If you’re looking for specific instructions on how to ensure that these problematic services are closed, follow the steps below:
Several affected users have reported that once they closed these processes down via Task Manager and restarted the game, the Error code 4049 no longer appeared when they launched Blade and Soul. If this scenario is applicable, you should be able to fix the issue by using Task Manager to ensure that the following processes are completely closed before launching Blade and Soul once again: In this case, when you try to launch the game once again you’ll get this error as the game doesn’t expect certain game dependencies to be already opened. Now that you are familiar with every potential fix that might be triggering the Error code 4049, here’s a list of methods that other affected users have successfully used to get to the bottom of this issue: Method 1: Closing Problematic ServicesĪs it turns out, one of the most common scenarios that might trigger this error Error code 4049 is when you close the game, but some game processes are left behind running long after the main instance of the game is closed. IN this case, you should be able to resolve the conflict by disabling the security suite while running the game or by uninstalling the problematic 3rd party suite altogether. 3rd party Antivirus or Firewall conflict – GameGuard (the anti-cheat engine used by Blade and Soul) might detect certain 3rd party antivirus or firewalls as memory modifiers that are trying to exploit the game.
If this scenario is applicable, you should be able to fix the issue by updated the main GPU driver + the physics module to the latest version.