We should be able to run other games while Lost Ark is idling in background

The game is also still rendering everything at full throttle even when on the background.

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How is this a complain? Game feedback is for suggestions no?

This is a relatively old game, so if you don’t use those parameters to launch the game it only consumes relatively small amount of CPU and GPU usage.

We see you @ytzyt. Thank you for the feedback, I will get this report over to the Dev team to review. :slightly_smiling_face:

Thank you :sparkling_heart:

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:
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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.
@ o-o

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?

Sign, I guess this will never get fixed.

I was able to run FO76, and B&S while having lost ark still up without crashing guessing some games work

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:

I guess we have a brief window of opportunity to run boths apps before anti cheating of two games conflicts with each other.

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.

  1. power on or reboot your PC
  2. wait till Steam launches (I assume you let it remember your credentials for auto login?)
  3. (optional) add Genshin Impact’s exe file (not the launcher) as a non Steam game
  4. run GI and accept its prompt of requesting admin access
  5. immediately click the “Play” button of LA
  6. 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)

    I doubt AGS will help us any soon, and this solution is far from perfect, but at least we can play both via such a method.

A bit off topic but New World also uses EAC and apparently you can play NW and GI at the meantime.

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Damn I’m not as lucky still can’t get them to run at same time. Thanks for sharing though.

Are you running both games on SSD? Not sure if loading speed is a factor

yeah both on SSD
but I get either the error or genshin won’t load
sadge

I’m running both games on latest Windows 11 if this helps.

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.

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I tried to reply to you earlier, but it seems my ISP at home prevents me from accessing this forum. I’m using my company’s network to tell you some new findings.

Maybe I thought too much - somehow the previous workaround started to not work well and I’m not sure if AGS or EAC changed something after checking our comments. That said, I’d rather share my new workaround with you via Reddit, Twitter, or other platforms discreetly and so far it works pretty well for me.

Let me know what you think of my proposal.

I highly doubt if that’s the case
The changes have to be made on EAC don’t think AGS can do that
But yeah sure if you have any other work arounds that I could try please send me a msg or something
I was thinking the instance you had them both running was probably unstable so it’s hard to reproduce