Custom Crosshair Utility: Cheating? Options

[Stickman]

Hi all.

I've been using a little (24k) program called cutomCrosshair to provide me with a static crosshair in COD. The program performs the software equivalent of using a marker to draw a dot in the center of your monitor screen; it takes a given bitmap and draws it on top of any other application you have running. As it's a stand-alone program that does not interect with whatever game you may be running, it is invisible to PB or any other hack detectors.

It's obviously a cobbled together utility; there's a bug that causes the windows pointer to flicker on top of the game window from time to time. Instead of tracking the bug down and fixing it, the programmer added a hotkey to toggle the visibility of the windows pointer.

The biggest drawback is that the crosshair doesn't disappear when you aim down the sight, so it can obscure your view. I get around this by using an "inverted v" crosshair, so when aiming down the sight it only covers the gun model, not the target.

My question: Is this cheating? Should I stop? Or make the program available to all? The website I got it from has since vanished.

What say you all?

This post has been edited by Stickman: 03/15/06 4:25pm

[Silver]

I personally think its lame that anyone would mark their screen or run a program to do better. I dont really care but now I will feel better to know that when I kill all of you that I did it with a disadvantage. I play STOCK, no tape, marks, programs blah blah blah...

fucking bunch of window lickers! LMAO!
personally Im not into programs and BE careful that PB dont all of a sudden ban you for it. would suck if you had to buy a new game

[Bargod]

I personally think its lame that anyone would mark their screen or run a program to do better. I dont really care but now I will feel better to know that when I kill all of you that I did it with a disadvantage. I play STOCK, no tape, marks, programs blah blah blah...

fucking bunch of window lickers! LMAO!
personally Im not into programs and BE careful that PB dont all of a sudden ban you for it. would suck if you had to buy a new game

BTW, if putting a mark on your monitor is lame, then overclocking your video card must be a definate cheat. Your video card is not supposed to run that fast. So, modifying it to do better so that you can do better in the game is clearly unfair.
Also, you can't get much more of a disadvantage than me. I'm below every minimum requirement to play the game except one, so I think a little dot on my screen is deserved. LOL!
Finally, when I was getting pointers from some guys in a certain clan that is considered to be one of the best cod2 teams around, putting a mark on the screen was one of the tips I was given. Of course, I'd figured that out long before they told me, but my point is that this is clearly something done by many people playing cod.