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Ocdonotsteal wrote: Sat Sep 19, 2026 6:33 pm Go to the main website page and not the forum, log into there, and click account management under your name. There'll be a tab for it.

Thanks!

It is important that everyone who wants to use this feature understand what it is and is not. This is a white list for one of our upstream protection providers that filters traffic before it reaches our servers. This is NOT a work around for everyone to avoid being affected by the DDoSes.

This ...

I'm sure it has been proposed, but this is at the point where a whitelist would help (cant do it on the website exactly, but everything else, yes). As burdensome as that would be. The burden could be lessened however, by incorporating an IP address updater in the launcher...

That is extreme ...

When the time comes the best available DDoS protection in the world is here (I have researched it extensively):

https://globo.tech/en-ca/ddos-protection-services

I have been with them over seven years. Server moves are a pain, but sometimes (when playing against the big boys) it is just necessary ...

Got it running! :D

The trick is to disable the "dxvk" mod from the launcher, as it requires Vulkan video drivers which many of our video cards do not support at all (see plethora of errors like mine posted above).

I strongly recommend making this mod not enabled by default. So we don't lose ...

... But it looks like you've removed world chat from this client? It is still present on the old client and people are trading there, but the patched game does not allow joining the World channel. Is this an intentional decision or an oversight?

Trading in chat is not the same as the ah at all, it ...

Got it running! :D

The trick is to disable the "dxvk" mod from the launcher, as it requires Vulkan video drivers which many of our video cards do not support at all (see plethora of errors like mine posted above).

I strongly recommend making this mod not enabled by default. So we don't lose ...

https://i.postimg.cc/sxP8nvy2/octowow-wont-run-anymore.png

The beauty of a 20 year old game is that it will run on a 15 year old video card. This patch does not.

OctoWow does not need to use Vulkan drivers which my video card does not have and never will. I investigated Vulkan while developing ...