Last night I decided that I would listen to other music while playing PSO2 for a change. Unfortunately, I was having a hard time hearing the game's sound effects over my music, even after cranking the sound effects up to 100% in-game. So I thought I'd go into the Windows Volume Mixer and turn up the game's master volume. Easy enough, right?
Nope. A recent GameGuard update now blocks access to the Volume Mixer while PSO2 is running. Attempting to open it generates the nifty window you see above instead.
It is still a mystery to me as to why online games continue to use the piece of shit that is nProtect GameGuard. It's well documented that GameGuard is useless, and the recent NPC incident is further evidence of that. In fact, GameGuard seems to do a better job of blocking innocuous programs (like Volume Mixer) than malicious ones.
Companies like Sega that produce multiplayer online games need to wake up and find a solution that is better than GameGuard. An in-house developed anti-cheat system that is integrated into the game software would probably do a much better job. In fact, anything would.
Alternatively, I implore developers of antivirus software to take notice of GameGuard and do something about it. It has all the characteristics of a common computer virus, so why not label it as such? Maybe then companies that use GameGuard will think twice about using it in their next game.
1 comment:
MY volume mixer opens fine... Different problems for different people it seems. I can't open FireFox during pso2 running (opening FF beforehand works fine though). Other than than no problems whatsoever, some people ha e it worse, with their pc bluescreening them
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