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
 
Couple of people on the Bungie help forum got it launching again. One just did a hard restart of the PC. The other is on an Intel CPU and updating the Intel CPU driver cleared the block. Bungie Support only says they investigated the reports, no patch mentioned.