R Star Introduces BattlEye Anti-Cheat Function in GTA5 (GTAOL) PC Version

TapTechNews September 17th news, R Star's PC version of has been plagued by cheating players for many years. Now the company has introduced the BattlEye anti-cheat function in the latest update to combat malicious players.

BattlEye is a third-party anti-cheat software used to prevent malicious players from invoking various scripts in many online games. Popular online games such as , , , and all utilize this service.

TapTechNews noticed that now when users start , a BattlEye window will pop up directly, indicating that the BattlEye service will continuously run in the system background during the game:

BattlEye is an anti-cheat software for online multiplayer games that can proactively prevent and detect cheating and ban cheaters from playing on BattlEye-protected servers.

In order to achieve its goal, BattlEye installs a system service that is only active when the game is running. The BattlEye system service also temporarily installs and loads a kernel-mode driver.

Although due to the nature of BattlEye, it needs to access most of the content of your system, it can ensure that your privacy is not violated.

BattlEye is not interested in your personal data (files, passwords, credit card details, etc.) and any other information that is private to you. All BattlEye does is just to achieve its goal of preventing and detecting cheating.