Asus releases 'Cheat' video drivers - the B@$^*%DS!!

[az]

Ah and Tarnar: The reason for software like punkbuster is NOT to exstinguish cheating, because that will never be accomplished as long as there are humans playing. Punkbuster just tries to MINIMIZE cheating by making it HARDER to cheat (and most cheaters cheat because they are too lazy to practise, so that's a good method IMHO).

Great news about the ASUS drivers

AZ

[cjolley]

Wombat,
Cheat prevention based on a self reporting client is trivial to defeat.
The hacked client only needs a copy of the original available to read from.
Same for driver version reporting, etc.
The sad part is that most of the people who write the hacks probibly do it because it is interesting programming, not to actualy cheat.
Unfortunatly, it's the online gaming comunity that pays the price for the hackers hobby.
In my younger days, I cracked a game (Jepardy) that I never played even a single time past the intro screen. The CP system was encryped, that was the only reason I even looked at it.
The same thing will happen constantly as new anti-cheat methods are developed.
The best answer is to make sure that cheating is never thought of as acceptable.
I play quakeworld on-line a lot. There are a lot of new players who don't even know the game can be played without cheating.
chuck


[This message has been edited by cjolley (edited 19 May 2001).]

[Guru]

Found this on www.tweak3d.net

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Asus has vowed to remove the 'see-through' features of their drivers from now on. If you remember way back when these were first released, people were mad. Asus brought them back not that long ago and people got mad again, so they're goners. Here's what Asus had to say:
Dear sir, To respect the preferences of the majority of our customers and users around the world, ASUS will disable “see-through” capability in all future graphics drivers. Although ASUS did not officially release the “see-through” feature in the current 11.01, 12.00 and 12.10 drivers, this feature-enhancing codes were enabled by non-ASUS programmers and posted on various unauthorized websites.

ASUS recognizes that these features may offer unfair competitive advantages for some users and will take actions to curtail the use of these drivers. All codes related to these features will be removed in all future versions (Version 12.40 and up) to prevent any further tampering that may enable “see-through”. ASUS will also provide a way for web hosts to detect and disable “see-through” functionality.
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[cjolley]

This will also save ASUS bandwidth because the dedicated cheaters will stop downloading new drivers.
chuck

[Brian R.]

Here's a post from Banko in the CSHP forums:
"i have emailed Asus and here a fix so server admins can run it

How to Detect and Disable “See-through” Mode This method of detection is intended for web hosts of online games.
Web hosts should enumerate all keys (0000, 0001, etc.) under
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servi ces\Class\Display" and do the following patches.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Class\Display\XXXX\UI]
"DisableD3dWireframe"=dword:00000001
"DisableOglWireframe"=dword:00000001
"DisableOglTransparent"=dword:00000001
We respect the opinions of all our customers and thank you for bringing this issue to our attention.

Best Regards,
Kent Chien
Multimedia Business Dept.
Sales & Marketing Division
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC."

[Liquid Snake]

Hey Brian R! I haven't seen you around the forums lately, where've you been?

[Brian R.]

HI - Mostly minding my server and working on improvements. Playing sometimes too. Trying to build a Linux router. Trying my patience.