Anticheat eats up Disk Space when Dark and Darker isn't running

[SarcasticRomantic]

I've been troubleshooting a 100% disk usage error for the past several hours, and the cause of this error appears to have been a stubborn anticheat installed by this game. The anticheat appeared in task manager as "taverncomn", and ran even when the game was not running. After uninstalling the game, the anticheat continued to run in the background and I needed to perform several fix actions after it was uninstalled in order to fix my PC. In order to determine if you are having this issue, check task manager using ctrl+shift+esc and sort by disk usage. The fix actions, for anyone else who has this issue, is as follows:

- Uninstall Dark and Darker

- In "C:/user/yourusername/appdata/local" you may find software with names such as "taverncomn", "ironmace", "dungeon crawler", or "blacksmith". Right click and delete.

- Lastly, you must clear the items from Registry Editor. Press the windows key, type "Registry Editor", and navigate to the following folder using the tab on the lefthand side of the window: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software". After I deleted Registry Editor objects following the aforementioned nomenclature of "taverncomn", "ironmace", "dungeon crawler", or "blacksmith", my chronic 100% disk usage resolved in seconds.

I don't know why this anticheat did this, and I do not claim it to be intentional malware. But the developers have failed to comment on this issue and I cannot advise playing this game until this issue is addressed.

[Lews Therin Telamon]

Thanks for the detailed guide

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yea they need to have it with an icon when running like steam or vanguard where you can manually close it when not playing the game ASAP in my opinion its not a good look for them as it is now

[Fdpulpe]

I dont have this problem dude

[Fdpulpe]

I not have 100% usage in my ssd or a thing like this. But i notify one thing, why the service "TavernComn_1_1" are running now for me ? because i dont have the game opened now, its not normal and i dont like this 👈⚠️⚠️

[Frost310]

i don't find this problem, i just checked the task manager

[Sdub]

I have had instances of taverncomn_1_1 running after closing the game. It's probably a bug more than anything. It is a little sketchy though.

[MeKLiN]

i have NEVER seen those two services use more than 0.01% cpu usage, in game or out of game, you need to run CHKDSK /f on that drive so next time you play a game which actually cares about cheaters and scans peoples drives for them and kicks all the fortnite hackers off our server? are you still with us, son? it will be able to do that without crashing your os with unreadable sectors. thats what CHKDSK.EXE does and it is a NTFS (WINDOWS MICROSOFT ONLY FILESYSTEM) proprietary thing that must be used by their stuff and only their stuff not FSCK on linux or gnome-disk-tools:


WINDOWS KEY + R
CMD
SC STOP TAVERNWORKER_1_1
SC STOP TAVERNCOMN_1_1

instead of winkey+r , CMD , you may winkey+r , NOTEPAD
save the two sc stop COMMAND LINE commands i wrote above, save as 'all files' not '.txt'

type STOPSERV.BAT
you now can close them with a double click (if they stay open when you are not playing the game and DO test that they ARE increasing your profile game play hours incorrectly and want to find out if that is why)

DISABLING SERVICES THROUGH DOS BY DR MEKLIN:
sc config schedule start= disabled
sc config audiosrv start= auto
sc config TAVERNWORKER_1_1 start= demand

this changes the START DWORD VALUE in HKLM\system\control\controlset001\services from:
4 (disabled)
3: auto
1 system start
2 demand
0 boot start
correct me if im wrong

[MeKLiN]

this dude is crazier than me you need a .BAT file to run the game? while im here REPOST:

Launch Dark Darker From DOS
PAGE FILE:
WindowsKey+R = Run, sysdm.cpl > Advanced > Performance/settings > Advanced > Virtual memory/change > Set no Page file to all drives, click set
16gb ram? 8192-16384
32gb ram? 8192

DOS BATCH FILE: line for line exact, save from notepad as .BAT file and change your steam.exe directory, tested working date of this post, login server ip portal subject to change:
sc start tavernworker_1_1
"e:\steam\steamapps\common\dark and darker\tavern.exe" -server=http://54.148.133.180:30000 -steam=1 -taverntype=steam -tavernapp=dad

this batch file will automatically open DungeonCrawler.exe after it is run, the first line starts the service, so if you dont have permission to do that, try NSUDO or RUNAS with processhacker. yes, there are 'steam' shortcut .lnk files, but why not do it the master of windows 7 and 10's way?
aside from the parameters taverntype, tavernapp, and steam=1, i have some rust stuff and unity/unreal launch stuff:

-malloc=system
+mat_antialias 0
yes, some steam launch parameters use a + sign instead of a - sign, they are not from DOS

