Anticheat preventing PC shutdown.

[Pen Sealed]

The anticheat of this game doesn't close after game does, and also doesn't allow windows always shut down either. What the hell is it doing in the background and how do I firewall it?

[Pen Sealed]

Originally posted by Calv:

If you open up Services is the nProtect service still running?
Can you manually stop it?

It's hard to tell since it usually becomes apparent only after trying to shut down windows, and you are stuck on looking spinning balls for hours. But i just stopped playing helldivers, closed the app, and the vProtect gameguard service is indeed still running. I manually tried to terminate it, and it locks up my task manager for a good while before recovering, but service remains running.
It doesn't happen always, but when it does no force on earth seems to make it stop except hard power down of the PC.

[Kleo ツ]

I had pretty much the same issue Pen, back around 2020 when a friend got me into the non-Steam NA release of Phantasy Star Online 2 which, at the time, I had no idea was running GameGuard.

Shutdown would just hang on exactly the same screen you describe and I'd have to force it. I also had the only SSD I've ever lost just die out of nowhere a month later as well.

[Theldras]

if you want to play this game, get used to it, because theres no way around it since the game comes with this malware and force installs it, and be prepared to replace SSD and possibly even GPU and CPU as this malware is known to shut down fan and temp control leading to overheats and dead hardware if you keep this malware installed on your system.

[Windam]

Have the issue with lot of other issue , worse anti-cheat ever

[OldSauLR]

same thing happened to me on lineage 2 with smart guard anticheat service. also anticheat comes up with an error if i try to run the game with memory integrity feature and i have to turn it off to play the game.
whats your pc specs ?
win11, 7700x, rtx4080

[★ ace ★]

what if you press the power button or remove the power cord, I do that when I want to remove electricity from the device.

[Kobold]

All issued related to nguard can be solved when you use Linux, check out my easy gaming guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/553850/discussions/2/7599331177361006128/

[★ ace ★]

Originally posted by Kobold:

All issued related to nguard can be solved when you use Linux, check out my easy gaming guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/553850/discussions/2/7599331177361006128/

they don't need to install another operating system to kill a task, either they can restart the PC or kill the process

[Tharkkun]

Originally posted by OldSauLR:

same thing happened to me on lineage 2 with smart guard anticheat service. also anticheat comes up with an error if i try to run the game with memory integrity feature and i have to turn it off to play the game.
whats your pc specs ?
win11, 7700x, rtx4080

Lots of games force off the memory integrity portion of Windows Defender. It's a huuuuuge known issue on degrading performance.

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by ★ ace ★:

what if you press the power button or remove the power cord, I do that when I want to remove electricity from the device. :cupup:

This can harm your computer please do not forcibly shut off a computer via hard boot or pulling the plug often rofl bad advice 🤣

Originally posted by Theldras:

if you want to play this game, get used to it, because theres no way around it since the game comes with this malware and force installs it, and be prepared to replace SSD and possibly even GPU and CPU as this malware is known to shut down fan and temp control leading to overheats and dead hardware if you keep this malware installed on your system.

Generally the purpose of malware is to dig into your system and steal data, why would they intentionally brick your PC when they have no reason to while they would supposedly have full access to your systems info? That data is worth more then gold if they sold it, rather then pointlessly bricking PCs it doesn't make sense really.

[★ ace ★]

Originally posted by KingOfFriedChicken:

This can harm your computer please do not forcibly shut off a computer via hard boot or pulling the plug often rofl bad advice 🤣

Tell that to my heatsink made from a potato and the case that's the motherboard box. You'll mostly hear about ransomware and RAT's nowadays, bad/threat actors don't want to destroy the device. If anything exfiltrate data or have it become part of a botnet.

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by ★ ace ★:

Originally posted by KingOfFriedChicken:

This can harm your computer please do not forcibly shut off a computer via hard boot or pulling the plug often rofl bad advice 🤣

Tell that to my heatsink made from a potato and the case that's the motherboard box. :cuphead: You'll mostly hear about ransomware and RAT's nowadays, bad/threat actors don't want to destroy the device. If anything exfiltrate data or have it become part of a botnet.

Should upgrade to watermelon heatsink would be my advice, unless you like crispy potatoes :p