Steam now requires devs to tell players they're playing games with kernel-level anti-cheat tools
Valve is requiring new devs to fill out an anti-cheat disclaimer and retroactively contacting devs behind existing games to do the same
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Valvehas announced that it’s changing anti-cheat disclaimers on Steam and making it mandatory that developers clearly state whether they’re using kernel-level anti-cheat tools.
In the absolute simplest terms, a kernel-level driver is a part of a game’s software that connects directly to your PC to scan for certain data or information that might indicate that you’ve been cheating. Basically, and I meanverybasically, …
