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It ultimately boils down to a cat and mouse game. What you end up with are extremely intrusive anticheat tools that do all sorts of nasty Trojan-like things; fo
by yarou 10y ago
It ultimately boils down to a cat and mouse game. What you end up with are extremely intrusive anticheat tools that do all sorts of nasty Trojan-like things; for example, injecting DLLs into a player's host machine to determine if they have modified the memory of the game.
The anticheat process itself will hide and run in kernelmode. I don't know about you, but I don't feel terribly comfortable having a closed source binary running in ring0.
- drivingmenuts 10y agoI'm more comfortable with an anti-cheat blob running in ring0 than I am game-mod code running in any ring. But, I run on a machine that was purpose-built for running games and if it all goes to hell, I just wipe and reload. All the games are from Steam, so they're easy to get back on there (and I only play a handful of those, so ...).
- JJJollyjim 10y agoNor do I, though it should be noted that most of the games with intrusive anti-cheat are Windows-only so the entire kernel is already closed-source blobs…