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Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Now if only they could more clearly communicate when games are playable offline.

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[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

They can prevent you from running cheats that other anti-cheats can't detect. For instance, they could modify the value in memory so that your calculated hash always succeeds even when it's modified. This doesn't stop cheating though; it just means cheaters have to use cheat hardware that exists at a layer that even kernel anti-cheat can't detect.