[Gohan99]

Hey, to start, experimental/legacy both worked fine up until yesterday. I was doing some malware cleanup & freeing up some used space on my rig. I wasn't aware that EasyAntiCheat was associated with Rust, so of course when I saw it, I uninstalled the entry from appwiz. Good news is I freed up about 300 gigs and got rid of most of the malware. Bad news is I can no longer play on the experimental server. Legacy still works.

I've browsed the forums for fixes, and tried what I've found with no luck. So I'm posting my own thread.

I've tried GGG's registry fix.
I've tried this fix http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1434361 (changing the beta version to none and updating)
I've tried adding exclusions for EAC to Avast, as well as temporarily disabling it.
I've tried re-installing Rust.
I've tried re-installing EAC (in the Rust folder)
I've tried running Steam as an adminstrator


Every time I try to run Experimental through Steam, or if I try running Rust on the desktop, I get two pop ups, first one is a bug report for EAC, second one is "Rust Launcher Error: LoadingError - StartService failed (1058)".

Thanks in advance for any help!

[eac knubbe]

Hi,

The error code is:

ERROR_SERVICE_DISABLED
1058 (0x422)
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

Could you try running 'sc delete easyanticheat' from command line: http://puu.sh/cQ9h5/8a3269cc8e.png -> http://puu.sh/cQ9ga/5fe700c7bc.png

And then starting Rust from Steam again.

If the error still persists, try adding C:\Windows\System32\EasyAntiCheat.sys to its exclusion list.
Then

[Gohan99]

The command prompt fix did the trick!

Thanks a bunch Knubble!

[eac knubbe]

No problem. :)

Thanks for confirming that this worked for you, we will update the installer to detect and automatically fix this issue if it happens.