BDO also came, and maybe still comes, shipped with malware that monitors your PC,(reply>), @Aaron Garza i have over 3000 hours on bdo. is there a way for me to uninstall it completely without busting out the old windows 10 flash drive?,(reply>), @[ MW ] Black Desert Online uses a Ring 0 Kernel level driver for anti-cheat. It can do anything it wants and you would have no clue.<br>You are putting a lot of faith in BDO to have some poorly maintained code, that can be doing anything, running on your PC.<br>Uninstalling the game also doesn't change this. You would need to reformat just to remove that garbage.<br>It's the same with games like Valorant from Riot Games.<br>It's a lazy way to do anti-cheat and it often doesn't work anyway because the developers don't even properly maintain their Anti-cheat code base.<br>It is also very dangerous as if there are any bugs in the anti-cheat, it can lead to massive system instability.<br>Do research on a piece of DRM software called Starforce. It was DRM software that worked at Ring level 0 which was so bad, it actually completely destroyed thousands of people's computers. It would force them into an endless boot loop that not even safe mode would help you fix. You had to re-install Windows entirely.<br>Stay away from any games that do this. Garbage, all of them.,(reply>), srs?