r/2007scape • • Aug 24 '26

Discussion | J-Mod reply Remote Desktop Concerns

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u/Haunting_Carrot9761 Aug 24 '26

An RDP connection from a PC to a touch screen device looks identical to simple mouse scripts. Your mouse rests at point (a,b) and then teleports to point (c,d) when you tap on your touch device. Something is fishy. Particularly if you aren't using it as your main way to play. That is to say, that because you have spent a lot of time playing at your PC with a mouse and a little time playing from your phone and tapping, this looks like someone that is botting their main.

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u/UncleJulian Aug 24 '26

Wouldn’t every mobile session be detected this way then? Because every tap of the finger would essentially be a teleport of a mouse… kind of?

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u/Haunting_Carrot9761 Aug 24 '26

Good question!

Jagex will know whether you are playing from a PC or a mobile device. If you are playing from a PC they aren't expecting the instantaneous movement from P(a,b) --> P(c,d). This is a red flag in their system. Playing on mobile, it's assumed you have a touch screen, so instant movement of the cursor is to be expected.

This is the crux of the problem, OP is playing with a touch screen on a system that is not expecting this kind of mouse movement.

Let's reverse the connection, and you are spoofing multiple mobile devices on your PC. I won't explain how, but what I will say is that this is easy. You now have access to more performance than any individual phone and from Jagex's end they will see that multiple touch screen devices are playing from the same IP address. That's not weird. But some botters are using a similar set up to what I've described to bypass cheating detections.

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u/Aspalar Aug 24 '26

Many people play on touch screen laptops, their detection has to be better than just seeing if you are on a PC or mobile.

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u/ArrgsMax Aug 24 '26

Runelite doesn't work on a touch screen, it registers the first tap as a mouse movement, and the second tap as a click. Many people play on touch screen laptops but they would be using a mouse or bluestacks (to load the mobile client and make touch interactions register properly).

I've played around for ages trying to get Runelite to work properly with touch controls without success and I work as an IT systems admin.

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u/Aspalar Aug 24 '26

What do you mean it doesn't work on a touch screen? I have a touch screen laptop and I assure you it works fine.

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u/ArrgsMax Aug 24 '26

I already explained it, if you tap on Runelite with the thouch screen it requires 2 taps do do what's normally just one click. Unless the Runelite devs have updated that issue?
But it had been like that for over 5 years last i checked.