Game crashes and winhttpwebsocketreceive error message

Since the last update, that I received today, is impossible to start the game. It crashes and returns an error message that it can't find the winhttpwebsocketreceive procedure in the winhttp.dll. I've never had this issue before and I'm beginning to get really angry. Updating to improve the game, OK for me, even if it adds some small unstability. But render it unusable at all is unacceptable.

i have the same issue. Do you have windows 7?

Same here, i reinstall game and steam, check windows update, check system file, error on disk, used window repair, clean registry, try to re-register the dll. Can't get this stupid game to start. I played more than 2500 hours and now its a no go.
I am out of solution to fix that insugencyClient-win64-Shipping.exe "The procedure entry point WinHttpWebSocketReceive could not be located in the Dynamic Link Library WinHTTP.dll error".
Anyone?? help!!!

Affecting me too, did restarting your comp fix it? I'm trying to find a way to reinstall EAC in the hopes that it fixes it...at this point though, I'm just glad I'm not the only one with the problem.

Same here, just bought the game.
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Hello!
I've probably found the reason for this error.
The game stopped supporting Windows 7 after update because of absence of WinHttpWebSocketReceive in the WINHTTP.DLL

At the bottom of the page there is OS requirment of Windows 8 for this function.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winhttp/nf-winhttp-winhttpwebsocketreceive

@mailuho wow, that's pretty dodgy. Thanks for the info though, at least we now know what's going on. Wonder if it's possible to copy winhttp.dll from a newer OS to 7, highly unlikely but worth a shot. Yeah that went about as well as I expected lol. Copied winhttp from a Windows 10 comp and moved it to my win 7 comp but that didn't work.

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