I've checked the solutions I could find on this site about this problem and nothing has worked. I've reinstalled multiple times, my drivers are updated, I have the latest version of directx, I've tried changing my screen resolution, I've run setup.exe. What else can I do? When I go to download, is "Maplestory Setup" the only thing I have to download? I thought I remembered downloading more than that on my other computer, but that's the only thing on the download page now.
Can't say I know what causes the problem, I can give some things to try at least. Try changing compatibility. Right click the client > properties > compatibility tab > choose run in compatibility for > select windows 98/Windows ME The client is the mapleroyals.exe Try removing/lowering hardware acceleration. Are you using a monitor, tv laptop? Do you use hdmi, vga etc..? Check your computer for viruses, the MapleRoyals client will show up as a virus but that can be ignored.
ok, all I had to do was check "run this program in compatibility mode for" and choose windows 8. thanks! I did find that solution in another thread too, but I guess I didn't read it properly the first time