Dead by Daylight is a survival horror game. In this game, players have to make strategies to survive against a killer. Killer is one among the 5 players. 4 players try to fix some gates in the map to escape from the killer. This game includes using tactics and perks inside the map to get rid of the killer. Sometimes, game may face some errors in running. In this article we will be talking about Error Code 8012 and how to fix this error?
Error Code 8012: What is it and How to fix?
The root cause of Error Code 8012 is that your computer is not able to connect to the servers of Dead by Daylight. This can happen because of many reasons.
First of all, we have to check whether servers are online or they are experiencing a maintainence. If the servers are down on their side, then we cannot do anything about that rather than waiting for the servers to be back.There can be servers of you gaming platform (like Xbox live) or it can also be the servers of Dead by Daylight. To check whether the server of the game is down or not, you can simply visit Dead by Daylight page on DownDetector. You can also check out the current forums of Dead by Daylight to get updates about the current issues.
If there is not any server issue, then you might be having problem on your end. It means that your system is not able to connect to the active servers of the game.
This can happen for basically three reasons.
- Check your Internet Connectivity- Check whether you have an active internet connection by simply surfing the internet. You can also restart your Wifi Router, Gaming Consoles or Computer. Many times this problem gets fixed only after restarting your device.
- You can also Change your IP address as it can also create issues sometimes.
- If you are playing on your computers, EAC (Easy Anti Cheat) can also create a problem in this. For fixing this, you can re-install or repair EAC within the game folder. You can simply go to the setup of EAC and ‘run it as an administrator’