As someone that isnt too well knowledged about this, anyone here vouches that this is safe?
#[How to Fix Intel Lag + Sia Crashing]
earnest plover
Doubt less the results, doubt more NX on thinking this is unsafe because of something dumb and banning players for it 💀
eager turtle
Which section would that be?
Keep it here. Maybe Nexon will read it and put the vulkan files in their install folder for us, so we don't need to fear a ban for tampering with files in that folder.
merry crescent
A lot of games run fine on dx11, only nexon touched something in the Emergency Maintenance update that caused the problem.
About adding dll files in the folder, this is no different from dll-injection (except process injection). Simply the file with the same name and same folder will prioritize loading instead of the file in C:\Windows.... Anti-cheat can scan the loaded dll and one day we can be banned
tribal bolt
I just tried. It doesn't work, but in another way. Acturally good news is, it behaves the same as described here (after update but before emergency maint) https://discord.com/channels/309809230095843328/1382508121406050304
However, bad news is the fix in this thread doesn't work anymore.
the game just won't open. the nexon thing flash for like 1 second on the bottom right and gone, and after a few seconds the "play" button in steam/nexon launcher becomes green again.
merry crescent
So what will nexon think when it sees the d3d11.dll file has an unusual path? 
Honestly, this method is very risky because you can get banned permanently.
tribal bolt
it behaves exactly the same as how it was for me after update but before emergency maint.
merry crescent
I know about window dll loading priority. But the problem here is that it will violate nexon ToS
If offline game, i will try. But not for online game
marsh burrow
this is 100% against tos, nexon makes that fairly clear
tribal bolt
@weary stone please can you look into how to solve game won't launch with the added dlls?
but then the game freeze and is unplayable...
oh ok let me see
youre right it wasn't installed. how do I install vulkan?
I have no gpu lol
I have been running the game on a virtual machine which uses only system memory for graphics
ok. thanks...
topaz dagger
this is 100% against tos, nexon makes that fairly clear
where in the tos is it 100% clear?
show to us please
lusty ether
Is there an easy way to find out which of my cpu cores are p vs e so I know which ones to disable?
earnest plover
to be honest, playing a game shouldn't require it to be this weird to try to launch at a good performance rate, best case scenario for everyone is to just wait for devs to do their job and for us to just accept this is not a top tier company for this type of bugs, hope for a compensation to be "fair" and simply wait.
marsh burrow
it's literally in the first line of code of conduct
you are NOT allowed to modify files at all that changes the user experience of the game
brave thorn
As much as I appreciate how much effort you put into this, like seriously I’m think it’s great. But disabling hyper threading is probably how far I’d go… Everything else is just too unclear and risky at this point… They haven’t even officially acknowledged this issue.
Plus, it’s totally normal for a game to put out an announcement asking players to download/upgrade some third party contents, even CMS did it years ago. So I probably won’t do anything until Nexon tells us to.
marsh burrow
you are, you are literally adding a dll to the folder
topaz dagger
true that nexon inserts other dll files but i think they can scan the folder and see something not supposed to be there and then just ban you for it
spark kernel
knowing nexon you shouldn't do anything tbh they will fix it hopefully eventually
yeah appreciate the info i was only giving my 2 cents that its not intentional on nexons end because it got screwed up after emergency maint
torpid nebula
so I just went into the maplestory\appdata folder for the first time to place the dll files and why are there over 2000 screenshots in there? does maple have some automatic setting to take screenshots on like every level up and achievement? 😅
eager turtle
I have been running the game on a virtual machine which uses only system memory ...
Virtual Machines are against ToS, btw.
marsh burrow
yes, you can disable maple from taking automatic screen shots in in game settings, and you should definitely delete those screenshots cause it slows down your game
tribal bolt
Virtual Machines are against ToS, btw.
I can’t play without a virtual machine anyways. So I ban myself or they ban me, and I don’t see the difference
torpid nebula
yes, you can disable maple from taking automatic screen shots in in game setting...
