The air hums with tension as you hover your cursor over the *Play* button in *Valorant*, *CS2*, or *Fortnite*—titles where anti-cheat systems like VAC, BattlEye, and EAC stand as digital sentinels, ever-watchful for the faintest whiff of a hack. Yet, for many gamers, the dream of seamless, high-performance gameplay persists, even when local hardware falls […]