• galaxy_nova@lemmy.world
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    23 hours 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 hours ago

      for the record, you can technically hide the vm and bypass those anticheat checks.

      i hear its hard and annoying to setup.

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        4 hours ago

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

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          i found this https://github.com/zhaodice/qemu-anti-detection which supports EAC and others but not vanguard. looks quite easy to use compared to what ive seen before.

          i think ive seen ones that support vanguard before. i think vanguard needs a host kernel patch to mitigate, so it doesn’t detect the vm by measuring timing or something.

          you would have to look around a bit but i’m sure it still exists. as long as it is still our machines, there will be ways around it, else cheaters would not exist. it just requires you to participate in the cat mouse game.

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            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.