Short Summary:
Can’t run Genshin and Lost Ark at same time anymore, hoping changes can be made so I can run both game at the same time again.
Full details:
This game has so many events literally too hard to track without the event timer. And it takes so long to load the game so sometimes when the game is loaded it’s already too late to make it to the event entrance.
To save all the hassle I used to let the game idle in background until the next event while I do my dailies & farming on Genshin, which worked out pretty well.
This is no longer possible after the Vykas release. Now EAC is preventing Genshin from loading while Lost Ark is present. If I have Genshin running then EAC will report error and will not load up Lost Ark.
I’m pretty sure Genshin is not the only game being impacted. Yes I can close one to run another for sure; it’s just more hassle and with likelihood of missing upcoming events.
I do enjoy playing Lost Ark, that’s why I always had it running. I can easily come back and join the upcoming event while I finish up dailies on other games.
Hopefully something could be done so I could run both games at same time again. I mean, AGS would like to have more players online too right? The players doing events now are noticeably less than before, this change would make things even worse. I mean, if I have to play LA more casually so I can load up other games freely. I really have no choice right?
I have exactly the same problem which is super annoying!
And if I run Genshin Impact first then launch Lost Ark, it worked last week but this week here comes:
Idk what Easy Anti Cheat detects but this now happens every time when I launched GI and try to launch LA afterwards. The whole Windows 11 will be frozen for like 5-8 seconds before this prompt shows up too.
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I used to play both games at the meantime while I was waiting for events to happen in LA (like world bosses, chaos gates, etc.) but I had to launch GI first since the first Wednesday maintenance and now both games can’t run at the meantime any more.
It’s not about CPU/GPU useage - it’s about not being able to run two games at the same time and running both GI and LA is not a big deal on current popular hardware.
You have to wait for many events to happen in LA and what can you do while waiting? Playing another game doesn’t hurt I guess?
Hi OP, I found a temporary solution. It’s not the best, but at least it works.
Reboot your PC and run GI then immediately launch LA. LA may takes a while to load, but you’d be good to go as long as there is no EAC error promot.
Check my screenshot below:
Well, AGS’s own game New World uses EAC too, but you can run both NW and GI without any issues at all. There must be something wrongly coded in LA with EAC. No way EAC in NW is compatible with GI, and suddenly in LA it isn’t.
doesn’t seem to work for me
so you launch genshin then click on LA, does genshin start running before EAC window showing up?
Do you have steam already loaded or it’s a fresh start on steam as well?
Yes, you have to be very fast. I’d say less than 2 seconds. Run GI and immediately launch LA
I have Steam preloaded - my Steam starts with my Windows automatically, as I don’t want to manually start Steam every day.
power on or reboot your PC
wait till Steam launches (I assume you let it remember your credentials for auto login?)
(optional) add Genshin Impact’s exe file (not the launcher) as a non Steam game
run GI and accept its prompt of requesting admin access
immediately click the “Play” button of LA
EAC will not show you an error message if you succeeded
You can see both games are running per my screenshot (LA won’t even launch if EAC detects GI’s anti cheat plugin)
A potential alternative yet somewhat counter intuitive is, BlueStacks does work at the same time as LA as I play Azur Lane on the side and with Genshin being by the same maker and mobile you could emulate the mobile version via bluestacks and do it that way.
