I feel your pain—I went through the exact same thing when I first started!
Getting ChatGPT to write a script is the easy part, but getting it to actually play nice with Windows and game engines is where it usually falls apart. That WinError 5 (Access Denied) is a classic. Most of the time, it’s not actually the game's anti-cheat blocking you yet; it’s just Windows protecting itself.
Here are a few things that worked for me when I was stuck in that same loop:
- Run as Administrator: This is the big one. If your game is running with admin privileges (which most do), your Python script or your code editor (like VS Code or PyCharm) also needs to be Run as Administrator. If the script has lower permissions than the game, Windows will kill the connection every time.
- Switch to pydirectinput: If you are using the standard
pyautogui library that ChatGPT loves to recommend, it often fails in games because many titles use DirectX. Try swapping it out for pydirectinput. It mimics actual hardware scans better and usually bypasses those basic "access denied" hiccups.
- Check your Antivirus: Sometimes Windows Defender sees a Python script trying to "control" the mouse and keyboard and flags it as a keylogger. You might need to add your project folder to the exclusions list.
Regarding the anti-cheat side of things: if you're playing something with a heavy kernel-level anti-cheat (like Vanguard or EAC), Python scripts using standard libraries often get blocked because they don't send "low-level" hardware signals. If the Admin fix doesn't work, that might be what you're hitting.
One last tip—make sure you add randomized sleep timers between your actions. If your macro clicks every exactly 100ms, the game will flag you for botting pretty quickly. Real human clicks are messy! Good luck with the script, it's a great way to learn Python once you get past these annoying hurdles.