2010-12-11, 03:54 AM
Tikey Wrote:It seems that Nexon America did something to the client that Windows 7 highly disagrees with. The crashes that we're experiencing isn't the client itself crashing, but Windows itself is closing the client down which could be seen in Windows' Event Viewer ("ApplicationExperienceInfrastructure: The application (Maple story, from vendor Wizet) has the following problem: Maple story is incompatible with this version of Windows.") which would explain why Nexon's eTracer isn't popping up. This happened seldomly after Nexon's "compatibility patch," but it only worsened after the Big Bang patch.
This type of closure happened to me 50 times between 11/23 and 12/7 and 49 times between 12/7 and now.
I believe it's graphical related, which you can see if you go to a crowded or active map (like the FM or Gallos). The longer you stay in those maps, the more likely your menus will start acting glitchy and even more so Windows forcefully closing the client when you try to change your graphics or change channels.
From what I've heard, it's due to how Maplestory handles Graphical Memory. It was written for the Legacy build style for Windows (XP and I believe earlier), and this was changed with Vista and 7. Due to this, the weird way Graphical Memory is handled with Maplestory confuses the hell out of the new Windows OS systems, and often leads to lost/misread information, leading to those problems.
Basically a complete rewrite of the engine for Maplestory would be required to fix the issues. Something like that WOULD have been done in an update like BB, but since they didn't fix it, don't expect a fix...ever.
The best workaround for this, if you're encountering an unbareable amount of issues, is to set the Graphics on Lowest. Yeah, it makes it ugly as hell, but meanwhile it eliminates the majority of issues.