One of these is Garenaplatform, which is essentially the launcher itself. The beautiful thing about G2.0, is it split the old systems of G+, which was only one process, into like 4 or so. What is GarenaPlatform and what don't you just turn it off. What I mean is, financially the gain that garena gets from selling the bitcoin they get from 10% utilization systems would be pretty meaningless in terms of their entire financials.īut hey, if you have a KMD, you can just make it so that cpu and gpu measures will return 5% utilization right? Looking at the nominal increases I think we can all agree that having a million computers running at less than 10% capacity for mining is inefficient and the returns would be meaningless for a company like Garena. Probably not, when I launch G2.0, my Cpu and GPU utilization rises by 8% and 2% respectively. As for now however, I have no idea, I have not checked. I didn't experience this in my G+ installation back then, so I just didn't include it. But aren't all viruses like that? Eh probably. It's essentially a virus just waiting for Garena's orders. With this KMD, Garena could potentially, access your computer from anywhere, log all your keystrokes, force a shutdown, etcetc.
" this Kernel mode driver has highest level of access to your computer," understates the possibility of this.
What is this kernel mode driver people are talking about?Īt around March-April of 2017, some guys found that garena was placing a kernel mode driver in computers that install it (Garena). I'll try to answer (with my experience) some concerns raised in the thread. So fuck me sideways amirite?ĮDIT 1: so I just woke up to this, it kinda blew up, I'll make another edit in a few minutes when I properly wake up. And I've been experiencing this since around nov 2017, and I did a clean wipe of my computer and redownloaded g2.0 from their site in january 2018. The best part is Garena has been deleting forum posts regarding these issues, because fuck you.Īnd before, someone brings it up, if you think my g2.0 is/has a virus, probably.
So normally, a patch can take a day to download properly. Plus the fact that only half my bandwidth goes to downloading? I can leave it downloading at 2 in the morning, and I can come back after my classes at 5 in the afternoon and it's still not done. that may not be much for most of you, but internet is pretty shitty in asia compared to the west. So normally, patches are like 600mb or so, but this unzipped patch is about a few gigs in my experience. It will download pretty normally until 25%, where they'll tell you garena2.0 was unable to fetch the patch, so it'll ask you to either cancel patching and dont play the game, or download the unzipped patch. Okay, so you get past the first 30 minutes of optimizing resources, only half of your speed goes to downloading the patch, and the other half to god knows where. Only 1.5mb/s is going to downloading the patch, the other 1.5mb/s is garena downloading something (something I don't know again). Here's the fun part about this, let's say your dl speed is 3mb/s.
When you try to update your game, garena will give you an arbitrary progress bar, at 10% it will say "optimizing resources", at this point bandwidth throttles, and it stays at optimizing resources for about 30 minutes.
Whenever you open the 2.0 launcher, it will immediately take up all bandwidth downloading something (I have no idea what it is), even when your client and games are all updated. Garena2.0 has been filled with bugs since the beginning, and Garena isn't even trying to fix them. They still supported the old Garena+ launcher until around late 2017, but after that they made updating the game impossible unless you were using Garena2.0. But in 2017 they decide to shift to a new launcher called Garena2.0. Prior to 2017, Garena has been using Garena+ as a sort of launcher hub for all their games (LoL, HoN, etc.), so you have to log-in to garena then look for your game click it and launch/update it from there.