Microsoft to Roll-out Anti-cheating Tech with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

[btarunr]

With its upcoming "Fall Creators Update" for Windows 10, Microsoft is preparing to roll out its own game anti-cheating platform, under two new technologies, TruePlay and Game Monitor. TruePlay provides a "new set of tools to combat cheating within their PC games," according to Microsoft. This is similar to VAC (Valve Anti-Cheating). From the looks of it, the TruePlay API is limited to games built for the UWP (Universal Windows Platform), such as recent additions to the Forza franchise. Game Monitor is another side of this coin. When enabled, the operating system shares system information with games to weed out cheating tools such as aimbots. Enabling it could soon become a requirement of certain online multiplayer games.

Games with TruePlay run in a "protected" (read: sandboxed) process, which mitigates a class of common cheating tools, as the game's real PID is never exposed to other processes. A separate Windows process will be on constant lookout for behaviors and manipulations that are common in cheating scenarios. Data (read: telemetry) of this process will be shared with game developers after determining that cheating could have occurred. The "Fall Creators Update" for Windows 10 is likely to be released before December.



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[RejZoR]

Since I really don't like anything (especially games) UWP, except few video apps, I don't think this will be of much benefit.

 

[Melvis]

Who uses the Windows game store (UWP) anyway? its horribly expensive.

 

[dj-electric]

OOH, a monitoring software from microsoft. sounds fun. Better install it on my wintor 10 OS

 

[BorgOvermind]

Gaming PCs will end-up with so much anti-cheating and DRM junk you won't be able to edit a text file anymore.

Who uses the Windows game store (UWP) anyway? its horribly expensive.

There is no store, there's only steam

 

[Manu_PT]

Gaming PCs will end-up with so much anti-cheating and DRM junk you won't be able to edit a text file anymore.



There is no store, there's only steam

So true man, is disgusting really, I already have to disable dozens of services on W10 for maximum performance in games

 

[AsRock]

Next lag due to crappy anti cheat crap, another reason to not buy from the windows store, well done MS.

 

[Prince Valiant]

Stuff like this never stops the most determined of online cheating scuzz. All it does is cause trouble for folks that only cheat for fun and wouldn't cheat in MP.

Gaming PCs will end-up with so much anti-cheating and DRM junk you won't be able to edit a text file anymore.

There is no store, there's only steam

Sadly true for the most part.

Next lag due to crappy anti cheat crap, another reason to not buy from the windows store, well done MS.

I don't think it matters how they run it. Valve has it's tentacles so tightly wrapped around the Steam userbase that most of them will brush off the same faults in Steam as the ones they go ape about in other platforms.

 

[xorbe]

It's morphing from OS to gaming platform.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

It's morphing from OS to gaming platform.

Windows was a gaming platform decades ago.

If this Anti-cheating tech is only working with M$ made games from their game store then its a waste of time

 

[MrGenius]

The "Fall Creators Update" for Windows 10 is likely to be released before December.

Yep. Officially tomorrow(10/17) in fact.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Since I really don't like anything (especially games) UWP, except few video apps, I don't think this will be of much benefit.

Not to mention that like everything else MS does, it'll be cracked within hours, if not days, of release. When will they learn that they can not beat hackers/crackers?

Who uses the Windows game store (UWP) anyway? its horribly expensive.

Right? The Windows/Microsoft Store is crap. No one I know uses it or ever has. And no one wants to. Windows is not a mobile platform. And no one wants it to be.

Gaming PCs will end-up with so much anti-cheating and DRM junk you won't be able to edit a text file anymore.

Perish the thought..

There is no store, there's only steam

Steam what?

 

[GoldenX]

Great, more bloat...

 

[mab1376]

well that sucks, i like to use mods on tons of games and trainers on a second play through for fun.

 

[StrayKAT]

Who uses the Windows game store (UWP) anyway? its horribly expensive.

Sometimes it's got exclusives. Forza and Gears of War, for one. edit: For two, rather

 

[R-T-B]

Windows was a gaming platform decades ago.

If this Anti-cheating tech is only working with M$ made games from their game store then its a waste of time

Yeah, well at least they were nice enough to provide an "off" switch. I think I'll be using it.

 

[xorbe]

well that sucks, i like to use mods on tons of games and trainers on a second play through for fun.

Borderlands + Willow save editor = tons of fun