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Can't open the game - "Access Denied"
I can't open Dead By Daylight whatsoever. I play on Epic Games, got it for free a few years back. I have 700 hours and this is the first time I've encountered this and I played just yesterday for a long while. I haven't done anything unique to the game, my computer, or anything else in general. The easy anti-cheat fully processes, and eventually hits me with an "Access Denied" so I can not open the game.
Additionally, I was receiving antivirus updates on my computer that identified a trojan here. It was only related to this Dead By Daylight. I verified the game's files and reinstalled it and continued to have the same issue.
I looked up the issue and the general information I got about this was that the anticheat relies on similar conditions that the antivirus flags, but this is the first time these warnings have popped up. Because I haven't done anything that should have had any effect like this, it seems like it could only be happening as a result of a change to the anti-cheat, DBD, or Epic Games. I allowed the "Trojan" for the time being for this, and it still does not work. This is as far as I've gotten with the issue, so any help would be appreciated, and please let me know if you've experienced the same thing either today or recently.