Wallpaper engine crash due to Nahimic

[瑞安]

Hi All,
I know that this nahimic is a horrible driver, that works like a virus.
But since it's one of the necessary driver that my laptop needed, I can't just uninstall it.
BTW, this nahimic on asus it's different from MSI, I don't have a control panel for it, so I cannot disable overlay. (I tried download nahimic from Microsoft store, it's not working for my system)
Is there anyway to fix this problem, I don't want to just restart wallpaper engine every time it crashes.
My laptop is ROG GX701
Thank you

[瑞安]

This is the error
https://imgur.com/a/t5OjA63

[瑞安]

It sometimes doesn't happen for a entire day, but sometime it happen twice, three even four five times a day

[Biohazard]

Try renaming/moving the Nahimic DLLs with https://lockhunter.com/ to disable their injection into other programs.

Or prevent the Nahimic service from starting automatically, because you won't need it purely for having your audio working: https://steamcommunity.com/app/883710/discussions/0/1743358239836205250/?ctp=13#c3658515990058969401

[瑞安]

Originally posted by Biohazard:

Try renaming/moving the Nahimic DLLs with https://lockhunter.com/ to disable their injection into other programs.

Or prevent the Nahimic service from starting automatically, because you won't need it purely for having your audio working: https://steamcommunity.com/app/883710/discussions/0/1743358239836205250/?ctp=13#c3658515990058969401

Thank you so much for reply me, but how do I use this lockhunter app? Do I need to unlock and rename those two dll that cause problem? But wouldn't this cause problem to nahimic? Since nahimic cannot find required dlls?

[Biohazard]

Originally posted by MihoN:

Do I need to unlock and rename those two dll that cause problem? But wouldn't this cause problem to nahimic? Since nahimic cannot find required dlls?

Yes, you can try renaming the files through Windows first, but it may say that you can't do that because they're in use by other programs (injected into other programs).

If that's the case, use the lockhunter app on those two files. It detects which programs have been injected by them and you can use it to close all affected programs and become able to rename the two DLLs.

You don't need these files purely to have audio output. If you rename the files and you decide you want to put them back, you can do that by renaming them to their original names.

[DragRedSim]

I think I might have found a way to blacklist the Wallpaper Engine app from being hooked by Nahimic 3 (the WinStore version). It's not documented, but I haven't had any issues with WE crashing after doing this.

I added the following lines to the file "C:\ProgramData\A-Volute\A-Volute.Nahimic\Modules\Scheduled\Configurator\BlackApps.dat":

wallpaper32.exe
wallpaper64.exe
webwallpaper32.exe

Sidenote: their "support" is shocking. Seriously, they removed the option to report a problem on their support site. Like, say, an incompatibility with some other software. Already reported by the developer. And they just removed the issue discussion, and the ability to actually make issues.

[YoungZer0]

Thanks a lot RedIon1992. Finally a fix for that annoying Problem.

[Kaldaien]

Apologies for the necro, but this information seems to have vanished from Google and I think it's important.

Export a DWORD symbol "NoHotPatch" in your executable to prevent Nahimic from initializing.

No messing with any of Nahimic's config files necessary, the first thing it does when its DLL attaches is call GetProcAddress ("NoHotPatch") on the parent module and checks to see if it's flagged.