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Anti-Tamper error FM 26

Started on 20 February 2026 by GabrielsCAP
Latest Reply on 24 February 2026 by Stam
 
Hi!

Since yesterday's Game Pass update, the game keeps freezing on the loading screen. I keep getting this message, and it seems to be related to Denuvo, since the link takes me to a support page asking me to send a message with the subject "Anti-Tamper: 88500000". I've tried everything to solve this, but the error persists. I saw some people saying that waiting 24 hours would solve the problem, but I waited longer than that and nothing changed. Honestly, I don't know what else to do.



i also have the same issue since yesterday, nothing i do seems to solve it
After contacting Denuvo support, I received a response that resolved the error. The problem is related to Microsoft Gaming Services, and to solve it, I simply uninstalled and reinstalled Gaming Services. After that, the game started working normally again. It seems that a bug is causing Gaming Services not to relay the information that the user actually owns the game.
To uninstall and reinstall Gaming Services I opened PowerShell as administrator and ran these commands:

uninstall - get-appxpackage Microsoft.GamingServices | remove-AppxPackage -allusers

reinstall - start ms-windows-store://pdp/?productid=9MWPM2CQNLHN

I can't believe something so simple solved this.
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@GabrielsCAP: Thanks for sharing the workaround you've come across. Hopefully that will help others facing the same issue.

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