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Where do I start well some of you may have seen the increase in players being
banned in Half-Life for invaild drivers not to mention the good old classic
OpenGL.dll. In this new age of tweaks some players are seeking all kinds of
ways to increase their hold over others. In their quest for a faster, smoother
running game many players have fallen fail, finding themselves on name &
shame lists such as AG-Stats.net.
Although most players on these lists are well known cheaters a selected few are
not and have been wrongly named as 'cheaters' & some of them have been
banned from taking part in leagues.
I'm writing this column to try & turn the spot light on this new window of
error in the cheat detection and to warn players not to over tweak or mess
around with graphic drivers/settings without a risk of being labled a cheater
if things go wrong. One such player a old mate of mine 'Dyn4$ty' is one of
those unlucky players who had problems in Steam and after playing around with
his opengl.dll he was picked up as a cheater by a anti-cheat program running on
a server he joined.
I'm not here to defend players after all some of them maybe genuine cheaters
and every case is different, just be warned & think before acting.
OpenGL.dll has labled me as a cheater!
Quote from: -|MOD|-Dyn4$ty-
The reason why your fps can be bad in Steam is because it uses an older
video driver. To solve this bug you need to let Steam know (for every game)
where it can find your newest video driver. This fix also maximizes your fps in
the 'old HL'. This is how it's done:
1. In your windows/system32 folder you can find the opengl driver that comes
with your drivers, being a newer driver. Depending on your type of graphic
card, you can find the following files: Detonator (nvidia) cards : nvoglnt.dll
ATI cards : atioglxx.dll Standard cards : opengl32.dll
2. Now copy this driver file (i.e. if you have an Ati card: atioglxx.dll) to
the 'gldrv' folder of your game. For example: Counter-Strike 1.6:
\Steam\SteamApps\email@email\counter-strike\gldrv\ Day of Defeat:
\Steam\SteamApps\email@email\day of defeat\gldrv\ Half-Life:
\Steam\SteamApps\email@email\half-life\gldrv\ Old Half-Life (CS1.5):
\Half-life\gldrv/
3. Once you put the driver file in the 'gldrv' folder you need to open
'drvmap.txt' which is in the same folder. Now make sure your file looks like
this: Default Default gldrv/atioglxx.dll OpenGL Driver Where atioglxx.dll is
the name of the driver you just copied to the same folder.
4. That's all
And this is for the people that dont have a HLCCL account....I tried to use
the atioglxx.dll and it said that OPENGL wasn't supported in this mode I tried
the opengl32.dll file in my system32 folder as it said and that is what
happened I am on ag-stats for trying to make my fps better.....i guaruntee that
if someone tries it they will be on ag-stats as well...
Quote from:
-=[DnS]=-Peasoup (Admin ag-stats.net)
After following Dynasty's instructions to the letter, I joined the Jim
Flanks House server and was kicked instantly and added to ag-stats cheater list
(since been removed ) for the exact same hack. I had the same situation where
my Det driver, nvogl.dll was not supported so I added the opengl32.dll that I
copied from system32 folder and with one copy/paste... became a hacker. I'll
send this all to Tom and see if there is a way to fix it as far as it being a
false positive (doubt it). In any case I can't see dynasty being subjected to
accusations or ridicule for a false positive. |
Quote from: [KIA]JuGGeR
A shame, as it was fairly well thrashed out in the thread about improving
your framerate using that 'fix'... Seems a few people may be getting banned for
that |
Driver Bug... Wall Haxing without the need of
cheats!
A player calling himself 'MrX' has informed us here at Pro-HL of another driver
bug... known to a few already in the HL world as the Nvidia Win XP bug, joked
about by a few elite players like Vortex, but could this be a real issue in
league & 1v1 matches? You decide.
Quote from: MrX
I run a server and use your Pro-HL database, I just installed the 'nvidia
5600' video card and the 1st time I 'alt tabbed' out of Half-Life back into
Windows XP Pro' when returning to the game I found that I could see through the
walls!!!!!! (screen shot below) . I'm sure it will be an issue untill they come
up with a fix. The drivers are 52.16_win2kxp_english_whql.exe |
That was under 640x480 and using 'Direct 3D' I then went to 540x400 and
'Glide' and it stopped ;)
boot_camp - You can clearly see all the walls are transparent.
Hax or not?
On the subject of hacks & video tweaking how would you class this below? I
would have to say it does cut a very fine line when you talk about
hacking/cheating. Althought this is not seen as a cheat turning down your
graphics in Half-Life does clearly give you an advantage when it comes to
tracking players and I have to say a tweak that goes to far and one I would say
away from.
As you can see the textures on all surfaces has been reduced to just plain
colours this used with his vis models will have a massive advantage over those
of use that play with full high graphics settings.
Again this time a screen shot of the DM map rapidcore. You can see the
detail on the walls & floors has been completely removed. Not only does
this increase the player's HL running speed having less graphics but also
increases his/her ability to hit targets.
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