Nobody likes finding out that they're suddenly going to need an additional piece of software to play a game they had already been playing just the day before and especially not if the software in question is coming from a company known for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ all over the consumer. It's required to launch the game and was added post-launch. As the software ages it's going to become more prone to crashes and bugs. One last thing worth mentioning is that with kernel access it becomes a lot easier for buggy software to crash windows. I'm sure these methods require a lot more work on part of the maintainers for these anti-cheats, but if providing the protection the publishing companies are paying for isn't worth the effort then maybe the game doesn't need protection in the first place ( or alternatively they can find another company who's willing to put in the effort to actually stop cheating ). Warden uses API calls and VAC scans memory for data matching known cheating programs.

What I read about VAC and Warden is that they use less extreme methods of obtaining information that gets sent to their servers. Other anti-cheats are guilty of this, but it has already been demonstrated by the same games that are protected by those anti-cheats that kernel access doesn't stop cheating. Here are what I believe are actual issues with DAC:ģrd party programs should almost never need kernel access. You can go and uninstall the driver with no issues. In the worst case it will cause a blue screen upon launching DOOM Eternal.ĭAC does not prevent you from removing it from your computer. Star Force was notorious for being able to crash windows on startup and potentially force you to reinstall. Running on boot up is the most red a flag can be.

This is how almost every single anti-cheat works.ĭAC does not run on boot up ( as far as I'm aware ). Blizzard's Warden anti cheat has been called spyware despite running in application mode for using APIs to get information about programs running on your computer and send them to Blizzard servers where they're compared to known cheat programs. It sucks and I would rather it not be in the game, but the narrative is snowballing and a lot of people are saying things that as far as I can tell from looking into this and other anti cheats isn't true.ĭAC (probably) isn't spyware and if it was they wouldn't need kernel access to steal information.

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