Windows 11 BattlEye Fix
for Insurgency: 2BattlEye Issue Explained
The Options
There is three options when it comes to playing Insurgency: 2 on Windows 11 (with 24H2 or more recent update applied). With the two first options being offered you will have to consider if you will be playing strictly COOP (PvE) or Player versus Player (PvP) also. The reason to take this into consideration is that most COOP servers have gone away from having BattlEye a requirement to play, therefore not making it necessary to install at all on initial, first time launch. The options listed here will cover all scenarios in terms of point of installation and/or when BattlEye exhibited issues on your system.
Initial (First) Launch of Insurgency OptionNo BattlEye Support (PvE Only)
If this is the first time you have ran Insurgency and DO NOT plan on playing on BattlEye enabled servers, you can simply choose not install BattlEye at all. If you were not aware of the Windows 11 BattlEye issue upon initial launch or updated Windows 11 to anything post-24H2 update while already having the game installed, continue to either options two or three.
Post-Initial Launch of Insurgency OptionNo BattlEye Support (PvE Only)
If you were either not aware of the BattlEye issue to start with or had Insurgency installed prior to updating Windows 11 to a breaking version, the other option is to directly launch Insurgency from the installation directory of the game on your SSD or HDD with the 64-bit executable, this bypasses the initialization of BattlEye. Once you have navigated to Insurgency's main installation directory, you are going to want to launch it by clicking on the insurgency_x64 executable/program.
Replacing BattlEye FilesBattlEye Support
If you plan on playing PvP servers or possibly COOP servers that still have BattlEye enabled you can download the provided updated BattlEye files provided below, they come from a the game Unturned and have only had the .ini file altered to work on Insurgency.
Once you have downloaded the file, open the .zip file to locate a folder within named BattlEye, copy (or drag) the BattlEye folder to your Insurgency game installation directory following the example below, replacing the same folder named BattlEye (when prompted, allow file replacement).
This should allow you to launch Insurgency now from Steam with BattlEye support enabled with no system lockup.