Note: This guide assumes you are using a legitimate copy of the game.
On Steam, reporting does nothing. On Plutonium, use !report in chat or join their Discord. Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 Buddha.dll
As of 2025, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is now under the umbrella of Ricochet Anti-Cheat (for the Microsoft Store/Game Pass versions) and updated VAC modules. While legacy VAC on the Steam version is less aggressive, community-hosted servers using Plutonium (a private BO2 client) have their own sophisticated detection. Any public Buddha.dll will trigger a permanent ban within hours. Note: This guide assumes you are using a
Security firms (like Malwarebytes and Kaspersky) have flagged thousands of variants of Buddha.dll as trojans. Because DLLs run with the same permissions as the game itself, a malicious Buddha.dll can: On Steam, reporting does nothing
Contrary to popular belief (and many Reddit threads), Buddha.dll was not malware. It was not a cheat engine, nor was it a Bitcoin miner secretly installed by Activision.
Buddha.dll was a corrupted or poorly optimized shader cache file.
Here is the technical breakdown: