Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

All games with EAC enabled are unable to run

Open
#456 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
arch-linux, linux

Research direction

No repository file, test, or entry point is identified in the report. Start by reproducing the failure with the listed runners and reviewing the available startup output; done means an EAC-enabled game launches and connects to online services, or the remaining limitation is documented.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Describe the bug:
I'm having issues were every time I open a game with Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) the game just auto crashes, on startup. The only time a can get the game to run is to just turn EAC off if I have the option to. I'm not sure what exactly I'm doing wrong since most of the logs just seem to away with the terminal after the game crashes.

To Reproduce:
Install a fresh bottles install on arch linux
Use Soda,GE-proton, Proton-em, Sys-wine, or Wine GE(I've had the most troubles with this last runner)
Open any game with EAC, the game I wish to run is Arc Raiders.

Package:
Flatpak from Flathub

Distribution:
Arch

Debugging Information:

Official Package: true
Version: '62.0'
DE/WM: plasma
Display:
    X.org: true
    X.org (port): :1
    Wayland: true
Graphics:
    vendors:
        nvidia:
            vendor: nvidia
            envs:
                __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD: '1'
                __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME: nvidia
                __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus: NVIDIA_only
            icd: /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json
            nvngx_path: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/GL/nvidia-590-48-01/lib/nvidia/wine
    prime:
        integrated: null
        discrete: null
Kernel:
    Type: Linux
    Version: 6.18.9-arch1-2

Troubleshooting logs:
The only real error I'm able to get before is goes away super quick is
The connection to online services failed, please try again later.

SID: d6dnlkri6n90081rqiig

This happens when I install a game through steam on a bottle either running Soda or Sys-Wine (Seemingly the only two that steam will run with). Create a secondary bottle and use the runner ge-proton use the analyze function to add it to the list of programs for both Pioneer-Game and Protected-Game. Run protected game first then run Pioneer-Game you can get Arc-Raiders to launch but you can't connected to online services since EAC won't run.

Additional context:
I have tried all of the aforementioned runners to see if I get any different results, but they all seem to have to same issue that being EAC. I'm willing to make a bet that it is something simple that I'm overlooking. I can get CS2 to run perfectly with no lag, and I can get Broken Arrow to run good without EAC enabled which has been the main reason for my suspicion of EAC. Please don't blast me to hard since I suck at this.

Dominant language
No language data
Stars
111
Forks
93
Avg merge
1d 1h
Merged PRs (30d)
3

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from bottlesdevs/programs

All issues in bottlesdevs/programs

Similar issues

More Desktop Dev issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.