r/EAC

In early May, Steam offered the new Easy Anti-Cheat for Rocket League. I played a few matches without issues.

Now I see an in-game message that says AUTHENTICATING 🛡️ and it takes a moment for my car to spawn. A bit annoying, but still playable...

However, since May 12-13 I can no longer play any online matches. I get a BSOD every single time right before hitting the ball on kickoff.

What happens everytime:

• Here’s exactly what happens:
• The arena loads normally
• Everyone is in position, 144 FPS, good audio, controller works perfectly
• “I got it. I got it. I got it.”
• 3… 2… 1…
• I press Boost + Jump
• 💥 BSOD → REFERENCE_BY_POINTER (0x00000018)

After reboot and login, after desktop icons loads Windows freezes (only mouse works) and I have to force power off.

Minidumps point to: ntoskrnl.exe + EasyAnti-Cheat_EOS.sys

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I’ve already tried:

• Verified game files on Steam
• Deleted all Easy Anti-Cheat folders and repaired via admin CMD
• Tried the Epic Games version of Rocket League
• Updated BIOS to latest version (v5044)
• Uninstalled ASUS Armoury Crate and AI Suite 3
• Disabled EVGA Precision X1
• Rolled back NVIDIA drivers to 596.36 ^((the last stable ones before the May 12 issue and nvidia last update same day))
• Cleaned up a lot of background services and programs
• Full virus scan
• sfc /scannow

Every other game works perfectly, CS2, POE2, GTAV you name it. Only Rocket League seems to be affected. But i didn't tried other EAC games.

PC Specs: ASUS Prime X570-P | Ryzen 5 5600X 4.2GHz | EVGA 3080 Ti | 32GB 3600MHz | Windows 11 Pro Insider Preview (Dev Channel) - Build 29591.1000

I’ve been playing Rocket League for almost 10 years and this is the first time I’ve run into such a serious issue that completely prevents me from playing online. I really miss being able to hit the ball again 😔

I’d really appreciate any help or suggestions from the community, this is really frustrating. Thank you so much in advance!

TL;DR:
Rocket League crashes with BSOD REFERENCE_BY_POINTER 0x00000018 (ntoskrnl.exe + EasyAnti-Cheat_EOS.sys) every online match since May 12 after the new EAC update. Happens right at kickoff. All other games work fine. Windows 11 Pro Insider + Ryzen 5 5600X + RTX 3080 Ti.

[supprimé]

Need some help diagnosing a really frustrating Apex/EAC crashing issue because I’m running out of ideas.

System:

- Ryzen CPU

- ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING WIFI II

- NVIDIA GPU (new)

- New PSU

- Windows 11

Main issue:

Apex Legends crashes are causing full system instability:

- black screen

- audio glitch/freeze

- instant restart or full hard freeze

- sometimes Windows boots into automatic repair afterward

- occasionally system gets stuck in boot loops/recovery

Important:

Other games seem mostly fine.

3DMark Time Spy completed successfully.

Temps are normal (GPU around 50C, CPU around 60C).

So this does NOT seem like obvious overheating.

Event Viewer findings:

- Repeated EAAntiCheatService errors:

- “The parameter is incorrect”

- “Invalid argument count”

- Earlier I had a WHEA Logger Event 18:

- Cache Hierarchy Error

- Apex itself crashed with:

- r5apex_dx12.exe

- exception code 0xc0000005

- HWiNFO also crashed once involving nvml.dll

Things I’ve already tried:

- Updated BIOS to latest version

- DDU + multiple NVIDIA drivers

- Disabled overlays/MSI Afterburner/RTSS

- Apex reinstall/verify

- Repaired EAC properly

- Stock RAM settings (disabled EXPO/XMP)

- OCCT stress tests

- Time Spy benchmark

- System restore attempts

- Startup cleanup

The weird part is:

- Apex/EAC seems heavily involved

- but the crashes are severe enough to destabilise Windows itself afterward

At this point I genuinely can’t tell if this is:

- Apex/EAC + DX12 + NVIDIA driver interaction

- motherboard/platform instability

- PSU/GPU issue

- or Windows corruption from repeated crashes

Has anyone had anything similar or found an actual fix?