Difference between revisions of "Anti-cheat software"
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=== Easy Anti-Cheat === | === Easy Anti-Cheat === | ||
Easy Anti-Cheat became supported in late 2021 through a recent ''Epic Online Services'' Easy Anti-Cheat software development kit (SDK). Since many Easy Anti-Cheat games [https://archive.is/kQ9Yy don't use the ''Epic Online Services'' version of Easy Anti-Cheat], these games must update or change out their SDK for the ability to enable Proton support. This means it's likely that many Easy Anti-Cheat games will not support Linux for a substantial amount of time. | Easy Anti-Cheat became supported in late 2021 through a recent ''Epic Online Services'' Easy Anti-Cheat software development kit (SDK). Since many Easy Anti-Cheat games [https://archive.is/kQ9Yy don't use the ''Epic Online Services'' version of Easy Anti-Cheat], these games must update or change out their SDK for the ability to enable Proton support. This means it's likely that many Easy Anti-Cheat games will '''not''' support Linux for a substantial amount of time. | ||
=== BattleEye === | === BattleEye === | ||
BattleEye Linux support became supported in late 2021. Developers can enable Proton support for their game by emailing BattleEye developers. | BattleEye Linux support became supported in late 2021. Developers can enable Proton support for their game by emailing BattleEye developers. | ||
Revision as of 23:14, 21 January 2022
Anti-cheat software are tools designed prevent cheating in games. Anti-cheat software oftentimes prevents games from running on Linux, since these anti-cheats don't have Linux support integrated. However, more games with anti-cheat are now becoming playable on Linux.
Anti-cheat games with Linux support
You can see which games have support here.
Details of Anti-cheat Linux support
The most popular anti-cheat software are Easy Anti-Cheat, BattleEye, and VAC. VAC natively supports Linux. Moreover, the anti-cheats EasyAntiCheat and BattleEye currently have support for Linux through Proton. This has resulted in some games enabling this Proton support, so that they're playable on Linux.
Easy Anti-Cheat
Easy Anti-Cheat became supported in late 2021 through a recent Epic Online Services Easy Anti-Cheat software development kit (SDK). Since many Easy Anti-Cheat games don't use the Epic Online Services version of Easy Anti-Cheat, these games must update or change out their SDK for the ability to enable Proton support. This means it's likely that many Easy Anti-Cheat games will not support Linux for a substantial amount of time.
BattleEye
BattleEye Linux support became supported in late 2021. Developers can enable Proton support for their game by emailing BattleEye developers.