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> DMA cheats

Oh, thanks for mentioning those! I wasn't keeping track of what's going on with "cheats/anti-cheats" and I've just learned those are finally a thing. The concept was obvious since forever, of course, but I've searched for the phrase and realized it had actually materialized and seem to became fairly mainstream (mass production PCI Express cards, neat!) rather than just a theoretical idea or proof-of-concept hardware.

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Check out pcileech. Private hackers are using the FPGA module now. Some anti cheats are proctored these days, they see what you see to eliminate ESP/visual indicators. They’ve only just added mouse/hand aim proctoring (some DMA devices made automatic adjustments to the mouse direction with the help of hacked and custom mice - so you see an enemy left, your hand moves right, the mouse movement is overridden and moves left).

It’s very cool.

Non proctored hacking is totally defeated, the last available bastion is audio hacking (just continuously play beeps where enemies are so even if they’re hiding and not moving, even a proctored session would be able to make use of it).

> Some anti cheats are proctored these days, they see what you see to eliminate ESP/visual indicators

Meh, https://github.com/EngineOwningSoftware/pcileech-webradar

Proctoring means someone watching over your shoulder and surrounding environment. That is, setting up cameras for a side-on view, and behind you - with visibility of your screen(s). Only relevant for tournaments.

That’s what I would’ve taken it to mean, but I’m rather confused with regards to where you might actually run into that?

Every pro-league is going to end up doing this. Either through publicly visible time-delayed streams of the user's room, desk, front-of-user - or through a private entity dedicating a resource to manually review reports from proctored games who will only view suspicious or manually reported encounters/events.

Obviously this doesn't scale, so it'll be limited to paid leagues and tournaments.

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