Can a saturation booster get me banned in DayZ?

[Buttshnizzle]

We all know that DayZ is somewhat bland... Color wise at least. I downloaded a saturation boost originally for CSGO. I had the option to keep it on all the time. I thought to myself "This would look great in DayZ." So I loaded up DayZ and got in a server. The game looks amazing. I've been playing with it for a few days now and I havent gotten banned or anything. Is there still a chance I could get banned? The saturation boost is called VibranceGUI

[Nina]

Yes, no, maybe. You'll always be using it on your own risk.

VAC (which DayZ also uses) itself is very unpredictable and I'm surprised you haven't been VAC banned from CS:GO for doing that. All of those color-adjusting programs can be considered hooks, and can work in a very similar way to some hacks, to the point where they could be almost indistinguishable.

[Buttshnizzle]

Originally posted by Nina:

Yes, no, maybe. You'll always be using it on your own risk.

VAC (which DayZ also uses) itself is very unpredictable and I'm surprised you haven't been VAC banned from CS:GO for doing that. All of those color-adjusting programs can be considered hooks, and can work in a very similar way to some hacks, to the point where they could be almost indistinguishable.

Okay. I first downloaded it from a reliable youtuber who says hes been using it for csgo and hasnt gotten banned. On the other hand, The creator of the saturation booster said, and I quote

"I'm the developer of vibranceGUI. I just want to clear one thing here: There is absolutely no way that vibranceGUI should trigger a VAC ban. It does not interact with CS:GO at all.

it does not load a dll into the game, actually it does not load anything into the game
it does not read the process memory
it does not write the process memory
it does not alter game files
All it does, is to check if CS:GO is running with FindWindow and whether it is running in foreground with GetForegroundWindow. That's basically it when it comes to process interop, the rest is done with the NVIDIA/AMD API. The change of colors is done through utilizing the APIs of the attached graphics card driver. CS:GO does not even know the colors are changed, they do not care either because digital vibrance/saturation is a legitimate setting people have been using for years.

VAC relies on signature scanning when trying to determine if a process is a hack. This means they take hashes of chunks of the process memory or from the file system to check them back on their server for known cheats. When the sent signatures do not match any signatures in their database for known hacks, there is a chance that the file will be manually analyzed. Due to the fact that VAC is only effective against so called "public hacks" - and that vibranceGUI has thousands of users (which I'm really happy about btw), I think it's safe to say that you can be sure vibranceGUI has already been manually analyzed and been found legitimate.

You may ask yourself "why are you so sure about it?". Well, the program has been around since over one and a half year now, has tons of users and has never been banned for. That's it, really. Public Hacks are shortlived as VAC is effective against programs that are used by many people over a short period of time. These hacks are then analyzed and added to the hack database on Valves server. Anyone that runs these public hacks will then be banned sooner or later in a VAC banwave."

That is what he said when someone asked if they could get banned in CSGO... I appreciate your help, tell me what you think after reading this. Thank you

[Nina]

Originally posted by Buttshnizzle:

That is what he said when someone asked if they could get banned in CSGO... I appreciate your help, tell me what you think after reading this. Thank you

If that's the case then it's (probably) fine. I still would not trust it myself (as I've been burned once already). The same may or may not apply to BattlEye, but again; You'll always be using it on your own risk.

[[IFC]Mjollnir]

Well...you always could write an e-mail to BE, asking if they know the program and if it's safe to keep it running while playing DayZ...at least that's what I would do...