My Tussle with ‘System Integrity Violation’ in The Finals
Alright, let me tell you about this headache I had with The Finals recently. I was all set to jump into a match, you know, get some gaming in after a long day. Fired up the game, everything looked normal, and then boom – hit with a “system integrity violation” error right on the launch. Just stopped dead in its tracks. Super frustrating, right?
First thing I did, like most people probably, was just sigh and restart my computer. You know, the classic turn-it-off-and-on-again. Seemed like the easiest fix. Waited for everything to boot back up, clicked the icon for The Finals again… same darn error. Okay, so it wasn’t that simple.
Next up, I thought maybe the game files got messed up somehow. It happens. So, I went into Steam, found The Finals in my library, right-clicked, went to properties, and found that option to verify the integrity of game files. Let it run its course. It took a few minutes, scanned everything, and even downloaded a small file. “Ah ha!” I thought, “That must be it.” Launched the game again. Nope. Still blocked by that stupid integrity error.
This was starting to get properly annoying. I started thinking, what else could it be? Sometimes other programs running in the background mess with games, especially the anti-cheat stuff. So, I opened up my Task Manager. Looked through the list of processes. Closed anything that looked remotely suspicious or wasn’t absolutely necessary. Stuff like RGB lighting controllers, maybe some update checkers, overlays I wasn’t using. Tried launching The Finals again. Still no luck. Unbelievable.
At this point, I was considering just giving up for the night, but I’m stubborn. I started thinking about the anti-cheat itself, Easy Anti-Cheat, or whatever The Finals uses. Maybe that was the problem? I went digging into the game’s installation folder. Usually, there’s an Easy Anti-Cheat folder in there somewhere.
- Found the folder for The Finals.
- Looked inside, and yeah, there was an Easy Anti-Cheat setup program.
- Ran that little program.
- It gave me an option to repair the service for The Finals.
Clicked repair. Let it do its thing. It finished pretty quick. Took a deep breath, crossed my fingers, and launched The Finals one more time.
Success! It finally loaded past the splash screen and got me to the main menu. Man, what a relief. It seemed like the anti-cheat service itself had gotten corrupted or needed a refresh. Took way longer than it should have, just a simple repair process buried in the game files.
So yeah, that was my little adventure with the “system integrity violation” error. Started simple, got progressively more annoying, but eventually tracked down the fix by messing with the anti-cheat installation directly. Hope this helps someone else out if they run into the same wall.
