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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 912585" data-attributes="member: 78686">Sharing one Windows Defender related problem here that I had today.So today I enabled Controlled folder access on WD and few minutes later opened Epic Games Launcher to play Red Dead Redemption 2. Launcher.exe of Rockstar launcher was blocked by CFA so whitelisted that and restarted the launcher again. The game ran without anymore blocking from CFA but after opening I was getting an in game error, cannot connect to Rockstar, error 1014. Then restarted my system and ran the game again. Same error. Searched online and found many people facing similar issue on GTA V and Red Dead 2. One of the suggestion available on Reddit is to turn off real time protection of WD which seems to have worked for everyone on that thread. Next, I didn&#039;t turn off Real time protection but turned off CFA, ran the game and it ran fine without any problem. I don&#039;t know what CFA is doing to prevent the game from connecting to server. There was no blocking notification, no log in Configure Defender, Firewall hardening. Really weird. Whether it&#039;s an issue from Microsoft&#039;s side or Rockstar&#039;s, I got no clue. Sharing it here in case someone face this or other similar weird error with CFA turned on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 912585, member: 78686"] Sharing one Windows Defender related problem here that I had today. So today I enabled Controlled folder access on WD and few minutes later opened Epic Games Launcher to play Red Dead Redemption 2. Launcher.exe of Rockstar launcher was blocked by CFA so whitelisted that and restarted the launcher again. The game ran without anymore blocking from CFA but after opening I was getting an in game error, cannot connect to Rockstar, error 1014. Then restarted my system and ran the game again. Same error. Searched online and found many people facing similar issue on GTA V and Red Dead 2. One of the suggestion available on Reddit is to turn off real time protection of WD which seems to have worked for everyone on that thread. Next, I didn't turn off Real time protection but turned off CFA, ran the game and it ran fine without any problem. I don't know what CFA is doing to prevent the game from connecting to server. There was no blocking notification, no log in Configure Defender, Firewall hardening. Really weird. Whether it's an issue from Microsoft's side or Rockstar's, I got no clue. Sharing it here in case someone face this or other similar weird error with CFA turned on. [/QUOTE]

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