dreamsforgotten wrote:
I've been seeing users banned for using overlays and basically anything that edits the games files. What's your experience with using this mod and the softbans being handed out lately. I would love to give it a shot.
The difference is overlays, and video capture software is all third party software. Also the game edits that people are getting rapped on the knuckles for are changing gameplay elements. Like giving yourself unlimited souls or adding item stacks you didn't get by playing. In other words anything you can do that gives yourself an advantage or the ability to grief other players. The soft bans are ALWAYS triggered from people that edit their save files or have another program running that hooks in to the game process somewhere. From Software has always had this same type of system.
The fix for Surround/Eyefinity and 21:9 only edit a single variable in the .exe itself. So it isn't a separate program running or doing anything that modifies the gameplay in any way. The second change in the game XML settings file isn't doing anything the game itself can't do from inside the options menu. Making the .xml file read only doesn't affect anything either, it simply stops the settings from changing back to Fullscreen instead of WINDOW when you hit Alt+Enter to go into Fullscreen. Otherwise every time you close the game you would have to go back to windowed first. You are allowed to edit resolution and graphics settings manually without repercussions. The game actually isn't capable of knowing it was ever touched, that isn't something it looks at. Even if any of the syntax or settings are wrong it will just overwrite anything that isn't a real value, and either erase or ignore any other lines it doesn't recognize.
tldr: this won't trigger a soft ban.
One last thing. The last two games in the series actually did have fixes that were from a third party program. They didn't cause bans either, From Software doesn't check or flag changes to the renderer itself. It also doesn't appear to even scan for changes in the memory at all. Many people here, myself included, have played hundreds of hours of each game DS1,DS2, and now DS3. In all these years there hasn't ever been someone who was banned from any version of the fixes we've had in any version or patch of the games.
Matter of fact I don't think I've ever seen a legitimate case of someone getting banned when using the two programs we all use for other games either. Those two programs being Flawless Widescreen, and Widecreen Fixer. Both of which are made from users from this forum. I hope this helps in some way.
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