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I have some questions regarding the facts of IXGNCODE
EDIT#1: Thank you for all the responses, all my questions were thoroughly answered and I now feel a lot more comfortable letting XIGNCODE install on my PC. One last question I have is whether XIGNCODE is safe for SSDs, or if it will drastically reduce their lifespan?
There is already a very popular opinion post on whether it's a good idea to have XIGNCODE, so please don't discuss your stance here whether it be in favor or against, I'm just looking for factual answers to questions regarding XIGNCODE through all the noise.
1) Will XIGNCODE have a significant impact (at least 10 fps loss) on a mid to high PC? My specs are a 1060 6GB and an i56400.
2) Will XIGNCODE only run while playing Tera, or will it take up performance space when I play other games too?
3) If I choose later on to uninstall Tera, will XIGNCODE uninstall with it, or linger on my computer and affect the performance of other games?
4) If XIGNCODE does not uninstall when uninstalling Tera, how complicated is it to uninstall XIGNCODE? Will I need extensive computer knowledge?
5) I've played many MMO's and I've heard that some MMO's use XIGNCODE. How can I check to determine whether XIGNCODE is already installed on my PC?
Thank you and remember this thread is only for the discussion of FACTS regarding XIGNCODE. Have a nice day!
There is already a very popular opinion post on whether it's a good idea to have XIGNCODE, so please don't discuss your stance here whether it be in favor or against, I'm just looking for factual answers to questions regarding XIGNCODE through all the noise.
1) Will XIGNCODE have a significant impact (at least 10 fps loss) on a mid to high PC? My specs are a 1060 6GB and an i56400.
2) Will XIGNCODE only run while playing Tera, or will it take up performance space when I play other games too?
3) If I choose later on to uninstall Tera, will XIGNCODE uninstall with it, or linger on my computer and affect the performance of other games?
4) If XIGNCODE does not uninstall when uninstalling Tera, how complicated is it to uninstall XIGNCODE? Will I need extensive computer knowledge?
5) I've played many MMO's and I've heard that some MMO's use XIGNCODE. How can I check to determine whether XIGNCODE is already installed on my PC?
Thank you and remember this thread is only for the discussion of FACTS regarding XIGNCODE. Have a nice day!
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i dont think, i have better cpu than you, but your graphic card is better than mine
Removing from your computer is simple. All you gotta use is regedit and then reboot your computer, and done, goodbye XIGNCODE.
- Xigncode3 will remain on your pc even if you uninstall tera. You can, however, remove Xigncode3 itself after you remove game that you downloaded it with. I've done this myself before when I quit BnS (even tho I reinstalled Xigncode3 later because I play BDO.)
- You can check your registry for Xigncode3, as this is where you have to go to remove lingering traces of it. I forget how to do so but if you google how to remove Xigncode3 it'll come up.
- Xigncode3 starts running when you launch a game that uses it. It will not, to my knowledge, run upon startup. I'm not sure about after you close the game however.
- I haven't noticed performance drops in games unaffiliated with Xigncode3.
Hope this helps a bit.
(you can just delete it)
I can't remember the path, but I also removed a registry entry for xhunter.
(just Find "xhunter" delete entry... done)
games that need it won't work BTW and if you delete it after Tera installs it, I don't know if its a simple matter to get it back.
Generally it won't run while the game is not running, though it depends on implementation - it's possible it will run whenever the *launcher* is running.
Removing it is fairly straightforward, there are several guides online (as with any malware) on how to do it, but basically you delete the file, then open regedit, search for the few entries it adds, and delete those too.
Will it block multiple clients? Multiple accounts on the same computer? (I don't particularly care about these, but they are likely important for some of the community.)
Will it block other games that also use it from running concurrently with Tera? (Aion, for instance, seemed to work fine for having multiple Aion clients but it could not work concurrently with BDO. Going by what Google dragged up for me.)
Will it just scan the Tera game folder or will it try to hash the entire computer? (BDO seemed to have it set to scan the entire computer, which amounts to a full scan with an anti-virus while you're playing the game, with all the performance hits that that entails. So even if it's just for an initial scan, with then only any big hits if there's any big changes on the computer, this has the potential to very badly color user perception if it's the entire system.)
Will we have to worry about the mere presence of certain tools on the computer causing false positives? (PCAP is the main thing that springs to mind right away, though I'm sure that there are others. I'd not be fond of being unable to use the computer I play Tera on for any network work at all, just because various meters and such seem to also use it, from the cursory reading I've done.)
1) From what I understand, it depends in part on how they configure it, but I don't expect mid-to-high-end PCs will be the ones most severely impacted. (K-TERA has always had this, and their performance has typically been found to be the same or better, even with this on.)
2) From my experience with other games, it will typically close after you finish playing the game, unless the game crashes or it otherwise fails to close for some reason. In those occasional cases, I may kill the process.
3) Because the system driver is installed by the game (and not by the installer), the normal uninstall won't know to remove it. However, the driver doesn't do anything on its own. It can just be deleted if you no longer need it. It will not affect the performance of other games that don't use it.
4) See above, delete one file, and if you want to be thorough, a related registry entry. It is not complicated. (It could probably be easily scripted, if someone hasn't already done so.)
5) As was mentioned above, look for xhunter1.sys in your Windows folder. (If you don't find it there, you can do a search for it.) As was said, though, it doesn't do anything without being activated by a game that uses it.
these are all important questions and things eme should be transparent about, but i really doubt they even have a clue what they're adding to their client.
Can you clarify this part about multiple Tera clients for me? I often duo box IoD and some of the easier dungeons because it's impossible to find healers and I can tank and heal KC and SF at the same time just fine. I also trio box RG sometimes when I just want to get in done without waiting for people.
If I can't duo/trio box this whole xingcode is a non-starter issue for me. I will be thoroughly upset and likely stop playing. And yes I'm already upset because EME doesn't communicate and dropped a rootkit on us with no warning.
Agreed. Not to mention the amount of files the game that are already being touched and accessed constantly when you play the game itself, or the amount of files just accessed by Windows already on a daily basis. A system scan is tiny in the grand scheme of the number of reads an SSD can support.
scanning and hashing a 50gb TERA install constantly (at minimum, every time TERA is launched) is a LOT more strain on an SSD than installing something once. Not to mention how horrific tera already is for disk read/writes, and how having a program scanning and hashing while running tera will slow that down even more. Hello grey blobs! Hello invisible boss AOE's and skipped animations! Yaaaay!
We will see how it works soon for TERA enough. In the other games I've played that use the same software, it has not done anything nearly this aggressive or that puts that much strain on the drive or resources. "Constantly scanning and hashing" isn't the effective way to do it anyway.