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Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday April 15, 2023 @10:57AM (#35581186)
Notably, these kernel drivers work because cheat makers are not able to create their own kernel drivers. Microsoft requires drivers to be code signed, and Microsoft will not code sign cheating software.

Unfortunately, that also means you and I can't run our own driver code either, on our own purchased machines. I find this really crappy for reasons outside of anti-cheat. For example, I can't install modified nVidia drivers.

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Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by motoxpro on Saturday April 15, 2023 @11:50AM (#35581730)
The people who want to tinker with unsigned drivers is many orders of magnitude smaller than the people who would accidentally install a malicious driver and ruin their PC.

They had to make a choice for UX sake, they chose the bigger group of people and are happy to let the tinkers go to Linux

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Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by ChoGGi on Saturday April 15, 2023 @12:53PM (#35582323)
I thought you could boot into test mode to run unsigned drivers (or did they get rid of that?).
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Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday April 15, 2023 @01:37PM (#35582705)
You can temporarily but it needs to be manually re-enabled again before every single boot. Also kernel anticheats will detect that test-signing is enabled and refuse to let you play.
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Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by mschuster91 on Saturday April 15, 2023 @01:11PM (#35582499)
You can but it's annoying and complex, and anticheats can detect it.
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