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When launching Lost Ark to offset a play session, players have become accustomed to experiencing noticeably long load times, ranging anywhere from five to x minutes betwixt pressing the play push button and reaching the game'due south splash screen. The cause for this delay, every bit the first matter displayed by the MMO's boot sequence, is quite obvious — the cumbersome, nonetheless noticeably effective Easy Anti-Cheat.

Easy Anti-Cheat is activated before Lost Ark can launch, which first scans the game's file folder for malicious or competitively dishonest software. Having fully scanned this binder and detected no threats, it then proceeds to scan the balance of the drive on which the game'due south files are independent.

Under circumstances in which Lost Ark shares a drive with operating organisation files or folders total of other games, this approach to competitive integrity can produce overwhelming and undue work for Easy Anti-Cheat to process. As a result, it will take longer for Easy to end scanning the player'south system and eventually let Lost Ark to launch.

Speeding up launch times: Giving easy the boot

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If the problem that seems to be delaying Lost Ark's launch is Like shooting fish in a barrel Anti-Cheat'southward overstepping of Lost Ark's virtual bounds, then the elementary solution would exist to limit what Easy can browse, right? Unfortunately, it'due south not quite that simple. Smilegate relies heavily on Piece of cake to combat in-game currency farmers operating bot farms within their lucrative MMO.

Lest they watch the marketplace value of argent and gold craters, the developers are taking every precaution necessary to combat cheating in their game, even if it means policing external programs as a precaution.

In the concurrently, however, players can do good from giving Like shooting fish in a barrel Anti-Cheat the easiest boot cycle possible. If they can afford the hardware, it is recommended to motion Lost Ark abroad from organization files and onto a solid-land drive, preferably ane that is shared with as few other files or games equally possible, if whatever at all. Isolating Lost Ark to its own bulldoze tin can carve down its launch time to around a minute on moderately-powerful and up-to-date systems.

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