Mind you im only addressing battleye not allowing ark to run, not the random closing of applications, as I believe these are two independent problems.Ĭonnection Timeout on EVERY Battleye Server with the firewall perhaps? being that people are saying this is only happening with clean setups, it makes me wonder if perhaps something is getting set by default to the windows firewall/defender that doesn't get changed in existing installs. On one, as stated before, I had to reinstall battleye, gave the instructions on a previous post.Īlso, on your clean install of windows, are you downloading the windows updates before attempting to install ark? I'm wondering if its something that's being updated on your windows install that may be causing the issue, i.e. Mine on both machines Is set to the following and still playing okay. Have you tried switching it back to the default after its let you launch ark to see if it reverts back to what it had been doing previously? SilentInstall was 0 and PrivacyBox was 2.Įdit: apparently PrivacyBox=0 will not work on official servers, did work on our unofficial cluster (BattlEye Enabled) tho.Įdit2: I can join, play and travel between officials after doing above steps ?♂️ I managed to get BattlEye to install after digging through the files a bit.įirst I uninstalled BattlEye again, then edit this file: steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\BattlEye\BELauncher.ini Changed my personal server to launch with -NoBattlEye option, and confirmed that Ark (without Battleye) runs just fine. No differences in Ark/Battleye launch behavior in any tries.įound this topic which convinced me that it wasn't something I had screwed up, refocused on getting this issue reported.īox2's 10/18 install is still working with Battleye.īox1 can only run without Battleye. I made zero changes to stock windows setup, allowed all updates to download, installed over the stock windows-downloaded Nvidia driver. Last try, I booted Ubuntu, wiped the install and ms reserved partitions with gparted and created a new install partition. Was convinced I was screwing something up or that some weirdness was carrying over via the UEFI, MS Reserved, or restore partitions, and wasn't convinced my diskpart efforts were properly wiping out all traces of the prior install. Wiped Box2 and installed Win10 fresh three more times. Battleye install shows on every launch attempt, ShooterGame_BE.exe becomes active (seen in task manager) while the install dialogs are up, terminates immediately. Wiped Box1 on 10/24 and installed Win10 fresh (from USB installer, not "Reset") Battleye setup showed once, Ark launched, everything was good. Wiped Box2 on 10/18 and installed Win10 fresh (from USB installer, not "Reset") Battleye setup showed once, and this install is still working. Installed Ark on Box1, stock Windows install. Little or no 3rd party software on them when I'm trying to install Ark. bought a few weeks ago and still in initial config teardown/rebuild cycles. I have two identical HP Omen Obelisks w/i7-8700 and RTX 2080. I think the "in common" may be that we are all either trying to install on a fresh PC or after having uninstalled Battleye. I'm guessing this isn't hardware or 3rd-party software linked. Random people have it.which makes me think what do we all have in common If you start ark without battleye there's no problem but you won't be able to join battleye'd servers
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