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There are cheats that give you more information than you should have. These typically require access to the game process's memory space.

If you're cheating with a video capture card, this likely means you're allowing a program to rewrite your inputs to more accurately target player models. You will likely be banned if you do this on the same machine via screen capture. A video capture card can process the information on a separate computer, e.g. location of enemies by searching for specific colours, then write into a virtual USB mouse on the gaming rig to keep the player's crosshair on the enemy model. I'm not sure about specifics, but this kind of cheat is almost undetectable; it is only really mitigated by the cost and effort involved to do it.

Players can add additional mitigations on top of this, like only activating aim assist while the shoot button is pressed, to make it entirely undetectable.




Video capture cards can be countered with encrypted video from GPU to monitor. That's why you can't screencap 4k Disney+ movies.


Encrypted monitors can be countered by a high quality video camera mounted on a tripod behind your chair or on a wall or ceiling

Expensive, yes, but at that point you're already spending real money on a second computer with a GPU to do computer vision on the game video stream, so...


HDFury devices allow stripping of HDCP 2.2, and vast majority of users currently don't have HDCP 2.3 compatible monitors/TVs, so that's not an option yet.


I don't know if you need something as expensive as an HDFury. I know most $30 "4K upscalers" have a HDCP stripper built in.

edit: to further your point, though, I think most people's gaming monitors don't support HDCP _at all_. [citation needed]




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