Epic Games Announce Full Easy Anti-Cheat Support for Linux Incl. Wine and Proton

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/09/epic-games-announce-full-easy-anti-cheat-for-linux-including-wine-a-proton

by danaos • 5 years ago

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zamadatix• 5 years ago

This is a big step in gaming on Linux. One of the guys I play with regularly had a Windows install purely for EAC games.

zodiakzz• 5 years ago

Neat. I am pumped about Intel GPUs with official open source drivers for Linux. Exciting times ahead!

boardwaalk• 5 years ago

So, uhh, how does EAC work on Linux? Do I have to let it sudo and insmod a kernel module…?

anfilt• 5 years ago

Ughh don't trust the client! Why do games use bs like anti-cheat instead of running stuff server side.

Anti-cheat is spyware/malware in my opinion.

Fire-Dragon-DoL• 5 years ago

I think running on the server would have a much higher cost. If you think about it, you are offloading the hardware cost onto the customer

hulitu• 5 years ago

And as a plus you have access to all customer data (rootkit).

Anunayj2• 5 years ago

Well there are some cheats that are purely cosmetic but can give a edge in certain gaming scenarios and are very hard to detect serverside. AntiCheats are basically security by obscurity, I don't think anyone should trust them, But I think running them in a VM isn't that bad of a deal?

nitia• 5 years ago

This... is not a good thing

Anunayj2• 5 years ago

Why is it not? It brings software support to Linux, which I assume isn't a bad thing?

Epic Games Announce Full Easy Anti-Cheat Support for Linux Incl. Wine and Proton

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