-USEALLAVAILABLECORES
-window-mode exclusive
this one above does some strange things on the full screen display as far as showing what its actually on, it will be 1920, but say its 1280x780 , etc

-sm4
there are many more you can use such as -refresh 144, etc, you can set how much ram the app uses as well



alright sorry, i'll stay out of the steam tech support area with 35 years of windows and programming knowledge then. the ghosts of outsourced, hollowed out american industries comparing destroyed will and creativity or reference knowledge replaced by 'windows technical support' AI cookie-cut "just type /sfc scan now", a plague of disinformation and monopolized sales of it to every unique question online, every suffering child on his first gaming pc, raped by modern internet moguls and their websites which will all be keyworded to those unique questions replacing anything made by someone like me who has fixes, registry editor knowledge, will be then sold to the highest bidder on a 'good return tech website' start-up, every single one with the same answer, "sfc-scan now!" the censorship and total destruction of the american amendments turning your forum into yet another barren wastelands like that of unanswered reddit threads now numbering in the thousands.

[MeKLiN]

login server subject to change use process hacker to check the launch command line as it appears through steam on the GAME binary not the services that can just be SC START or SC STOP 'ed

[MeKLiN]

my PERSONAL dark darker (i launch through steam, but if you need MORE parameters, i reccomend DOS launch, though steam allowed more in the right click properties 'launch options' area of each game: note -high doesnt work for d&D but i leave in hopes
-nolog -high -malloc=system -maxMem=20000 -cpuCount=6 -exThreads=12 -refresh 165 -dxlevel 80 -force-d3d11-no-singlethreaded +mat_antialias 0 -USEALLAVAILABLECORES -window-mode exlusive -sm4 -nopopupwindow -force-feature-evel-11-0 -winxp

my PERSONAL steam.exe launch params (both run thru notepad saved as .BAT file!) bat files!
e:\steam\steam.exe -steamos -no-browser -nofriendsui -nochatui -manuallyclearframes 0 -nodircheck -norepairfiles -noverifyfiles -nocrashmonitor -nocloud -nocrashdialog -vrdisable -skipstreamingdrivers -single_core -cef-disable-cpu -cef-disable-sandbox +open steam://open/minigameslist
TIMEOUT /T 30
EXIT

note minigame list bugged recently, not sure if work, note: cef commands picked up from processhacker via 'compatability' launch, its go to once it cant run (i run from windows logon screen, i have no desktop, im a guest with less win services activated at boot thus so), note i have SC CONFIG STEAMSERVICE START= DISABLED as wel as the .exe binary for it renamed, an error provided at every game launch (it tries to acccess it every time a game launch even if disabled! steam service is a VIRUS!) and then i want to get rid of steamerrorreporter64.exe too, perhaps cuz it run after games close/steam is closing? so my batch will include, rename the RENAMED AT BEGINING OF COMPUTRE BOOT/BEROFRE I LAUNCH STEAM: errorreporter64.ex (renamed, useless form: .ex ), then change back to .exe in a CLOSE STEAM SCRIPT so it doesnt keep give me the error or when it patches so it doesnt redownload it)

[Mr.TopKing]

Originally posted by SarcasticRomantic:

I've been troubleshooting a 100% disk usage error for the past several hours, and the cause of this error appears to have been a stubborn anticheat installed by this game. The anticheat appeared in task manager as "taverncomn", and ran even when the game was not running. After uninstalling the game, the anticheat continued to run in the background and I needed to perform several fix actions after it was uninstalled in order to fix my PC. In order to determine if you are having this issue, check task manager using ctrl+shift+esc and sort by disk usage. The fix actions, for anyone else who has this issue, is as follows:

- Uninstall Dark and Darker

- In "C:/user/yourusername/appdata/local" you may find software with names such as "taverncomn", "ironmace", "dungeon crawler", or "blacksmith". Right click and delete.

- Lastly, you must clear the items from Registry Editor. Press the windows key, type "Registry Editor", and navigate to the following folder using the tab on the lefthand side of the window: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software". After I deleted Registry Editor objects following the aforementioned nomenclature of "taverncomn", "ironmace", "dungeon crawler", or "blacksmith", my chronic 100% disk usage resolved in seconds.

I don't know why this anticheat did this, and I do not claim it to be intentional malware. But the developers have failed to comment on this issue and I cannot advise playing this game until this issue is addressed.

Hammers your computer like a woman getting hammered in bed

[Drstrange]

+1

[m]

My disk usage is 0-1% with the game open and the same with the game closed.

TavernWorker also closes for me when the game is closed. Are you on Win10 or 11?