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Which games do you play that require anti-cheat schemes? The last time I checked, many such games explicitly do not support running in VMs and you risk being b
by cdata 5y ago
Which games do you play that require anti-cheat schemes?
The last time I checked, many such games explicitly do not support running in VMs and you risk being banned by obfuscating that you are running the game in a guest OS.
- Google234 5y agoFor EAC, they require a variety of signals to ban someone (unless it’s a obvious thing like detecting a known cheat.) An honest VM setup that doesn’t obfuscate probably counts as one potential signal that you are cheating, an obfuscated one that they are able detect might be a stronger signal.
- gnif 5y agoMost games work just fine, just a few odd ones that decided to block VMs don't such as Tarkov. Known to work without issue are titles such as * PUBG * Battlefield 1/3/4/5 * Titanfall 1&2 * Arma 3 * 7 Days to Die * Ark * Fortnite * Apex * Halo: The Master Chief Collection * Star Wars Squadrons And many many more.
- gigatexal 5y agoThe only games I play are Doom Eternal and Starcraft 2 — by chance do you know if those work or if there’s a list somewhere?
- gnif 5y agoNo idea about doom, but Starcraft 2 works for me fine.
- himinlomax 5y agoSC2 works almost perfectly under Wine/Proton. Only issue is that a few custom maps crash, and there's a weird, minor performance issue at some point in the LOTV campaign menus (but not the game itself). Haven't had an issue in a ladder game in years. And I play SC2 a lot (too much).
- gnif 5y ago"Almost" is the key word here, under a VFIO VM, it's 100% flawless.
- zaptheimpaler 5y agoI recently finished the single player campaign on Doom Eternal - that worked perfect, though i havent tried multiplayer.
- unholythree 5y agoReally, is that why Tarkov drops me when I try to start a match? At least CS:GO told me their anti-cheat hated my setup (Windows 10 in a Xenserver VM) and I was able to get a refund.
- gnif 5y agoCS:GO works fine in a libvirt/KVM VM last I checked. As for Tarkov, see: https://mobile.twitter.com/TheBattlEye/status/1289027672186720263 https://mobile.twitter.com/TheBattlEye/status/12890276721867... Note that the game vendor selects what features they want to apply to their titles that are available. BattlEye allows you to stop people using VMs, if the game vendor opts in to this stupid feature.
- formerly_proven 5y agoDoes running CS:GO in a VM impact trust factor? Trust and prime are pretty much the only thing to reduce cheaters encountered in your matches since CS:GO does not have a working anti-cheat.
- PUSH_AX 5y agoLikely. There were some hacks in the last year or so that required looking glass.
- isatty 5y agoDoesn’t CS:GO run on Linux? I exclusively play dota 2 on Linux and it performs better than in Windows imo.
- lbotos 5y agoit does, but you can only play matchmaking AFAIK, ESEA and FaceIT don't support linux for their anti-cheats.
- isatty 5y agoInteresting, I didn't even know you had external parties providing league based (I'm guessing) match making. All matches in Dota 2 run through the official valve coordinator or are pre-made lobbies. There is a LAN only build iirc, but not widely available to the public.
- carlhjerpe 5y agoAdd Overwatch and Trackmania 2020 to this list too, they both work flawlessly.
- zaptheimpaler 5y agoIve played PUBG, COD Warzone, Apex Legends, Quake Champions, maybe a few others. Of course it depends on the game but i think the perception of how many games don't work under VMs is a bit skewed. TBH every thread like this has the “but what about anti-cheat?” post which makes it seem like a big problem but i think only a tiny minority of games don’t work under VMs.
- cdata 5y agoThanks! That is more than I expected. FWIW I tried to install Valorant in a VM recently (because I'm tired of installing the root-kit anti-cheat on my main PC in order to play it). It simply fails to launch the anti-cheat, and so doesn't launch the game.
- gnif 5y agoYes, unfortunately Valorant is one that blocks VM usage... not that it has helped them any.
- egeozcan 5y agoAnti-cheat measures end up blocking mostly the well-meaning players. I know it's sometimes too costly, but game studios should invest more on server-side security measures and mostly distrust the clients.