Cheat Engine

[Flynn]

Hello, to start off, I'm pretty clueless about any of this and only use Cheat Engine to hack Single Player/Offline Games and really only basic stuff like editing Exact Values or Float Values.

My question is, why does Cheat Engine run drivers? I've had multiple problems where I've used Cheat Engine on one game and days later get kicked from online games because the anti cheat detected the the dbk64.sys file running in the background when I haven't used Cheat Engine at all.

I ended up just removing those files and Cheat Engine runs fine nonetheless.
At least for my basic needs it does.

So what is the point of the drivers? Are they only important for hacking online games?

[Dark Byte]

They are needed for some tools like ultimap for tracing code execution paths.

Also the driver is handy for situations where certain protections block access , and for some virtual machines like android emulators, where there is no process, but you can do a physical memory scan

and some games where windows debug and veh debug don't work the kernel debug, or dbvm debug do work

Also, the driver doesn't load out of it's own. You must have loaded it manually by ticking an option that uses it (And you can always unload the driver by running the kernelmodule unloader)