I very much doubt it slows down the game because I've never had any performance problems before whatever they did with that emergency maintenance but I'll turn it off and delete them because it's just a pointless waste of space, don't need 1.3gb of screenshots 😂
pastel wind
what is E core it just shows as cpu 0~19
torpid nebula
"If it works, you’ll see maplestory_dxgi.log created in the folder." so it worked I see the log file but the performance is still the same and my intel processor doesn't even have P/E cores
what did you do nexon 🥲
yea, just thought it was worth a try as well
not via bios but I forced it with process lasso to only run on the physical cores and that also changed nothing
think I might as well just speed up my parts upgrade, was gonna go to AM5 at some point anyway 😂
no worries, it's nexons fault anyway for whatever happened with that emergency maintenance
I was on after the big update and it ran perfect then
it's also very inconsistent between different characters and maps
I made a new character on CW for fun and that all went fine but I noticed it slowing down the further I get into the 5th job maps
topaz dagger
i have a i5 13600k which is good and recent enough to not get a new cpu anytime soon
torpid nebula
under normal circumstances that's a fantastic cpu for gaming, just not nexon does an oopsie woopsie
pastel wind
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases in this link do i download all 4 things
torpid nebula
only the first dxvk-2.6.2.tar.gz
pastel wind
ok thanks
topaz dagger
ok thanks
you may need to use 7-zip or winrar to extract. i had to extract from .gz to .tar then extract again as folder. i decided not to place them in maple tho. it's up to you to make that choice.
pastel wind
can't i just use the windows extractor
pastel wind
you may need to use 7-zip or winrar to extract. i had to extract from .gz to .ta...
how would it fix the problem if i dont place it in the maple folder
topaz dagger
how would it fix the problem if i dont place it in the maple folder
im saying i downloaded it but decided not to use it. you have to place it in there to work. windows extractor didnt work for me. windows by itself doesnt recognize .gz files
topaz dagger
do these files have risk or something
nah just a different form of .zip files really. different compression method
says "access is denied"while maple is running.
ok got it
affinity resets to 0-5 on its own after a bit
umbral valve
I've tried what you suggested but only have been able to change priority, if I try changign affinity I still get the "access denied" error code
disabling e cores in bios then trying to set affinity?
topaz dagger
I've tried what you suggested but only have been able to change priority, if I t...
got it to work after making both steam and ms run as admin
umbral valve
oki thank you
torpid nebula
didn't think it would actually make a difference in comparison to forcing the same thing with process lasso but after disabling hyperthreading in the bios it's actually back to perfect performance
this is so dumb 😅
the weirdest part for me is that I have a cheap as cpu that doesn't have e/p cores so I assumed there would be no difference
yea, was just about to do that
welp seems for my hardware it runs slightly better not on vulkan 😅
but I think that might be the difference between having an nvidia and amd card, only remember it being better on amd
floral island
dont do this, cheats were use to be loaded in those libraries long time ago, can trigger delayed ban.
Blackcat.sys is scanning for modified files all the time
zenith spruce
anyone updated to v260 but haven't installed the emergency maint patch? it's fine at that stage
there may be the required dll, and that dll should be considered as 'official' partially
eager turtle
You can't "haven't installed the emergency maint patch". Both Nexon Launcher and Steam will force the client to update before it can launch.
zenith spruce
multi-device owners could, but we missed the prime time
eager musk
mods should prob delete this thread
earnest plover
remember that whoever decides what is against ToS or not is ultimately NX , so you may be right as much as you may be wrong.
eager musk
or using any application, software or technology that is not expressly authorized by us that enables cheating, power-leveling, or accomplishing game tasks that cannot be accomplished without the use of such an application, software or technology.
this seems pretty clear to me
and Vulkan can enable DLL hijacking
is Vulkan expressly authorized?
I think you are mistaken
how is a technology that can enable low level GPU manipulation and enable file replacements not considered a tool not expressly authorized
file replacements* DLL hijacking
no
programs made to run with Dx11 use explicit calls to Dx11
yeah this is a sham lol
thats not what I said, the program itself ENABLES it to happen
being an ENABLER is the defining trate here
when not explicitly authorized
keep coping bud
hope people here keep their account
is discord manipulating my maplestory files?
and intercepting calls from it
depends on how it got there
you dont see people going around replacing data files for custom sounds in their game
it has the ability to
is the problem
Its actually amazing anyone would just go grab a github repo and start letting it middle man their game its crazy
oblique tree
Discord is a third party application that is just as bannable as using Vulkan instead of DX11.
Discord interacts with your games via its overlays, you'd be more likely to get banned from a mistaken flag due to a Discord overlay than Vulkan.