A heads up: there's been reports of people being banned by EA and having EA claim their ban will stay, for playing Battlefield V with Wine + DXVK.
The post on the Lutris forum, has multiple people claiming the same thing. This wouldn't be the first time playing an online game with some form of Wine got people banned, as the same happened with Activision Blizzard and the game Overwatch although the majority of those bans were overturned. In this case, things might not go so well with EA already telling users they will not "remove this sanction from your account"—ouch.
Just another reason why I continue to fight for supported Linux releases. Support developers with your money that support the platform. Playing with Wine (and so Steam Play Proton too), is almost always not supported by the original developer and so they have no reason to actually do anything when problems like this arise. As much as it's a terrible situation, it's best to not play multiplayer titles (EA especially it seems) with Wine based solutions if they have anti-cheat systems in place.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
orochi_kyo Jan 5, 2020
Quoting: ImnotarobotQuoting: mphuZQuoting: jordicomawe don't have the slow downs, hangs, random crashes.Yep. No games , no problems.
Quoting: jordicomaauto reboots for the updates that the windows gamers has.Windows does not have such problems. The problem is on the chair in front of the monitor.
Not sure if anything has changed, but the last time i used it about two years ago it kicked me out while playing multiplayer games when there was an update. Also you could turn settings that makes stuff better, but then there is an update that makes you turn on settings and your old settings have been changed to different ones. That was two years ago. One of the things that really made me get out from it, because the constant hassle of having to set things up for your liking and never really getting anywhere. Not to mention how much ads there were. For a product that i payed money (meaning that i bought 8.1 for 10) it was unacceptable. Truly a garbage product. Maybe some have had better luck with Windows, but that was my experience of it.
Now even if things would have changed i would never go back, because they have done it once and im sure they will do stuff like that again or maybe even something worse.
Don't waste your time with a Windows drone. We have 6000 hundred games, they even denied that straight fact. Also, Cortana using Bing as the default search option... They will say, "there is a tweak for that", why I have to be "tweaking" Windows for something that it should be there a simple option?
About the post, this is what you get for playing EA games, it suits them well.
Last edited by orochi_kyo on 5 January 2020 at 11:20 pm UTC
It's clear Linux isn't the OS to game on if you are wanting to play Windows-only AAA online multiplayer games. It seems a better solution would be to play these game via PS4 Remote Play with the Chiaki client if you own a Playstation 4 or Steam Remote Play if you own a second computer running Windows. I have both myself but use the latter mostly. Fortnite and Destiny 2 are fun to play and Remote Play over Crossover doesn't have the router lag / latency.
All you need for a headless stream server is a long Ethernet or Crossover cable and an HDMI or VGA dummy display adapter. You'll also want to set up VNC to easily remote into the system outside of Remote Play when needed.
Last edited by Xaero_Vincent on 6 January 2020 at 12:54 am UTC
Koopacabras Jan 6, 2020
I wrote a forum post about that.
Last edited by Koopacabras on 6 January 2020 at 5:27 am UTC
Quoting: GuestThis highlights the need to work with companies like Valve and Codeweavers to solve the anti cheat conundrum in their compatibility layer solutions. That is the only thing holding back linux gaming at present
I don't know if they are the only things the size of the market and the community a large are two main issues but yes a work around for anti cheat for liNux couldn't hurt
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