• galaxy_nova@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      It’s vanguard so don’t think that works. It’s essentially malware but I keep basically nothing of relevance on my windows side so I’m generally not super concerned. I basically just treat the entirety of windows as a security hole.

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          12 days ago

          That sounds VERY unlikely. I’m gonna need a source for that (with vanguard) or I’m calling bullshit

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              11 days ago

              EAC is notoriously less invasive than vanguard. The repo you linked doesn’t even have a fraction of what you’d need to hide from vanguard.

              There are SO many things to hide. In theory it sounds possible, in practice just not.

              To name a few, you’d have to hide:

              • cpu jitter/latency
              • interrupt behavior
              • page table behavior
              • msr access
              • cache invalidation patterns
              • IOMMU
              • PCIe inconsistencies
              • boot sequence
              • driver timing
              • CPUID

              And so much more. It’s almost impossibly hard to hide all that. Even if you could, a tiny mistake at one point or a stealth update and you’re banned.

              In comparison, avoiding vanguard and cheating on a legit windows machine is trivial. DMA cards are expensive but impossible to detect. DP/HDMI + mouse hooks are another impossible to detect option.

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                  11 days ago

                  Well they’re still able to block 99% of the “script kiddies” that just download a cheat to feel better about themselves. I feel like besides at the top 0.01%, this is by far the largest portion of cheaters.