I crash after i pick my character and then hit play. Generally, it will pop up with a generic 'clien has crashed' error before the little box that says loading the world or w/e, before the actual loading screen. Sometimes, i get the same error but it waits till the loading screen, as soon as the bar for the loading screen shows up it crashes. Rarely, i pick my char and it just flat out crashes with no errors.
As for Hshield, ijl, and all that, i have not tested them yet. I simply figured out it was abyss, and that no matter the options i tick, i can still get the problem. I may or may not test more later, doing stuff irl atm and i spent a lotta time testing and being certain of the issue. I'd log in 3x consecutively with no errors and no changes to any of the settings, then i'd change a setting and immediately error, and when i'd revert back to the previous setting as in before that error, i'd error again. So it was confusing the hell outta me trying to originally determine data or abyss crashing me, till i finally went for 5 successful consecutive log-ins with no changes.
CoalChris, thanks for the consideration. Depending on how things go, may make use of that.
Sounds to me more like you need to use anticrash version. I myself am using it, and have had no issues. All i did was run the default launcher with out hackshield running. Copied the zip file in the patch folder to my desktop, once it said it was cleaning extracted file. Open the zip, and copy all the files in it to the directory. I also made sure the launcher/crackshield was closed before doing it. One of the other things i do is keep a back up of the original mabinogi.exe renamed to Mabinogi Default Launcher.exe, as well as use powerpatcher for my main exe. I "prefer to direct launch client" but i digress. After copying files from the zip i run the default launcher again, and all it does is verify the files in the directory. Seeing as they were copied in there it already is updated. I also for the last thing i do run the hackshield updater with crackshield running. then I run the client. "
BUT I DO RUN THE CLIENT AS A LAST STEP ONCE I UPDATED MY DATA FOLDER WITH THE PACK FILE EXTRACTED AND SIMPLY COPY AND PASTED THEM OVER ORIGINAL TIARA INSTALLED FOLDER". to not confuse anyone.
Step 1. Close crackshield and make sure client.exe is not running in task manager.
Step 2. Run default launcher IE Mabinogi.exe mine is named Mabinogi Default Launcher.exe
Step 3. Once it says cleaning extracted file i open a folder named patch in the directory and copy the 181_182.zip by drag and drop to desktop.
Step 4. Open that zip, drag and drop all the contents to the installation directory.
Step 5. Run mabiunpack.exe under file select open and navigate to the 181_182.pack that was extracted from the zip to the pack folder when you copied all the files to the directory.
Step 6. Copy those files that were extracted with mabiunpack.exe and paste them over the content in the data folder. this will eliminate any issues with outdated xml or txt files. ( i do these steps every update.) but this eliminates other mods examples being view deadly as red color. even though abyss has this option built in. >_>
Step 7. Run crackshield.exe and navigate into the Hshield folder and in the update folder i run the autoup.exe click start and let it do its thing.
Step 8. Run either your launcher being Powerpatcher, louges launcher, or the default launcher. Let it verify your files but doing this while crackshield is also closed. once it finishes run crackshield and run the launcher again and click the start button.
if these steps do not fix any issues you are having then they are strictly abyss or mod_sharker problems. or even quite possibly another issue. not sure what mainly because i did these steps and have had no problems. NONE!
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