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Valve seems to have quietly rolled out a major upgrade to their Anti-Cheat system and it’s apparently wrecking havoc on cheat providers (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[–] 277 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I really hope valve can get VAC into a good space so it can be an example of doing anti-cheat well without having to be a rootkit. Looks like we're heading towards that point. Hopefully this change will last

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  • [–] 39 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    John Macdonald is cooking the best fucking server-sided anticheat with all that compute power in Bellevue. Lets see him become a master chef!

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    I wonder if that is actually their long-term goal. I feel like anti-cheats are like the last obstacle for Linux gaming where some highly popular games are straight-up unplayable on Linux; with how much stake Valve has in the success of Linux gaming (Steam Deck duh) maybe they want to make it so that eventually all games with anti-cheats can run on Linux

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    I mean, to me, this is amazingly obviously the goal.

    Games run better ~5% fps better now on Linux (when using a distro configured for gaming) than they do on Windows.

    As you say, last technical obstacle is kernel AC rootkits.

    Solve that, anyone still gaming on Windows is a MSFT fanboy, afraid of change, whatever.

    But they have very little actual solid reason to remain on Windows.

    Start getting people outta Windows for home PCs, it becomes basically just a shitty corpo OS.

    Rather, not OS... but ecosystem.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I'd actually imagine for non-Microsoft properties, they would have all the more reason to run away from Windows to linux as soon as the anticheat issue is resolved.

    I'd imagine they would come to the same conclusion that Gaben had with Win8: Relying on Microsoft "never restricting" the installation of software outside of the windows/Xbox store in the future is a huge gamble. Better to avoid the risk entirely.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    Right I used to think Android would be smart enough to maintain the illusion of an open platform alternative to Apple that doesn't restrict users as heavily, but even Android is moving towards a locked down platform that doesn't let users sideload apps or install alternative OS, if this succeeds then I'm quite sure Microsoft will follow suit the greedy fucks that they are. We need more alternative phone companies and easier ways to make cross platform apps that can run on non Apple and Android phones easily

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