[cannonpalms]

The unfortunate reality is that, depending on your personal preferences, "most modern games" require such a ring 0 anti-cheat. Any game that has a matchmaking mode with a competitive option requires a rootkit.

As an aside, I recently found Riot Games' Vanguard installed on my Linux ESP partition... after having installed the game on my windows partition. It rooted every OS it could find mounted. Incredible.

[xandrius]

Modern games are not just shooting stuff in competitive mode.

There exist a gazillion of other games too, without anti-cheat.

[cornstalks]

GP said "depending on your personal preferences" and clearly didn't imply all "modern games" are competitive shooters.

[tommica]

How did you find out that you had a rootkit?