Glad you got it working. I tried disabling some BIOS stuff, but it didn't work. Come to think of it though.. when this all started, I had to reset my BIOS because when the GameGuard issues started, it caused an issue with even getting my computer to turn on.

GameGuard: "Keeping players safe from enjoying games."

@Nidhogg I'm still having the problem with no known reason. Been sending support updates and the results of my tests and whatever, but I haven't heard back from them in a couple weeks.

I feel like whoever put this on the mission pass kind of missed the purpose of this item. I never played the JP version, but I imagine you could buy these or trade something for them, and they weren't account bound.

The point of them is supposed to be to give presents to your friends. I'm pretty sure they didn't realize what the item did and thought it was just decorative.

@Kevadu That's the same as me almost! I'm starting to think maybe it's a hardware thing. Did you message support? Just so they know that it's an issue worth investigating.

No clue, sorry @Theo27

So today my computer bluescreened while playing (the only time the game works is if I immediately start it up when my OS starts up from being fully shut down) and when it started back up, the game ran totally fine. When I shut down and restarted my computer later, the issue was back again.

@FANtasyStarOnline I checked, it's already turned off.

@FANtasyStarOnline Windows defender is disabled, and disabling the other antivirus softwares didn't do anything either. >.O

Can I disable the core thingy without defender being active?

If it helps, it worked fine immediately after updating PSO2 yesterday, but after running it and restarting my computer, the same issue started occuring again.

@RavenEightyNine Nope.. still happening to me... Haven't heard back from support, and people in the community are clueless about it.