RO2 Anti-cheat

[Chrissd21]

Yay for no admins and even more processes running in the background!

One of those people who has hell with pnkbstr. The login servers in BF:BC2 anyway, getting dropped from those for no reason other than the servers suck is hell in a shooter.

But, onto the important questions. Those being, will any of the programs interfere with each other? Also, what is system performance like when they're running? Keeping in mind that all three of them work by scanning the list of current processes and comparing it to a blacklist. Useless for new hacks, but good for the old script kiddies.
So I think the main question is, is it possible for all three of them to be running at the same time, and what will happen if they are.

Originally Posted by dgeesi0

all hacks cause ping spikes ! why no one has worked on this is beyond me.

Well Punkbuster causes lag spikes for me. In BF:BC2 it was even worse. EA login servers would do a check to see if I was still connected, which would cause a ping spike, which would drop EA login servers, which would trigger punkbuster for "packet interruption" or some such and drop me from the game.

If I'd actually been permanently banned for that.. Well, you can imagine what kind of email the companies would be receiving. Fortunately I think they can too. Lag spikes != hacking. Could just be badly designed netcode, someone could start up a radio and interfere with a wireless connection, a login server could do a check, Windows UAC could trigger. If you're running an antivirus it might see an odd file, scheduled defrag might start up. Firewall could get a false positive that ddos attack is happening and momentarily shut you down.

All sorts of things can go wrong which can cause a ping spike. Punkbuster will kick you for that, but it won't ban you.