCheat.exe process only runs alongside games that require it. if you’re not playing a game, EasyAntiCheat.exe isn’t running in the background.
When you launch a game that uses it— such as War Thunder, for example—EasyAntiCheat.exe starts up. It remains running while you’re playing the game, and shuts down when you close the game.
Easy Anti Cheat will have minimum performance impacts depending on your hardware and equipment. Nothing that will affect gameplay.
Although EAC will act as a live scanner, the program will scan the game files asynchronous to prevent bog downs. Depending on your thread count this can be instant to a fourth a second. Nothing noticeable.
EAC will install into by default C:\program files\EasyAntiCheat on a windows machine and inside the game’s directory for linux and MacOs (unless changed by the distributor content provider).
The file size will take up no more than 50MB at best.
Q. Can we change the install location of EAC?
A. No, by default it will be hard installed to that file location and implanted into the windows registry.
Q. Can we manually move the files to a New drive?
A. In theory yes, you may move the EAC files to a new drive, such as moving it from your HDD to SSD, but this will require a registry edit, symbolic linking. There’s plenty of online resources from hundreds of players around the world explaining this.
- Blue Screen
- The most uncommon issue with EAC is the super rare bluescreen.
- This blue screen will occur when your system is low on ram and you do not have paging file enabled on windows.
- The most uncommon issue with EAC is the super rare bluescreen.
- AMD Users
- Make sure to upgrade to latest firmware and drivers as some drivers that outdated have unsigned code, recent updates from AMD fixes that issue.
- Access violation 0x01
- This violations occurs if you forcibly close the game other than using the in game quitting method.
- Such as using Alt+F4 to quit
- This violations occurs if you forcibly close the game other than using the in game quitting method.
- Virus Scanner False Flags
- If you have a false flag occur here are simple steps from these major anti-v vendors
- Avast: How to exclude files or websites from scans in Avast Antivirus and Avast One | Avast
- AVG: How to exclude items from scanning in AVG AntiVirus | AVG
- BitDefender: http://www.bitdefender.com/support/how-to-add-exclusions-(exceptions)-in-bitdefender-2016-1467.html
- COMODO: Exclude Files / Applications to Scan, PC Antivirus | Internet Security v6.2
- DrWeb: http://download.geo.drweb.com/pub/drweb/esuite/10.00/documentation/html/en/agent/exclusions_files.htm
- Eset NOD32: End of Life | ESET Online Help
- GData: The G DATA Security Center :: Online Documentation
- Trend Micro: https://esupport.trendmicro.com/en-us/home/pages/technical-support/1059964.aspx#AddProgramsOrFolders
- If you have a false flag occur here are simple steps from these major anti-v vendors
- Hardware Verification Failed
- One cause of system or game file integrity errors can be system hardware instability. Your PC may seem to run completely normally but occasionally generate incorrect calculation results. Easy Anti-Cheat’s integrity checks are sensitive to hardware failures, especially when related to the hard disk or memory. Please make sure you have good hardware, if you have unstable hardware, it may be a sign to upgrade.
- Please note, Overclocking can cause damage, software, and hardware wise, and can throw errors.
- One cause of system or game file integrity errors can be system hardware instability. Your PC may seem to run completely normally but occasionally generate incorrect calculation results. Easy Anti-Cheat’s integrity checks are sensitive to hardware failures, especially when related to the hard disk or memory. Please make sure you have good hardware, if you have unstable hardware, it may be a sign to upgrade.
Easy Anti-Cheat supports all major PC operating systems, including Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck
Verify connectivity to Easy Anti-Cheat, make sure your internet access can access DHT p2p Services
- https://download.eac-cdn.com/
- https://download-alt.easyanticheat.net/
- You only need to have access to one of these services as eac will require that their installer is valid.
- Make sure your operation system is update to date with the latest software/firmware.
- If you run windows, install the latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables.
The game supports sound mods, and mods and skins, and other user created content that is inline with our rules and, terms, and Eula.
Installing additional software that will modify gameplay from not the intended purpose will ultimately will get your account in a bad state.
Visit this link for EAC Privacy Policy: https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/privacypolicy
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