Avast and Unity.

[EmoHobo]

For whatever reasons, games that run using Unity, such as Gone Home, do not work with Avast, which I find quite the problem, I don't know if it's well known but I wanted to bring it up.

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Then I guess that means it isn't compatible with Avast then, or it does not compat on your PC.

[EmoHobo]

It's a lot to go into and I couldn't explain it all properly but just google "Avast and Unity" and you will find a tons of issues with Unity Web Player and Avast not playing well together.

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It's a lot to go into and I couldn't explain it all properly but just google "Avast and Unity" and you will find a tons of issues with Unity Web Player and Avast not playing well together.

Okay, good to know. 

[EmoHobo]

Is this a known issue?

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Could you please specify your problem, OS and avast version?

[EmoHobo]

Any game that runs Unity will not launch, it will start but never actually get to the game, just a black screen with a the spinning busy symbol in Windows 7.

My avast version is 2014.9.2018

The issue isn't mine alone, it's a very well known problem with Avast on games that run using Unity.  It's a serious issue that has gone on for over a year and has still not been addressed.

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I can't reproduce it, could you please give me some links to games you tried?
thank you

[EmoHobo]

Gone Home I believe is the biggest offender.

I have disabled Hardware Virtualization and it seems to work fine now, since I don't use any sandbox or screenclear features, is there any real risk with leaving this disabled?

[EmoHobo]

Anyone know?

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There is no risk, if you don't use sandbox.
What kind of video card do you have?
Unfortunately I can't reproduce your problem, it works for me with avast, with both disabled and enabled hw virtualization.

[EmoHobo]

I have a Nvidia Geforce GTX 750, it works just fine with it disabled but the game refuses to boot past a black screen when it's enabled.

[igor]

The hardware virtualization helps other things in avast! as well - e.g. it strengthens the self-defense on 64bit OSes.

[EmoHobo]

Ah, so I should reenable it as soon as I can then?

[EmoHobo]

Ah, so I should reenable it as soon as I can then?

Is it enough of an issue to make it a terrible idea to have it disabled?