Recently, i had to move from nixos to windows against my will simpy because of anti cheats. While i dont game that much, the few games i enjoy playing are all online with some kind of anti cheat. I used to dual boot but i was tired of having to wait for my slow hdd to load windows (i only have one ssd). I literally used linux for everything else but because of anti cheats i am forced to move to windows. I managed to make it a little better by using wsl2 and removing bloatware but it will never be the same as linux
Well yeah, you can’t expect a third-party anti-cheat to solve all of your problems, each game is going to have idiosyncrasies.
I think Valve’s Overwatch system is a fantastic example of ways to innovate without compromising a user’s security or requiring platform-specific cheat detection. It’s probably not enough on its own (those reviewers need data), but to me it’s preferable to something more invasive like BattleEye. A lot of that can be done server-side, by running player movements through an AI model that detects players that fit certain patterns, or don’t fit common patterns.
Correction, EAC barely works on linux. Apex is just safer because Respawn themselves are putting in some effort.
Well yeah, you can’t expect a third-party anti-cheat to solve all of your problems, each game is going to have idiosyncrasies.
I think Valve’s Overwatch system is a fantastic example of ways to innovate without compromising a user’s security or requiring platform-specific cheat detection. It’s probably not enough on its own (those reviewers need data), but to me it’s preferable to something more invasive like BattleEye. A lot of that can be done server-side, by running player movements through an AI model that detects players that fit certain patterns, or don’t fit common patterns.