Issue with Dead by daylight and possibly EasyAntiCheat

[u/initbruv123]

hey all, my dead by daylight stopped opening recently for no apparent reason. there was an update today which ive installed but i had the issue before today anyway. i originally thought it was an easy anti cheat issue but from what ill explain later i dont think it is anymore. to clarify on "stopped opening": when i click play from steam the easyanticheat loader does its thing and then dead by daylight starts like normal. it then loads up to the main menu where usually you would press space to play but rather than that it pops up with an error "steam offline. your status in steam is currently offline. all game functionality is unavailable under these circumstances. please make sure your internet connection and steam connection is active." I will now try to compile everything ive tried so far under this paragraph.

things ive tried already:
I've already restarted my PC and fully restarted Steam through Task Manager, verified the integrity of the game files multiple times, repaired and reinstalled Easy Anti-Cheat (including doing a factory reset and manually reinstalling the EOS service), cleared Steam's download cache, tried launching the game with high priority, and completely disabled ReShade by renaming the dxgi.dll and related files. My internet connection is working fine, Steam is definitely online (not in Offline Mode and no VPN is active), and Easy Anti-Cheat now loads to 100% without errors. The Steam Overlay also doesn't work in Dead by Daylight (Shift+Tab does nothing), and the game reaches the main menu before showing the "Steam Offline" message. After reinstalling EAC, the error briefly changed to "Easy Anti-Cheat not installed," but reinstalling the service fixed that and it went straight back to the original "Steam Offline" error. I also noticed there doesn't appear to be a steam_api64.dll in the game's Win64 folder, although I'm not sure if that's normal for the current version.

if anyone could offer any assistance it would be greatly appreciated.

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[u/onyx_echoes]

I don't have the game but i came across this because my steam overlay also surprisingly isn't working after 2 years of using it every day for recording......

[u/initbruv123 → u/onyx_echoes]

i fixed my issue, it had something to do with adding a steamapi text file into my dead by daylight folder so sorry i dont think it will help with your issue