GameGaurd Error Bypass

[Shinta Himura]

For those of you running X64 Vista or Win 7 and can't get PSO2 to work. Try this method and see if it works for you as it did for me

1. Download Sandboxie at http://www.sandboxie.com/attic/SandboxieInstall-346.exe Edit: Updated to the exact version i was using since i think that had something to do with this working

2. Install it, You may or maynot have to restart. After you do, Open up The Sandboxie Control and click on the Sandbox Tab at the top. Then click Create New sandbox.

Enter any name for the sandbox, I used PSO to make it simple.

You should see it in the list now.

3.Right click on your recently created sandbox and select "Sandbox Settings"
You should see a window with alot of settings.

Your going to ignore everything except the following.

Restrictions--
---Drop Rights
_____ Make sure "Drop rights form administrator" is checked

---Low Level Access
_____ Make sure EVERYTHING is checked

~~~Hardware Acesss
_____ Make sure EVERYTHING is checked

Resource Access--
~~~File Access
-----Direct Access
______ Add in your C Drive And which ever drive PSO is also installed on
-----Full Access
______ Same as Direct Access

~~~ Window Access
_____ Click Add and input *

Your sandbox is now ready to use!

4. Once the PSO2 sandbox is created, right click on it
~~~Run Sandboxed
---------Run Any Program
___________Browse for pso2launcher.exe

If you don't want to right click your PSO2 shortcut or PSO2 launcher everytime if you have the full version of the program.
Go back inside of the Sandbox Settings.
Go to Program Start.
Click Forced Folders.
Add in the folder for PSO and your set.

Its worked for many players so If this doesn't work for you send some feedback and i'll see if i can help.


Edit: Just to clarify, this DOES NOT bypass gamegaurd. All it does is keep the error from poping up by putting Gamegaurd in a much more stable environment. Yes Gamegaurd will still continue to work and do all of its Anti-Hacking.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Bypassing Gameguard will probably flag you as a wicked user though.

[Shinta Himura]

Read my new edit - It won't
Anyone who knows sandboxie knows this does not stop gamegaurd. Its only helping gamegaurd run better with windows.

As proof, ITs still closing random processes and making my IE, FF AND chrome freeze only when PSO2 is loaded

[IndigoNovember]

Got these errors when I followed your guide (followed all the steps, restarted my computer after installation):

SBIE2303 Could not hook VerifyCatalogFile (33, 5)
SBIE2318 DLL initialization failed for 'setupapi.dll'
SBIE2303 Could not hook CryptProtectData (33, 5)
SBIE2318 DLL initialization failed for 'crypt32.dll'

[Yamishi]

Apparently, I can't force it to run PSO2 in the sandbox, as that feature is only available to registered users...

And when you say "Right click on your shortcut," what do I do next? The right click menu offers me Open, Run as Administrator, and Properties. None of which allow me to play PSO2 without the GameGuard error.

[Shinta Himura]

Ignore those errors. I get those as well.
Game should still load, If not I'll look through my configs again to see if anything is diffrent

@yamishi Ah ofc. In that case go to the Sandboxie Controll and right click your sandbox and select Run Sandboxed ---> Run Any program

[Yamishi]

Ignore those errors. I get those as well.
Game should still load, If not I'll look through my configs again to see if anything is diffrent

@yamishi Ah ofc. In that case go to the Sandboxie Controll and right click your sandbox and select Run Sandboxed ---> Run Any program

Ah, got it. It's starting pso2.exe now, but it's really slow... is that to be expected, or did I do something wrong?

[Shinta Himura]

It has to load files into sandboxie as required by the client. So first few loads will be slow.

[IndigoNovember]

Ignore those errors. I get those as well.
Game should still load, If not I'll look through my configs again to see if anything is diffrent

I got those errors as well as the game still crashing. I can get as far in as logging into my account before I get the usual error.

[Shinta Himura]

Strange, Just double checked the settings and it should be working. What OS are you using?

Also make sure you are using a administrator account/run as admin when running sandboxie or else gamegaurd will not use sandboxie at all.