Lost Ark

Lost Ark

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Skip Intro Videos/Seizure Warning
By wuddih
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Introduction
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This guide will explain how to skip or better, not to see the Intro Videos and Seizure Warning by making the game believe that they simply do not exist. This will save you a bit of time booting up the game.

Note: It will not shorten the general long boot up time of the game that is caused by a poor implementation of Easy Anti Cheat.

This guide requires basic knowledge of how to handle files in your operating systems file explorer. If you do not feel comfortable with that task, do not do it.
How to find the relevant game files
  • Right-click Lost Ark in your Steam Library.
  • Click Manage.
  • Click Browse local files.
  • A File Explorer will open.
  • Open folder EFGame.
  • Open folder Movies.
What to do in there?
You only need to care about a single file.
At the moment this file is named:
F3HGM8N1Q7X8GHG31BTFXEF.<language>.ipk

<language> can be English, French, German or Spanish
It's filesize is roughly 3 to 5 MB.

Delete the file or alter the filename of the interface language that you are using to play Lost Ark.
I personally would just add .bak to the end of the entire filename.
Example: F3HGM8N1Q7X8GHG31BTFXEF.English.ipk.bak
It worked and then it didn't
Reasons for this to stop working:
  • The game got an update which also updated this file or a new file doing the job.
  • You reinstalled the game.
  • You verified the game files via Steam (will redownload missing files).

To get it working again repeat steps above. The filename might have changed though, so you either have to find the new file yourself or wait until I will update the guide accordingly.
Sources
Many. You can pretty much find how to do this since before the western release of the game. I looked for it on Steam and could not find it, hence this guide exists now.
3 Comments
Penguin 28 Apr @ 11:21am 
Oh my god, are you a genie in a bottle?
Nemesis 10 Apr @ 10:38pm 
Well this is gonna save me a shitton of time, thank you
Techhead7890 16 Oct, 2024 @ 7:43pm 
It seemed to work, awesome thanks!