I think Easy Anti Cheat is making my M.2 NVME drive go away when I try to play games.
I think Easy Anti Cheat is making my M.2 NVME drive go away when I try to play games.
Hello everyone. It feels like hard work deciding where to put this post, but here we are. I'm really hoping someone else can help me too because the same thing is happening to my friend. What's going on? When I try to start a game that uses Easy Anti-Cheat like Apex or Hunt Showdown, it suddenly locks up right away. Usually, it happens when I load the screen or just after I touch something on the screen. To fix this, I have to close the game completely and then open Finder. Suddenly, my NVMe drive is gone from Windows, and all the files in that drive become inaccessible. I need to restart my computer for the drive to work again.
I've tried several things already to get this issue fixed:
- I updated my BIOS.
- I bought a new NVMe drive.
- I moved my games onto a Gen 4 drive (specifically a WD850) and put it in the Gen 3 slot.
- My old Gen 3 drive is still working perfectly as a boot drive, but now the Gen 4 one isn't.
- I tried other games that don't use EAC, and they work fine without any problems.
- I updated the firmware on my drives.
- I ran a test in the BIOS.
- The results were perfect: no errors appeared.
- The maximum temperature on the drive is normal, around 47 degrees Celsius.
If someone has run into this problem and found a fix, please let me know what you did or how it worked! I'm pretty sure now that it's EAC-related, not a hardware issue. This also happens to my friend who uses a different motherboard instead of the one with my WD drive, but has an Samsung drive in its place. Here is my user bench