Easy Anti Cheat Troubleshooting

What is Easy Anti Cheat?

Easy Anti-Cheat is the industry-leading anti–cheat service, countering hacking and cheating in multiplayer PC games through the use of hybrid anti–cheat mechanisms.

What is the Easy Anti Cheat Service?

The Easy Anti Cheat Service runs on Windows and helps protect Path of Titans from cheaters and ensures the protection of the game's process. Sometimes it needs to be updated or the game is ran without the service starting. The game will prompt you to restart and take you to this support page if you are having issues with it.

Easy Anti Cheat Not Installed / Not Working

Step 1: Check for incompatible software and your Anti Virus Program

• Sometimes there will be software that might break Easy Anti Cheat from working. Here is a list of known software that might cause issues that you might need to close or uninstall before playing:
• AVG
• Avast
• Asus Armory Crate
• ICue by Corsair (RGB software)

Step 2: Windows Update (Windows Only)

• Sometimes old versions will cause issues and cause Easy Anti Cheat to not work, please open Windows Update and press check for updates and make sure you are on the latest version of Windows 10 or Windows 11.

Step 3: Update Graphics Driver (Windows Only)

If you are using a Nvidia Graphics Driver you may have to update it to a newer version for the game to work. Make sure you’re using the latest driver by updating it through GeForce Experience or directly through the NVIDIA website.

Step 4: Verify Connectivity to Easy Anti Cheat CDN

Ensure you can access our Content Distribution Network by following these links.

https://download.eac-cdn.com https://download-alt.easyanticheat.net

You should see the message: '200 - HTTP OK'

If neither of the links display the expected message, make sure that nothing is blocking your Internet connection. If necessary, add Easy Anti-Cheat and the game folder to your firewall exception list or temporarily disable your firewall. Sometimes connection issues are caused by incorrect network router settings. For further assistance, contact your Internet Service Provider. You should see the message: '200 - HTTP OK'

If neither of the links display the expected message, make sure that nothing is blocking your Internet connection. If necessary, add Easy Anti-Cheat and the game folder to your firewall exception list or temporarily disable your firewall. Sometimes connection issues are caused by incorrect network router settings. For further assistance, contact your Internet Service Provider.

Step 5: Atempt to repair the Anti Cheat (Windows Only)

You can try repair the Anti Cheat installation by selecting the gear icon in the bottom right of the launcher and selecting Repair Anti Cheat.

Step 6: Run Scan & Repair (Windows, Mac, Linux)

Sometimes a file can get deleted via an Anti Virus or corrupted during download which will prevent Easy Anti Cheat from working, you can try run Scan & Repair to see if it will fix it.

Step 7: Full Computer Restart (Windows, Mac, Linux)

Sometimes EAC is unable to properly install because of a previous failed install or file being in use, doing a full computer restart and trying the steps above again might help fix it.

Step 8: Use EasyAntiCheat Install, Uninstall batch files in Game Install Directory (Windows Only)

You can manually Uninstall, Install Easy Anti Cheat directly by running the bat files in the game directory.

• First Locate where the game installation directory is you can do this by pressing the folder icon under Settings -> Game tab.

• Enter the WindowsNoEditor Folder:

• First run Uninstall_EasyAntiCheat then after the permission prompt wait a few seconds and run Install_EasyAntiCheat. You may need to restart your computer BEFORE running Uninstall, and again before running Install.

• If this still doesn't work you can try running Factory Reset, then Install. Keep in mind this will completely remove Easy Anti Cheat from your computer to cleanly reinstall it, This might effect other games that use Easy Anti Cheat.

Step 9: Repair Corrupt Windows files via System File Checker (Windows)

• First search the start menu for cmd and run Command Prompt as Administrator

• In the new window type /sfc scannow and press enter

• This will check over your system files, it may take some time and repair any invalid files.

Ask Alderon Games Team for help

You can ask us in #launcher-help on discord or via https://support.alderongames.com for help regarding EAC issues and we will do our best to help you! We don't know how to fix every single issue and sometimes you might need to ask the Easy Anti Cheat team for help.

Ask EasyAntiCheat Team for help

If you can't get Easy Anti Cheat working after these troubleshooting steps, you can try contact Easy Anti Cheat support here: https://www.easy.ac/en-us/support/game/contact/tech