December 2020 - last edited December 2020
I have 26 hours into Star Wars Squadrons (largely including playtime from the alpha test). I played a few hours at launch and recently returned to the game to play the single player.
So on about Wednesday night this past week I played through about 10 missions of the single player story. I planned to finish the story the following night, but I ran into the Easy Anti Cheat launch error 10022 that Thursday night and was not able to launch it.
For further hardware context, I changed my motherboard and CPU between launch (Ryzen 2600, msi b450m gaming plus) to new ones this past week (Ryzen 5600x, msi b550m bazooka) and then got a new set of RAM today, going from 3200 mhz ram to 3600 mhz ram (because I thought I was having other hardware issues but apparently I just had to re-apply my thermal paste).
Today I have been trying my hardest to fix this EAC issue, and have tried practically every fix I can find:
- Repaired and reinstalled EAC from the EasyAntiCheat folder in Star Wars Squadrons and the EAC folder in Program Files x86
- Ensured Windows was updated to latest version
- Ensured Nvidia drivers are updated to latest version
- Clean installed Nvidia drivers using Display Driver Uninstaller
- Tried starting EasyAntiCheat through services.msc
- Repaired corrupted system files using sfc /scannow
- Added EasyAntiCheat and Star Wars Squadrons folders/exes to virus and firewall Windows Defender exclusions
- Scanned my computer using both Malwarebytes (free version, have it turned off when launching game) and Windows Defender
- Exited all obvious background programs
- No RGB software opened
- Rebooted a million times
- Repaired files in Origin multiple times
- Reinstalled Star Wars Squadrons
Hardware:
- MSI B550M Bazooka
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600x
- G. Skill CL16 3600Mz RAM
- EVGA RTX 2070 Super XC Ultra
- Sandisk 128 GB SATA SSD (Boot drive + Origin launcher installed)
- Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB + ADATA XPG 240 GB M.2 NVMe SSD tier drive connected via AMD StoreMI (Star Wars Squadrons installed here)
- Corsair Vengeance 750W PSU
- 2 Monitors (144 Hz + 60 Hz)
I've read up on the internet of supposedly other people having this error in other games and have not gotten a fix in months. I really would like to find a fix to at least finish the story. It is mind boggling that I can't play the single player portion because of multiplayer anti-cheat software issues.