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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes.

nProtect GameGuard (sometimes called GG) is an anti-cheating rootkit developed by INCA Internet.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I wonder if shit like that will eventually lead to more people using wine in windows, in order to sandbox rootkits. Helldivers 2 works fine with proton on Linux, at least.

The absurdity of having a reason to run wine on windows through WSL is amusing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

God, it's so convoluted I'll become a monk first.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

If Linux gaming continues to increase in popularity, I imagine the anti-cheat will start to crawl its way out of the WINE environment and into the native system. But I actually have no clue about how these AC work or is handled by WINE.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Most likely result of this setup becoming popular is the anti-cheat working harder to detect being sandboxed in this manner.

Since it's the same thing a cheater would do to defeat the anti-cheat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe people will transition slowly over to linux