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Tom Gerard
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Posted - 2012.07.08 08:07:00 -
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CCP may be unware of this but it affects their product.
I dumbly stumbled across a bug, running the EVE launcher on Windows 7 WITHOUT an internet connection causes the launcher to go into an infinite loop. I thought this was really wierd, so I did some investigation. Apparently a dependency exists between EVE launcher and Games Explorer, When offline, this causes an infinite loop is it waits until it can send a packet to 65.55.162.27, if it fails to goes on to the next port... there are thousands of ports, and it restarts at port 9999. This is the GamesUI letting Microsoft know your playing EVE online.
Why exactly does Microsoft need to know I am playing EVE?
Is there a way to launch EVE without using the Games Explorer?
I have read it is possible to disable Games Explorer, but will that affect my ability to launch EVE? |
Pipa Porto
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.07.08 08:10:00 -
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Posting in a Tom Gera.... wait...
Actually, the last one seems pretty easy to test, assuming you can easily re-enable Games explorer. -RubyPorto
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Chokichi Ozuwara
Royal One Piece Corporation Deadly Unknown
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Posted - 2012.07.08 08:13:00 -
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I like Tom Gerard. He is the scooter Kondur of this generation. Tears will be shed and pants will need to be changed all round. |
dexington
Lysergic.acid.diethylamide
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Posted - 2012.07.08 08:20:00 -
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Tom Gerard wrote:Why exactly does Microsoft need to know I am playing EVE?
If you really feel this is a privacy issue you should change your firewall settings, so connections to that host is not allowed. I'm not sure what technology the game launcher is based on, by it may use a microsoft browser component or similar that connects to microsoft.
I do think it somewhat strange you consider this a privacy issue, while at the same time running Windows 7. If you really think microsoft is spying on you, they can retrieve much more valuable information through the operating system, then the game launcher. |
Tom Gerard
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Posted - 2012.07.08 08:26:00 -
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dexington wrote:Tom Gerard wrote:Why exactly does Microsoft need to know I am playing EVE? If you really feel this is a privacy issue you should change your firewall settings, so connections to that host is not allowed. I'm not sure what technology the game launcher is based on, by it may use a microsoft browser component or similar that connects to microsoft. I do think it somewhat strange you consider this a privacy issue, while at the same time running Windows 7. If you really think microsoft is spying on you, they can retrieve much more valuable information through the operating system, then the game launcher.
If you block it, the infinite loop occurs.
Anyway further research shows it is entirely Microsoft's doing. If you kill games explorer the launcher works flawlessly and a few hundred milliseconds faster =P
To disable games explorer: Run Regedit Navigate to Local Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\GameUX
There will be three directories, right click and export the one not named Games or Machinesettings as Recovery.reg
Then delete the folder.
And Games Explorer will be disabled, the recovery.reg will turn it back on again with a double click of your mouse. |
Vera Algaert
Republic University Minmatar Republic
223
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Posted - 2012.07.08 08:30:00 -
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I don't get the "privacy issue" part? is it just letting MS know you play EVE or something additional?
look at all the parameters EVE sends (unencrypted) over the network when requesting the motd and you'll see how much CCP cares for your "privacy". |
Tarsus Zateki
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.07.08 09:27:00 -
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The privacy issue in your post is irrelevant but that is an interesting bug. You should file a bug report about it instead of coming on the forums and using a neat bug as your paranoid E-Privacy soap box. There's an option in game to file bug reports but it does ask for information that will likely cause your head to explode. You asked me once, what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world. |
Pipa Porto
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
277
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Posted - 2012.07.08 09:33:00 -
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Tom Gerard wrote:dexington wrote:Tom Gerard wrote:Why exactly does Microsoft need to know I am playing EVE? If you really feel this is a privacy issue you should change your firewall settings, so connections to that host is not allowed. I'm not sure what technology the game launcher is based on, by it may use a microsoft browser component or similar that connects to microsoft. I do think it somewhat strange you consider this a privacy issue, while at the same time running Windows 7. If you really think microsoft is spying on you, they can retrieve much more valuable information through the operating system, then the game launcher. If you block it, the infinite loop occurs. Anyway further research shows it is entirely Microsoft's doing. If you kill games explorer the launcher works flawlessly and a few hundred milliseconds faster =P To disable games explorer:Run Regedit Navigate to Local Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\GameUX There will be three directories, right click and export the one not named Games or Machinesettings as Recovery.reg Then delete the folder. And Games Explorer will be disabled, the recovery.reg will turn it back on again with a double click of your mouse.
Now that that is sorted, how do you get the non-boxed quotes? -RubyPorto
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Solstice Project
I'm So Meta Even This Acronym
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Posted - 2012.07.08 09:56:00 -
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You use the game explorer ? O_o Inappropriate signature removed. Spitfire |
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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises Otherworld Empire
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Posted - 2012.07.08 10:00:00 -
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You should be limited to one silly post per month.
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Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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Posted - 2012.07.08 10:08:00 -
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I suspect this will be the games explorer feature which tells Microsoft about what people are playing.
Which you can turn off, within games explorer. FuzzWork Enterprises http://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/ Blueprint calculator, invention chance calculator, isk/m3 Ore chart-á and other 'useful' utilities. |
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