marathon BE log says Blocked loading of file libxess.dll and the game just closes

Feb 12, 2025
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marathon on steam is black screening before the bungie logo for a bunch of players, and the battleye launcher window just shows this

[INFO] Blocked loading of file: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Marathon\bin\x64\libxess.dll"

libxess.dll is the intel XeSS upscaler dll that ships with the game itself, so BE is blocking marathons own file. verify files, reinstalling battleye and a clean redownload all apparently do nothing

funny part is the line right above it in the log literally says file blocks can be ignored