Games and anti-cheat
What we know about Level Hound and the anti-cheat systems competitive games use, what Level Hound does about each one, and what has not been verified yet.
The short version. Level Hound's audio (the processing chain, voices, soundboard, ducking, recording) runs as a normal Windows app and does not involve any anti-cheat. Only its own virtual audio driver is a kernel driver. Until Microsoft attestation-signs it, that driver needs Windows test mode, and most kernel anti-cheats (Vanguard, Easy Anti-Cheat, BattlEye, FACEIT, EA Javelin, RICOCHET) refuse to run while test mode is on.
Anti-cheat safe mode (Health › Games and anti-cheat) runs Level Hound with no driver in the path: your virtual mic plays into VB-CABLE, the speakers chain captures VB-CABLE A or a real device, and the extra virtual mics use VB-CABLE A/B. Choose Off, Automatic (while a protected game or its anti-cheat runs) or Always.
Honesty note. This list comes from vendor support pages and player reports. None of it has been verified with a real game on real hardware yet; every entry says so until it has been.
If a game won't start because of test mode
- In Level Hound, open Health › Games and anti-cheat and click Uninstall the Level Hound driver until it's attestation-signed (Windows asks for administrator rights). Level Hound switches to VB-CABLE.
- Open Terminal (Admin) and run
bcdedit /set testsigning off(andbcdedit /set nointegritychecks offif you switched integrity checks off before). - Restart Windows. Level Hound never changes your boot settings itself; it only shows you the command.
Anti-cheat systems
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Games we recognise
| Game | Anti-cheat | Status |
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Something not working?
In Level Hound, Health › Games and anti-cheat › Report a game problem copies a plain-text summary (which anti-cheat it found, the driver's signature, test mode, safe mode) and opens a mail to support@levelhound.org. Nothing is uploaded; you decide what to send. The machine-readable list is at /compat/anticheat.json.