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Detect if game is being streamed or recorded

Discussion in 'Scripting' started by roger0, Dec 9, 2020.

  1. roger0

    roger0

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    Is there any way to detect if the game if being recorded or streamed? I had a thought of putting some cryptids in my game, and giving them a higher chance of showing if the games being steamed/recorded.
     
  2. PraetorBlue

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    Not really. You could check a list of running processes and maybe see OBS or another streaming application, but you wouldn't know if it was recording you or anything at all. Depending on the privilege level your application is running at you might see nothing at all.
     
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  3. roger0

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    That may be good enough. If they have OBS running and the game its presumed that they are recording the game.

    I'm curious what the standard privilege level is for games on most computers. Would checking if a program is running trigger a permission request? If so that kind of defeats the purpose and cause unnecessary confusion.

    Is it possible to detect if they are streaming something from twitter?