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Re:Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/... by jadbox on Monday December 01, 2025 @04:53PM (#46113804)
What? Helldivers 2 works just fine on linux for me. Is this just a windows thing?
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Re:Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/... by simoncion on Monday December 01, 2025 @05:16PM (#46114082)
Not all anticheat fails to work in Wine/Proton.

The super invasive kernel-mode variants (that is, the sort that's in Valorant) flat out fail, and surely always will. It's my (perhaps mistaken) understanding that with some others (like Easy Anti Cheat), it's a choice made by the game dev as to whether running in Wine/Proton will be permitted or not.

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Re:Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/... by ThatPlayer on Monday December 01, 2025 @06:27PM (#46115021)
That's not exclusive to kernel-mode anti-cheats. Even VAC, which is not kernel-mode, doesn't work in Proton: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3225
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Re:Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/... by simoncion on Monday December 01, 2025 @07:04PM (#46115402)
> That's not exclusive to kernel-mode anti-cheats.

Sure, I didn't intend to suggest that it was. That's one of the reasons I mentioned EAC. Apologies for the confusion.

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