Is it possible..
by Apeiron on Sunday July 5th 2009, 3:28
Is it possible to simply detect if GameGuard is installed and running, and just return success for any system calls it does? In theory, wouldn't that please GG and cause it to "run," as well as the game it's "hooked" to?
I don't know what calls GG makes or if it's possible to simply return success for all the calls without it simply crashing, but is it at least worth a shot?
Gameguard versions
by Paul Hampson on Saturday February 7th 2009, 9:33
There seems to be three Gameguard versions listed in the appdb, but none of them actually have version numbers, they're all marked as "bundled". They probably should be merged unless meaningful versioning is available.
Given it's an online-games protection service and presumably continuously updated, I doubt there's a meaningful versioning system available.
NEED THIS TO WORK!
by John Pycroft on Sunday June 15th 2008, 2:44
guys please, i'm sure this must be one of your highest priorities, and if not, it should be, there are so many gamers and games out there that are refusing to come to linux, thus we need linux to come to them, if we got this working, it would solve endless problems with games
Rootkit
by Justin Soulia on Monday April 21st 2008, 18:35
GameGuard is what you call a rootkit, which injects itself into system files. GameGuard cannot function in WINE right now because WINE simply doesn't support the low-level access to files such as gdi32.dll and ntdll.dll (to name a few) which would aid it in functioning. The games themselves will not function without GameGuard because they are designed to close out if GameGuard cannot run. Right now, the only real way that GameGuard will work on WINE is if nProtect adds support for WINE, but that probably won't happen.
Also, the fact that GameGuard "isn't an exe" has nothing to do with whether it functions or not. It hides away in dll's and runs it's processes hidden under the guise of the files it injected itself into. It figures out when you are using a program to cheat or take screenshots through the use of these low-level features in it's host files.
Lineage2
by Maximiliano Casta n on Thursday March 22nd 2007, 22:44
This program, is added to Lineage2 too, this game doesn't work on Linux, some time ago i use Lineage2, but this say about an error 620, when the GameGuard is not initialized...