Anti-cheat engines are now requiring users to have Secure Boot and a fTPM enabled in order to play online multiplayer games. Will this decrease the amount of cheating, or is it a futile attempt at curbing an ever-growing problem?

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35893414

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Anti-cheat engines are now requiring users to have Secure Boot and a fTPM enabled in order to play online multiplayer games. Will this decrease the amount of cheating, or is it a futile attempt at curbing an ever-growing problem?

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    15 hours ago

    Great article.

    Probably a dumb question, but my mobo has an option in the setup utility to “enroll hash” and it seems to let me pick an .efi executable.

    Can I just use that to sign any bootloader (or efi executable for that matter) I want, e.g. HackBGRT, GRUB2, and if so, would that allow me to play Battlefield 6, or would the other features like TPM attestated logs indicate the chain loading and flag me for a ban (or simply not let me launch the game) ?

    • deur@feddit.nlEnglish
      5·
      14 hours ago

      No, Windows anti-cheats will check specifically for Microsoft’s keys in use.