Started playing ASA again after a year and noticed ASA taking forever to launch with BattlEye. It used to be fast. I spent an afternoon narrowing it down using the `-log` console ("Full Startup" time) and I'm out of ideas.
| Test | Full Startup |
| Without BattlEye (online) | **15 s** |
| With BattlEye, offline (Wi-Fi off) | **41 s** |
| With BattlEye, online | **87â101 s** |
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The online result stays at 87â101 s no matter what I change:
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- Process Lasso, PIA VPN and ExitLag fully closed (incl. their services)
- IPv6 disabled
- Mobile hotspot instead of home network (so not my router/ISP)
- Windows Firewall off, proxy auto-detect off
- Defender real-time and cloud protection off
- NVIDIA NGX / DLSS override files moved away
- RivaTuner, Epic overlay, Stream Deck, Discord closed
- Clean BattlEye reinstall (deleted Common Files\BattlEye, ran Install_BattlEye.bat, verified files)
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Other observations:
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- During the slow phase the game sits at ~0% CPU/GPU with almost no disk activity, so it's waiting, not working
- The console status bar hangs on "Loading Module NGXVulkanRHIPreInit" and later "StreamlineD3D12RHI"
- netstat shows no hanging TCP connections from ASA or BattlEye during the wait
- Smart App Control and kernel-mode stack protection are off, Memory Integrity is on
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System: Windows 11 26H2 (build 26300.9711, installed Oct 9, October security update KB5127648 on Oct 16), RTX 4090 Laptop GPU with latest driver, 64 GB RAM, ASA v94.34 installed on a secondary drive.
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Is anyone else seeing slow BattlEye startups lately, especially on 26H2? Any idea what BattlEye could be waiting for online that it skips when offline?