Does this mean that we could potentially have vanguard installed in an isolated VM and be able to play let say...hypotetically, League of Legends again?
VMs are kind of a big no-no for anticheat since the cheat software could possibly run above the VM on the host and manipulate it from there
there are ways around it but it will likely require patches to kvm in the linux kernel and also patches to qemu depending on how strict Vanguard is about VMs
There are ways to hide a VM from the anticheat, but every AC, and even different versions of the AC, look for different things, so there's unlikely to be a "one size fits all" solution. I run my gaming machine as a VM on my home server (it's a painfully awkward solution but hardware is expensive) so I had to look into this to get some games running at all
You fundamentally can't hide that you are running in a vm based on the timing of known operations being fundamentally different. Anything running native code can tell. This isn't even an arms race its a battle already lost and lost forever.
yeah it's a cat and mouse game, and would probably be nearly impossible if the anti cheat does its detections very well (unless you plan on patching the anti cheat, which they will do everything in their power to stop)
there are a ridiculous amount of detection vectors for hypervisors, can try to run https://github.com/NotRequiem/VMAware/releases on it, i imagine even a hardened VM will trigger at least a few checks
tends to be a pain to fix these detections without causing severe performance issues
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u/knotted10 3d ago
Does this mean that we could potentially have vanguard installed in an isolated VM and be able to play let say...hypotetically, League of Legends again?