Battledield now throwing an error because Valorant is already sitting in kernel memory. Time to buy your EA Battlefield PC but don’t forget your Valorant PC

  • addie@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    4 days ago

    Actually makes it easier to write aimbots and triggerbots, since you’ll have the video feed and can respond with the right inputs. Skips the step where you’ve got to film the monitor on the machine that’s ‘playing’ the game, which is protected by the HDCP between the PC and the screen.

    • Bilb!@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      4 days ago

      Good point. Guess it’s hopeless?

      To be honest I haven’t thought about this much because playing online games with strangers is not something I enjoy in the first place. I’m sure others have good ideas, though.

      • addie@feddit.uk
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        14
        ·
        4 days ago

        Seeking a technical solution to a non-technical problem. Rather than having one set of company-hosted servers that they then struggle to police, just let everyone host their own, and they can be responsible for banning anyone that doesn’t follow the community rules.

        • ulterno@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          3 days ago

          But then that lets people socialize using the game without the company being able to harvest their data.

        • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          3 days ago

          Yeah I wish we could go back to a model like that, the way PC gaming used to be. The sticking point would be battle pass progression, as mush as I hate it and an FPS is pretty much doa without it, although Hell Let Loose allows for rank progression while playing on clan-rented servers so it should work in theory.

    • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      3 days ago

      The types of cheats that anti cheat in kernel space are trying to detect don’t view the video feed as such. They hook the process directly to read the memory, and the chest developer has reverse engineered the game binary to find out what variables correspond to things like opposing players, then using that information they draw stuff like wall hacks on the screen.

      But yeah I guess an fps developer could move to a GeForce now type of model to eliminate cheats like that, but then no one would play that fps because of the input lag issues.