Thread: Question re Hardware Breakpoints

I know the thread has been locked and I may misunderstand what is being talked about,
however it seems some guy wants to cheat at a game by changing the memory or something
however it seems to me that such things which would allow your to cheat in a game would
be stored centrally (remotely on a server) rather than on a players computer?
I mean I might like to modify by money balance on a poke site, but I doubt that value
would be held on my own computer!!!
Feel free to lock//delete this if it is inapproopiate.

Originally Posted by esbo

I know the thread has been locked and I may misunderstand what is being talked about,
however it seems some guy wants to cheat at a game by changing the memory or something
however it seems to me that such things which would allow your to cheat in a game would
be stored centrally (remotely on a server) rather than on a players computer?
I mean I might like to modify by money balance on a poke site, but I doubt that value
would be held on my own computer!!!
Feel free to lock//delete this if it is inapproopiate.

Not necessarily. For example, World of Warcraft has a secondary anti cheat util running on the local computer entitled the Warden. This util normally scans your computer about every 15 seconds for any signs of cheating such as modifying the game memory etc. Evidently, there is a lot of code/data that can be modified for cheating purposes on the client.

Originally Posted by esbo

I know the thread has been locked and I may misunderstand what is being talked about,
however it seems some guy wants to cheat at a game by changing the memory or something
however it seems to me that such things which would allow your to cheat in a game would
be stored centrally (remotely on a server) rather than on a players computer?
I mean I might like to modify by money balance on a poke site, but I doubt that value
would be held on my own computer!!!
Feel free to lock//delete this if it is inapproopiate.

With games, it is a trade off. Security is important, but it has to be balanced against responsiveness. If all game data was completely managed by the central server, too much data would have to flow back and forth. So decisions are made where to draw the line between what is managed centrally and what is managed on the client.

In a game, the server typically "trusts" the client during the short term, but constantly monitors the game state to make sure it doesn't change in an unnatural way. For instance, if a client suddenly reports their position far from the previous frame, such that the speed they would have had to travel would be faster than their maximum speed. Etc.

It is always possible to cheat in little ways. Mouse-looker software is one example of this. Ultimately, the real control on cheating is the players themselves. If a server is being perverted by cheaters, legitimate players will just go elsewhere.