Ryft Anti-Cheat

For players

Ryft keeps your matches fair, and stays out of the rest of your PC.

If the server you play on uses Ryft, here is exactly what it looks at, what it never touches, and what you can do if you disagree with a decision.

What Ryft checks, and what it never looks at

Ryft only runs while the server's launcher or the game is open. When you close them, it stops.

What it checks

  • Your actions in the match, on the server: building, editing, shooting, moving, against what the game allows.
  • The game's own files and the code loaded into it, to spot something injected or modified.
  • Known cheating and debugging tools that are open while you play. Only tools on Ryft's list are reported.
  • Hardware fingerprints, turned into codes, so that a banned player cannot simply come back on a new account.
  • A few Windows security settings, such as Secure Boot, which say whether a PC has been prepared for cheating.

What it never looks at

  • Your personal files and folders.
  • Your screen, your camera or your microphone.
  • The list of programs installed or running on your PC.
  • Your browser, your messages or your passwords.
  • Your hardware's serial numbers in readable form: only codes made from them.

No kernel driver today. Ryft does not install a driver or anything that starts with Windows. A kernel component is planned: signed by Microsoft, fully documented, and optional for each server. Before any server uses it, it will be announced on this page, and you will be asked before anything is installed.

If you were banned

Ryft never bans anyone on its own. A ban comes from the staff of the server you play on, after they looked at the evidence.

  1. Note your ban ID

    The launcher shows it on the ban screen, with the reason and the end date.

  2. Contact the server

    Use the appeal link on the ban screen, or the server's own support. They made the decision and can review it.

  3. Explain your case

    Give your ban ID and what happened. Staff see the same evidence Ryft recorded.

  4. Get an answer

    The staff confirm, shorten or lift the ban. Every change is kept in your history.

Ryft's team does not lift bans for a server. If you think the evidence itself is wrong, a false detection by Ryft, write to contact@ryft.ac with your ban ID and the server's name.

Your data

The server you play on decides to use Ryft and is responsible for your data. Ryft processes it on that server's behalf, only to fight cheating, under a data processing agreement.

90 days

Anti-cheat data is deleted after 90 days, unless a sanction is in force. Then what supports the sanction is kept for as long as it lasts.

Codes, not identities

Hardware fingerprints are one-way codes. They tell two PCs apart; they cannot be turned back into a serial number.

Your rights

You can ask to see, correct or delete your data, or object to it being used. Ask the server first; you can also write to us and we will pass it on.

The full details are in the privacy policy.

Questions

Is Ryft a virus?

No. To spot cheats, Ryft has to look at the code loaded into the game, which is also what some antivirus programs watch for. That is why an antivirus may occasionally ask about it.

Ryft only looks inside the game, sends nothing but what is listed on this page, and stops when the game and the launcher are closed.

Does Ryft slow down my game?

No. The heavy checks run on the server. On your PC, Ryft's checks are small, run at low priority and never make the game wait.

Can Ryft ban me automatically?

No. Ryft flags and records. Only a member of the server's staff can sanction a player, and the reason is shown to you.

I use Discord, a recording tool or an overlay. Is that a problem?

No. Common overlays and recording tools are known and are not treated as cheats. If one is ever flagged by mistake, it goes to a person, never to a ban.

Can I play without Ryft?

Ryft protects everyone in the match, so a server that uses it asks every player to run it. You can stop at any time by closing the game and the launcher; nothing keeps running afterwards.