Can you get banned for this in a video game?

[TerrorizedGakon]

Hello,

A lot of anti cheats these days prevent you from launching the game when it detects something like Windhawk

But, for games that don't, can this trigger anti cheat somehow and get you banned?

[m417z]

Hi,

Windhawk excludes popular game paths:
Wiki: Injection targets and critical system processes (well known games)

If you have a custom location for your games, it'd be best to exclude it manually in the Windhawk advanced settings.

Other than that, several users reported that they run games alongside Windhawk just fine, but it's impossible to guarantee that you won't get banned since the games' anti-cheat heuristics aren't published. If you can't risk it, the safest bet is to make sure Windhawk isn't running while gaming.

[m417z]

Yes. The wiki page explains that and the reason for the global injection.

[TerrorizedGakon]

Oh, you answered so quickly I didn't even get to edit my question :D

Is the pattern ?: accepted for user exclusions as well?

[m417z]

Yes, ? is for any single character, * is for any amount of characters.

[TerrorizedGakon]

Sorry for the questions. Just better safe than sorry if these exclusions must work, I don't want to risk a ban. Thanks for all the answers. Very nice program.

[m417z]

You're welcome. Note that it's also possible to limit Windhawk to only inject code into explorer.exe (explained at the bottom of the wiki), but it might make some mods misbehave due to late loading.