How to Fix “Failed to” Install, Start, or Initialize BattlEye Service Error

Various “Failed to” error usually occurs in games that have the BattlEye anti-cheat service, such as Planetside, DayZ, PUBG, Fortnite, ARMA 3, Arma 2 OA, The Crew 2, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, etc.

Problem Symptom: Game players encounter the “Failed to” install, start, initialize BattlEye Service error when trying to launch the game on Windows 10 or error prompted randomly while playing the game. Various “Failed to” error usually occurs in games that have the BattlEye anti-cheat service, such as Planetside, DayZ, PUBG, Fortnite, ARMA 3, Arma 2 OA, The Crew 2, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, etc.

The detailed error message as below:

Failed to start BattlEye Service.
BattlEye Service startup failed.

Failed to install BattlEye Service.
BattlEye Service installation failed.

Failed to initialize BattlEye Service: Driver Load Error (1450).

Failed to initialize BattlEye Service: Driver Load Error (193).

Failed to initialize BattlEye Service: Generic Error

Failed to initialize BattlEye Service: Windows…