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One thing to note is that game anti cheats will just lock you out if you are in this mode.

It’s the reason that game cheat makers look for exploits in random drivers to load their cheat in kernel space.



True, I forgot about that detail. Basically anything that relies on driver signing enforcement for security/privacy -- DRM, anti-cheats, specific proprietary algorithms -- will deactivate when test mode is enabled, whether one-time via the bootloader or set via bcdedit.





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