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Epic Games Announce Full Easy Anti-Cheat Support for Linux Incl. Wine and Proton
- zamadatix 5y agoThis is a big step in gaming on Linux. One of the guys I play with regularly had a Windows install purely for EAC games.
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- zodiakzz 5y agoNeat. I am pumped about Intel GPUs with official open source drivers for Linux. Exciting times ahead!
- boardwaalk 5y agoSo, uhh, how does EAC work on Linux? Do I have to let it sudo and insmod a kernel module…?
- anfilt 5y agoUghh 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 5y agoI 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 5y agoAnd as a plus you have access to all customer data (rootkit).
- Anunayj 5y agoWell 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 5y agoThis... is not a good thing
- Anunayj 5y agoWhy is it not? It brings software support to Linux, which I assume isn't a bad thing?