diff --git a/Dalamud/Game/Internal/Gui/ChatGui.cs b/Dalamud/Game/Internal/Gui/ChatGui.cs
index f886f60b9..d3b701bf4 100644
--- a/Dalamud/Game/Internal/Gui/ChatGui.cs
+++ b/Dalamud/Game/Internal/Gui/ChatGui.cs
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ namespace Dalamud.Game.Internal.Gui {
                 Log.Debug($"HandlePrintMessageDetour {manager} - [{chattype}] [{BitConverter.ToString(message.RawData).Replace("-", " ")}] {message} from {senderName}");
                 // Log.Debug($"Got message bytes {BitConverter.ToString(messageBytes.Bytes).Replace("-", " ")}");
 
-                var originalMessage = message.RawData.Clone();
+                var originalMessageData = (byte[]) message.RawData.Clone();
 
                 // Call events
                 var isHandled = false;
@@ -100,10 +100,10 @@ namespace Dalamud.Game.Internal.Gui {
                 var messagePtr = pMessage;
                 OwnedStdString allocatedString = null;  
 
-                if (originalMessage != message.RawData) {
+                if (!FastByteArrayCompare(originalMessageData, message.RawData)) {
                     allocatedString = this.dalamud.Framework.Libc.NewString(message.RawData);
                     Log.Debug(
-                        $"HandlePrintMessageDetour String modified: {originalMessage}({messagePtr}) -> {message}({allocatedString.Address})");
+                        $"HandlePrintMessageDetour String modified: {originalMessageData}({messagePtr}) -> {message}({allocatedString.Address})");
                     messagePtr = allocatedString.Address;
                 }
 
@@ -123,6 +123,28 @@ namespace Dalamud.Game.Internal.Gui {
             return retVal;
         }
 
+        // Copyright (c) 2008-2013 Hafthor Stefansson
+        // Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license
+        // Ref: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+        // https://stackoverflow.com/a/8808245
+        static unsafe bool FastByteArrayCompare(byte[] a1, byte[] a2)
+        {
+            if (a1 == a2) return true;
+            if (a1 == null || a2 == null || a1.Length != a2.Length)
+                return false;
+            fixed (byte* p1 = a1, p2 = a2)
+            {
+                byte* x1 = p1, x2 = p2;
+                int l = a1.Length;
+                for (int i = 0; i < l / 8; i++, x1 += 8, x2 += 8)
+                    if (*((long*)x1) != *((long*)x2)) return false;
+                if ((l & 4) != 0) { if (*((int*)x1) != *((int*)x2)) return false; x1 += 4; x2 += 4; }
+                if ((l & 2) != 0) { if (*((short*)x1) != *((short*)x2)) return false; x1 += 2; x2 += 2; }
+                if ((l & 1) != 0) if (*((byte*)x1) != *((byte*)x2)) return false;
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         ///     Queue a chat message. While method is named as PrintChat, it only add a entry to the queue,
         ///     later to be processed when UpdateQueue() is called.
diff --git a/Dalamud/Game/Internal/Gui/IconReplacer.cs b/Dalamud/Game/Internal/Gui/IconReplacer.cs
index 4601862fb..8beb46653 100644
--- a/Dalamud/Game/Internal/Gui/IconReplacer.cs
+++ b/Dalamud/Game/Internal/Gui/IconReplacer.cs
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ namespace Dalamud.Game.Internal.Gui {
         public void Enable() {
             this.iconHook.Enable();
             this.checkerHook.Enable();
+            Log.Verbose("IconReplacer hooked");
         }
 
         public void Dispose() {