Any PC Gamers Around?

[weederr33]

People are losing their shit about EA WRC because there is a new patch coming that uses a kernel-level anti cheat. Seems like this is the new standard. While I'm big into PC gaming, I honestly have little knowledge about anti-cheats and which are good and bad. I have a basic understanding of what kernel level means, but outside the people screaming about how dangerous it is, it seems there are far more games that have it than I realized. Not sure whether to panic, be cautious, or outright abandon all games that have it. But it seems to be a developing trend I'm noticing with games these days. Thoughts?

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by weederr33

People are losing their shit about EA WRC because there is a new patch coming that uses a kernel-level anti cheat.

It's an escalating war. kernel-level programs basically run at the same level as the OS kernel so they have basically unfettered access to hardware and software to monitor it. It's not foolproof however.

The persons developing cheats can get around it by using the hypervisor in the computer, basically running the game in a virtual machine that they then have near full control over and can feed back to the anti-cheat software any answer they think it expects.

I rarely play online games and even then only with "known persons" (my family) so it's not a large concern for me.