Intel wants to bust Cheaters with hardware

Intel wants to bust Cheaters with hardware

Friday, 22.06.2007

The chipset-developer Intel wants to implement a cheating-prevention system in their chipset, which is able to detect cheaters in multiplayer games. The usual solutions are parallel running software or software that is integrated in the game (like Punkbuster). Intel goes in a different direction and presents at the Research@Intel Day a hardware based solution against cheaters. The system is built in at the North Bridge of the chipset, which monitors the input impulses from mouse, keyboard or other devices and compares them to the actions in the game. If the input commands differ from the game happenings, it is very likely that the player cheated.

Intel mentioned wall hacks and aim bots as examples, which are mostly known from shooters, but the system might be adaptable for similar cheating-tools from the racing genre, like for example Unlimited-NOS.

It can't be said how reliable such a system will be, because the project is still in development. There won't be such chipsets in the near future, but we keep an eye on it's further progression.

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