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The unfortunate reality is that, depending on your personal preferences, "most modern games" require such a ring 0 anti-cheat. Any game that has a matchmaking mode with a competitive option requires a rootkit.

As an aside, I recently found Riot Games' Vanguard installed on my Linux ESP partition... after having installed the game on my windows partition. It rooted every OS it could find mounted. Incredible.



Modern games are not just shooting stuff in competitive mode.

There exist a gazillion of other games too, without anti-cheat.


GP said "depending on your personal preferences" and clearly didn't imply all "modern games" are competitive shooters.


Then depending on your personal preferences, all modern games are farming simulators.


How did you find out that you had a rootkit?




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