[Kargor]

GameGuard/Flyff are severly bugged; GameGuard in particular causes massive system damage: it's a Rootkit, which is also the root of the problems :-) It doesn't show up in the Task manager, and it's severly bugged, causing many other programs to fail in various ways since it hacks into the core operating system.

Our general recommendation is to reboot the box after playing Flyff, and NOT do anything important while Flyff is running. What GameGuard does on individual systems seems to be somewhat random --- for a friend of mine it messes up the personal firewall, for another one it messes with Teamspeak, for me it messes with numbercrunching programs. All three of us can browse while Flyff is active, although it's slow as hell.

Note that a reboot will not eliminate GameGuard, but it causes it to be in some "dormant" state, until either Flyff or some 3rd party malware uses it to mess with the system. Deinstalling Flyff will NOT remove GameGuard, so you have to remove it manually to repair the system.

Do NOT install Flyff if the box is imporant in any way.

All of this probably applies to Space Cowboy and other crap from these people as well. I can understand that the games themselves are not top quality, but using what little resources they have to make rootkits instead of working on the game is just...

Occasionally I'm thinking about "virtualizing" GameGuard --- adding a new shell around it and Flyff, so both think they are running properly, seeing the damage they are causing, while in reality the system is completely healthy. But then.... there's only 24h in a day :-(