Jason "DarkReaper" Rodzik who helped organize the
No Cheating Drivers Petition
forwards an email that was issued by ASUS regarding the future of the cheating
drivers, along with information for server operators on how to combat them:
Dear
sir,
Thanks for your kindly reminding! To respect the preferences of the majority of
our customers and users around the world, ASUS will disable “see-through”
capability in all future graphics drivers. Although ASUS did not officially
release the “see-through” feature in the current 11.01, 12.00 and 12.10
drivers, this feature-enhancing codes were enabled by non-ASUS programmers and
posted on various unauthorized websites.
ASUS recognizes that these features may offer unfair competitive advantages for
some users and will take actions to curtail the use of these drivers. All codes
related to these features will be removed in all future versions (Version 12.40
and up) to prevent any further tampering that may enable “see-through”. ASUS
will also provide a way for web hosts to detect and disable “see-through”
functionality.
How to Detect and Disable “See-through” Mode
This method of detection is intended for web hosts of online games.
Web hosts should enumerate all keys (0000, 0001, etc.) under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesClassDisplay"
and do the following patches.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesClassDisplayXXXXUI]
"DisableD3dWireframe"=dword:00000001
"DisableOglWireframe"=dword:00000001
"DisableOglTransparent"=dword:00000001
We respect the opinions of all our customers and thank you for bringing this
issue to our attention.
Best Regards,
Kent Chien
Multimedia Business Dept.
Sales & Marketing Division
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.