Workaround to make games with Gameguard work

[Citizen_K]

The tips M0ng0d is giving trying to make it work with Comodo have nothing to do with a possible cracked version he may be running. These are general tips that can be used with any application.

To make it clear to all. M0ng0d’s tips are in no way or form a ■■■■■.

[Katagiri]

But maybe a way to use the bypass.
Flyff has no issues here and doesn’t need any configurations, just leave the learning mode on or gamemode on and you’re set. Only Archlord and Luna needed to put as exceptions. Yes, I tried all configurations you can think of and just the exception tip worked. I’m fighting Gameguard since 2005 and Gameguard’s issues started since Comodo version 3.

[sumana]

@Munemasa Katagiri post:22

But maybe a way to use the bypass.
Flyff has no issues here and doesn’t need any configurations, just leave the learning mode on or gamemode on and you’re set. Only Archlord and Luna needed to put as exceptions. Yes, I tried all configurations you can think of and just the exception tip worked. I’m fighting Gameguard since 2005 and Gameguard’s issues started since Comodo version 3.

It crash my suddenattack and blackshot,i uninstall the RC2 and never think i wanna use comodo ever again,cause gameguard and comodo are never friends…

[Citizen_K]

@Munemasa Katagiri post:22

But maybe a way to use the bypass.

As stated in the above.

@EricJH post:21

These are general tips that can be used with any application.

To make it clear to all. M0ng0d’s tips are in no way or form a ■■■■■.

@sumana post:23

It crash my suddenattack and blackshot,i uninstall the RC2 and never think i wanna use comodo ever again,cause gameguard and comodo are never friends…

To but quote Panic and myself again

@EricJH post:12

Last thing I know about GameGuard, not a gamer here, is that is unhooks CIS’ kernel hooks. That is very aggressive and straight up malware like behaviour; it simply tries to kick CIS out of the kernel and therefor is trying to disable the protection by CIS.

@panic

No it’s not up to Comodo to fix GameGuard.

GameGuard are using non-standard methods of hooking. GameGuard can fix this, no-one else. All Comodo can do is try and develop a workaround. There has already been a workaround posted, but there is no guarantee that the workaround is valid for all versions of GameGuard.

Ewen

The ball is in GameGuard’s court.

[Katagiri]

@ sumana Try the shell code injection exception. I don’t have major crashes here since version 4.

@ Eric If the way to fix it is on Gameguard’s end we are doomed. INCA never gives a ■■■■ to consumers, when I sent an e-mail to them they just said to disable firewall and AV. Seriously, I don’t think it’s a way to solve any problem. Well, at least they answered me, in the past they just ignored all e-mails from gamers.
At least not all games with Gameguard are having issues, the funny thing, some of them use the same version, maybe there’s something about the way GG works with the clients, Flyff loads the client a few seconds before GG when Archlord and Luna load the client a few seconds after GG.

[Citizen_K]

There are of course multiple versions of GameGuard and for some of them there are apparent workarounds.

For part of the GameGuard versions that cannot be worked around the users are doomed as you put it. GameGuard used to tell users to disable their firewall in order to let them play games. Here is head developers comment on that:

@egemen post:29

Let me be clear about what it is: It is ENTIRELY DISABLING CFP and any other security software in an illegitimate way. Never mind entirely disabling them, by unhooking, it is also endangering the OS stability. The operations it attempts are not such simple things. It is trying to disable kernel hooks set by CFP.

Your only option is to disable D+ permanently. Because there is no way to run D+ and such a rootkit in the same computer.

We can reconsider restarting requirement for disabling D+ permanently. But this does not solve anything. Really D+ is only to protect against such things. You should simply disable it permanently if you are OK with this fact. No other security software will be operational in anyway with those game protection hacks.

Egemen

[Katagiri]

I really don’t know what game developers think. As I heard while playing games, cheating is a cultural Asian think and they do what they can to be the top… I think that’s why anti-hacks are that aggressive.

[Dch48]

As far as I’m concerned, If you want to be a gamer, you have to forget about using sandboxing or any form of HIPS on your computer. You can do that and still maintain a very good level of security while having no trouble playing any game you want.

[Katagiri]

I doesn’t have problems with Sandbox either with any HIPS feature. Well, at least with my games. I don’t really use sandbox all the time, just when I need.