Yes, Windows 10 Fall Creators Update came with an anti-cheat engine: With the release of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update this week, Microsoft rolled out an anti-cheat feature for games, similar to Valve's VAC system.
The new feature is called TruePlay, and it's an anti-cheat system that gamers use in their games. It's a collection of APIs that game developers can use in their games to detect cheaters.
TruePlay allows developers to create games that run in a protected process that will automatically stop certain types of attacks often used by game cheats like aimbots and wallhacks .
In addition to the hardened process container, TruePlay also provides an external Windows service that monitors game sessions for behaviors and manipulations that resemble cheating scenarios, successful or not.
TruePlay will immediately notify game developers in the event of a cheating attempt.
If cheating is detected, TruePlay can display notifications on the device, but it can also collect anonymous user data and send it to the developer, who can decide whether to punish the user and how.
TruePlay is only available for games developed with UWP (Universal Platform of Windows) technology.
Because TruePlay collects data by tracking users, Microsoft has not enabled it by default. You can see it from Settings – TruePlay.
So if game developers adopt the feature, soon, players won't be able to participate in group games without having the feature enabled.
Experts expect TruePlay to become very popular.
Remember that this is an API, and integrating it with existing games should be easier than developing an anti-cheat engine from scratch.
TruePlay was known internally at Microsoft as GameMonitor, and the company released it as a test feature with the July build for Windows Insiders.
