Hello everyone,
I’d really appreciate any help or advice from anyone who has faced this issue before — I’ve been trying to fix it for over a day and nothing seems to work.

So, I play GTA V RP through RageMP, and everything used to work perfectly fine before. Two days ago, I decided to factory reset my PC (Windows reset), and after reinstalling everything — GTA V, RageMP, etc. — I started getting a strange issue.

When I launch a server through RageMP, it starts loading, then the Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) window appears, but it freezes at that point.
In Task Manager, I can see EasyAntiCheat running, and after a few seconds Crash, it shows a message: “bootstrapped”, and nothing else happens.

Here’s what I’ve already tried:

Reinstalled GTA V (completely deleted and reinstalled)

Reinstalled RageMP

Deleted all EasyAntiCheat folders manually

Cleaned the registry entries for EAC

Reinstalled EAC again manually

But nothing works — the same issue persists.

Also, when I try to open the EasyAntiCheat.exe manually from the GTA5RP or RageMP folders, it doesn’t open at all, so I can’t even do a “repair” like most articles suggest.

If anyone knows what could cause this or how to fix it, please share what worked for you. I would be extremely grateful for any help or ideas because I honestly don’t know what else to try at this point.

Thank you in advance to anyone who takes the time to reply


UPDATE FIXED:

After trying everything I could find online and doing all possible fixes to regain access and get back into the game, nothing worked. So I decided to do something different — a full hard factory reset with a deep clean on all drives.

It turned out the problem was caused by an old EAC (Easy Anti-Cheat) folder somewhere deep in the system that kept interfering with the new installation. Even after doing a normal factory reset or reinstalling Windows, some leftover files or registry entries can remain and still cause trouble.

So, I went for a complete deep clean, wiping every drive and installing only Windows again — and everything now works perfectly fine. No more errors, no more bootstrap issues.

If anyone else is having the same problem, I highly recommend spending 20–40 minutes to perform a full deep clean factory reset.
That way, no old folders or hidden files can remain to cause issues — and your system will be fresh, clean, and fully functional again.