"The effect will be somewhat limited because Unreal only sends coordinates of other players that are either visible, almost visible, or were visible sometime in the past several seconds. For example, Sweeney explains how the cheat would impact Unreal games: Quite accidentally, this optimisation also prevents the ASUS cheat from working as well as it otherwise might have. One common optimisation in online games is that players and items which are hidden behind scenery are ignored, so there is less for the player's computer to draw and less data for the server to send, improving both frame-rates and network efficiency. In reality, it is not technically possible to achieve the "see through walls" cheat, at least not to the extent that some people believe. "Probably the best way to deal with this is to ask gamers all over the world to email Asus explaining why their cheat-drivers ruin everyone's online gaming experience, write negative articles about how Asus is anti-gaming, and criticise whatever idiotic marketing guy at Asus though this was a good idea." Hype and hysteriaĪlthough the ASUS cheat drivers do give reason for concern, their potential impact has been exaggerated by some members of the gaming community. Instead, Sweeney suggests, the solution should come in the traditional form of complaints and protests from disgruntled players. Especially with a situation like this, where the cheating is a particular driver version from a particular manufacturer using an NVIDIA chipset - it would be hard to ban just the cheaters without impacting innocent players who happen to have the same or similar hardware." So is an engine-level solution the way to go? Tim Sweeney answers: "That's difficult, because Microsoft (rightly) goes to great lengths to abstract Windows away from particular pieces of hardware. Players must install a small monitoring program and connect to a PunkBuster-enabled server, but the system is entirely voluntary so until it becomes standard, cheating players can simply connect to a normal server. PunkBuster can detect the ASUS drivers and ban players who are using them, but currently the software only works with one game, Half-Life, and its various add-ons such as Team Fortress and Counter-Strike.
It is possible to prevent most cheating in online games, either by implementing security checks or fixing exploitable bugs, but there is little that can be done to prevent the use of driver-level cheats. They seem bent on harming the honest gamers in the online communities with no thought about anything except their own sales figures. "We tried to get Asus to respond by helping us stop the use of the cheat drivers months ago and never received a response from them.
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