EAC fails to launch on fresh restart after I verified files - NO MODS

warmer

Hunter
Version
2.6 stable
Platform
Windows
The title says it all. Not sure what the deal is. Last time this happened I had a dup process stuck in the background, but I just restarted my PC and there are no mods in my AppData\Roaming\7DaysToDie or the install SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\7 Days To Die locations.

Here is the launcher.log output. I works fine with a boat lod of mods with EAC off, but with no mods, it won't launch with EAC on.
2026-06-06 11:36:45

Orig CWD: E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\7 Days To Die
argv[0]: E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\7 Days To Die\7dLauncher.exe
App.ExeName: E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\7 Days To Die\7dLauncher.exe
GetModuleFileName: E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\7 Days To Die\7dLauncher.exe

AppData: C:\Users\Jesse\AppData\Roaming

Launcher invocation: E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\7 Days To Die\7dLauncher.exe
-from-steam

From Steam: TRUE
From BPM: FALSE
On SteamDeck: FALSE

Executing: E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\7 Days To Die\7DaysToDie_EAC.exe
-force-d3d11
-nogs
-logfile
C:\Users\Jesse\AppData\Roaming\7DaysToDie\logs\output_log_client__2026-06-06__11-36-45.txt

Error launching the game: EProcess: Failed to execute : 740
Post automatically merged:

Well I solved the problem - I have to force it to run as an Administrator in order to have it launch with EAC ON. This is very weird. First time in my 1300hrs this has ever happened.
 
Reproduction Steps
Trying to launch with EAC on crashes and I get the output log above.
Link to Logs
https://jpst.it/52iB-
Link to Screenshot/Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOTAPPLICABLE
Thanks for the post, and a way to fix the issue! I'll moved this to "Fixed" and if anyone else has this issue, now we know why!

Stay awesome
Phunky.
 
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