Yeah, I don’t know why it would be happening either. I’m just trying to help you diagnose what the problem might be. If it was my computer, the first two things I would do would be to: 1) check the permissions, and 2) use a tool to see if some process is holding an exclusive lock on the file.

For checking permissions, what you need to do is open the directory with the .exe file in File Explorer, right-click on the .exe file, select “Properties”, go to “Security” tab, inspect the permissions for each user, and see if anything looks weird. To be extra thorough, you can click on the “Advanced” button and check advanced permissions, if you know how to navigate there.

For checking if there’s another process locking the file, I would recommend downloading Process Explorer. Once you run it, make sure to select “Show Details for All Processes” in the “File” menu. Then try running Conan Exiles with BattlEye support, and when the “cannot access” error message pops up, go to process explorer, open “Find” menu, select “Find Handle or DLL”, write ConanSandbox.exe in the “Handle or DLL substring” text box and click “Search”. This should, hopefully, list any processes that have a handle open for the .exe file.