"Steam must be running to play this game" Start error

Also had the error, easiest fix, go to the game folder, go into easy anti cheat folder, run easy anti cheat executable, select uninstall, play the game; nothing more needs to be done, took me all of 2 minutes to fix this issue.

It’s a lot easier. You just have to go to your computer, go to your main hard drive, user, the folder with the PC name, app data, roaming, and delete the easy anit cheat folder. this will be recreated after restarting the game and the problem is resolved.

After verifying the game files, I clicked “Steam” and “Check for Steam Client Updates…”

It worked after I updated the client.

I can confirm, deleting the files inside the folder “AntiCheast” worked for me at first try. Thanks!

This is true! Two friends last night had this problem and did this to fix it. Remember to ALWAYS back up your folder before changing files to prevent corruption!

You are amazing for finding this fix!!

The following worked for me:

In Steam Library: New world > properties > Local Files > Verify integrity of game files.
Once it is finished, log out of your Steam account. Steam will shutdown.
Launch New World which will prompt for you log back into Steam.
Once you log into Steam New World works like normal.

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I’m having an issue, where I click the game, it loads but does not appear on screen, I have uninstalled anti cheat but it says its not installed when I try run game. so I’m stuck. it worked perfectly until I reset PC and now I cant access new world at all.

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