EA anticheat is a PC anticheat solution designed to ensure fair play in our games and help prevent cheating, whilst also focusing on privacy and security.
It’s a kernel-mode anticheat and anti-tamper solution, which you can learn more about in this EA anticheat deep dive.
Every game that uses EA anticheat installs its own copy of the software. You can check whether your game uses EA anticheat in the EA app.
For Windows 10, EA anticheat requires the Windows 10 20H1 update (version number 10.0.19041) or newer. If you're already running the latest update, you don’t have to do anything else. To check for updates, follow the steps on the official Microsoft website.
If you need to troubleshoot an issue or you previously uninstalled EA anticheat, follow these steps.
Any game that uses EA anticheat will try to install the tool when you install the game, if EA anticheat isn’t already enabled.
We don’t recommend uninstalling EA anticheat unless you need to install from a clean state. To do that, follow these steps.
EA anticheat protection will also be uninstalled from your PC if you uninstall all EA games that use it.
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