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Lords of the Fallen unplayable due to Easy Anti Cheat "Unexpected error"

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ValveSoftware/Proton#8652 · opened 2025-05-03 by FilthySchmitz · updated 2025-06-29 · 3 comments · github
FFilthySchmitz 2025-05-03 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Lords of the Fallen
  • Steam AppID of the game: 1501750

System Information

I confirm:

  • [x] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
  • [x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Symptoms

I launch the game and Easy Anti Cheat shows "Unexpected error" message (see screenshot)

Reproduction

Launch the game..

steam-1501750.log

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Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-05-03 github

Hello @FilthySchmitz, we're using one issue report per unofficially supported game title, so I've gone ahead and transferred this issue report to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/7175#issuecomment-2848749103.

Pplbpietrz 2025-06-29 github

@FilthySchmitz were you able to resolve this issue? I'm having the same problem.

FFilthySchmitz 2025-06-29 github

@FilthySchmitz were you able to resolve this issue? I'm having the same problem.

yes the fix was to switch to CachyOS 😁 since I switched to that distro the problem magically went away, I don't know what magic those devs at cachyos are doing but it's working. I'm just running the via steam with proton experimental just as before.

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