There’s a bunch of game studios that think they need to use ring zero to prevent cheaters. And basically the user is just told ‘trust me bro’ that they’re not going to mess up your system.
I personally refuse to play any game that is ring zero. And this big outage is a clear example as to why it’s a bad idea to give random devs unlimited access to your machine.
I’m curious what would he the definition of Ring 0 anti-cheat
There’s a bunch of game studios that think they need to use ring zero to prevent cheaters. And basically the user is just told ‘trust me bro’ that they’re not going to mess up your system.
https://youtu.be/LY2hG-_asKU?si=R8UAcZ4fQAR8Mlic
Riot games just recently added it I believe.
I personally refuse to play any game that is ring zero. And this big outage is a clear example as to why it’s a bad idea to give random devs unlimited access to your machine.
Rito adding Vanguard to LoL was the reason why I finally deleted the game, although I moved to DOTA after the butterfly incident
Anti-cheat software, like anti-virus software, tens to work ar ring-0.
Here’s a decent definition: https://levvvel.com/games-with-kernel-level-anti-cheat-software/
As I understand, on Windows, this is implemented by writing a kernel-mode device driver. On Linux, you’d need to load a kernel module.