No more cheating! Windows 10 Fall Creator update would prevent cheating in PC games

Windows 10 Fall Creators update has started rolling out, and the talking point of the update is its feature targeted at stopping PC game cheaters. The anti-cheat feature, called TruePlay, was designed to allow game developers prevent the use of cheats when users are playing games.

The feature was first mentioned back in the summer in the Windows 10 Insider Build, and this is how the TruePlay works: the feature works in the background, monitoring all game sessions on a computer running Windows 10 Fall Creator update. And When a gamer tries to cheat, the feature will alert the game developer.

However, the TruePlay feature is only able to monitor game cheat when the game is being played in online mode (i.e. when players are connected in multiplayer mode online).

Microsoft understands that this might lead to privacy worry as this feature monitors gamers, so, to clear the privacy concern, the OS maker stated in a blog post that, “To ensure and protect customer privacy while preventing false positives, these data are only shared with developers after processing has determined cheating is likely to have occurred.”

Also, gamers can turn off the feature, but the downside is that a game that requires TruePlay wouldn’t run when the feature is off. By default, the feature is off, and at the moment, it appears no developer is currently using the feature.

So if you cheat in PC games, you might be caught in the future when developers start deploying TruePlay.