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Epic Games announce full Easy Anti-Cheat support for Linux including Wine & Proton
23 Sep 2021 at 7:17 pm UTC Likes: 10

i was trying to figure out what anti cheat solution an specific game uses and found this usefull site:

https://levvvel.com/games-with-kernel-level-anti-cheat-software/ [External Link]

here is the ammount of games per anti cheat software (according to this site wich probably is incomplete)

easy anti cheat 140 games

battle eye 42 games (valve is working on it)
esea (1 game, from valve)
faceit (1 game, from valve)

still missing
equ8 (5 games)
mhyprot2 (2 games)
nprotect gameguard 15 games
punk buster 52 games
ten project (1 games)
vanguard (1 games)
xigncode3 (6 games)

speaking of non steam games, all EA/dice games seem to be using punk buster, as for ubisoft, they seem to be spread among many solutions

[update]
i said all EA/dice games were using punk buster, but thats only true EA developed games, not EA published games.
some EA published games were made using easy anti cheat, i'm not sure if most of then are still active.

Steam Client Beta updated with PipeWire desktop capture for Remote Play
23 Sep 2021 at 6:26 pm UTC

hell i hope that means i will be able to use something like jack-rack without messing the audio of everything else

Steam Deck dev-kits are on the move Valve say, as some already have it
18 Sep 2021 at 4:41 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: const
Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: FrawoWell, Valve already made a Linux console and CDPR did nothing.
They did something. They hired VP to do their TW2 port and they probably intended to let them continue with TW3. But since the Steam Machines went nowhere, so did their efforts.

Definitely interesting to know whether they would come back and do it for real if the Steam Deck takes off. Even a Vulkan engine in the game would be a big step.
The shitstorm for the initially really bad port was probably enough to make them stay away. TW3 was never announced by CDPR.
dude there was literally an big banner saying witcher 3 was coming to steamOS

Steam Deck dev-kits are on the move Valve say, as some already have it
16 Sep 2021 at 3:22 pm UTC

Quoting: Lachu„we saw the Phil Spencer of Xbox had access too and commented on Halo, Age of Empires and xCloud working nicely.”

Mueeehhhhh ... !
So MS test these games on modified Arch Linux?
asking the real question

The new work on futex2 from Collabora to improve Linux gaming and Proton has third attempt
16 Sep 2021 at 11:40 am UTC

Quoting: whizse
Quoting: elmapul"- Add ARM support"
wth '-', serious? there is any wine-arm?
Wine is ported to Android [External Link] and does (supposedly, I never tried it) run some WinRT applications on ARM.
applications is a thing that dont require an low input lag to work...
i wonder how well it can play games

The new work on futex2 from Collabora to improve Linux gaming and Proton has third attempt
16 Sep 2021 at 9:09 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: BielFPsThis is one of the reasons I think Steam Deck might ship with Valve's custom kernel, with Futex2 and probably some other out of tree patches.
probably with some form of drm to convince netflix and others to support it (netflix already works on linux at 720p, but im not sure about disney+ and others)

and the deal they have with anti cheat solutions may include some kernel level features.

The new work on futex2 from Collabora to improve Linux gaming and Proton has third attempt
16 Sep 2021 at 9:07 am UTC

"- Add ARM support"
wth '-', serious? there is any wine-arm?

PS4 emulator Spine gets a new demo release
11 Sep 2021 at 1:54 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: DerpFoxExclusives are always bad.

We can't make a fuss about interoperability. And things not coming to Linux all the time. And as the same time cheer up when some important project like this one is exclusive to Linux because the devs "don't care". It's the exact same attitude a lot of Windows game-dev are giving us. I truly believe we are better than that.
there is no such a thing as an world without exclusives, there is either what we have on consoles that a few games are exclusive to playstation, others to nintendo, others to xbox and everything else is multiplatform...
or what we have on pc where allmost everything is exclusive to windows due to it higher marketshare.
the only way to break this is increassing linux marketshare, we tried to do that without making exclusives and failed, keeping trying an strategy that dont work seems madness to me.
honestly i hope that i'm wrong and that steam deck can break the curse, but until that happens, i'm tired of waiting 10 years to maybe be able to run an game, or maybe having to wait even more, i'm tired of searching the depts of the web to try to make an obscure game works, not finding anything and trying anyway without even knowing if its at least possible to make the game run or if im wasting my time and should wait for wine to improve.
and im tired of waiting for the bug A to be fixed and when its finally fixed on wine and i can play the game flawless, i found out that an new bug B has appeared.

people will complain that something is exclusive to an platform only when they dont use/have this platform, other than that they are fine with exclusives, just pretend they arent.
if gamers were serious about that they wouldnt use windows to begin with.

PS4 emulator Spine gets a new demo release
11 Sep 2021 at 1:49 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: TheRiddick
Quoting: SpykerA bit too shady for me to test it now.
I'll wait until it's properly open-sourced.
Just run it inside a container or whatever people use for security these days. I don't really do this myself as I only use a very specific selection of software atm, but it should prevent the app from backdooring into your real filesystem. (assuming they'd do something like that, which I'd highly doubt)

Also I wonder how this works since allot of PS4 titles required updating online to play; I guess that can work if it connects to a PS4 account but no doubt Sony would ban any attempts at online multiplayer.

It's a shame really that Sony doesn't endorse such projects; it be nice to see a Sony Online store for PC and Linux just like how Microsoft has captured so many people with their Xbox Game Pass for PC deal. Which btw is blocked from running under Linux... walled gardens are just crap imo!

With the level of telemetry data hoovering going on under Windows OS's, NOBODY should be paying for the stupid OS! NOBODY!
microsoft port xbox games to windows because its an win win situation for then, either they make money on xbox selling the machine +charging for royalites, or they sell the games for windows pc, they dont care as long as people keep using their products.
the main reason why they start breaking their exclusivities is because its still exclusive to then.
sony porting games to pc is not an win win situation for then, microsoft would still win at the end and linux/mac dont have enough marketshare/ecosystem to compete with microsoft.

its a shame but valve really opened the pandora box once they tried and failed with steam machines, and made proton public, microsoft is not focusing on attacking sony anymore but defending their monopoly, and gamers see then as heroes for doing so "fighting against exclusives" what an joke.

PS4 emulator Spine gets a new demo release
10 Sep 2021 at 11:24 am UTC Likes: 4

"Spine is an upcoming PlayStation 4 emulator that's currently closed-source while it's under heavy development. It's also currently only available for Linux. "

that is what im talking about an nice linux exclusive.
the ironic part is that sony is porting their games, so we kinda dont need this anyway...
and the sad part for me is, even if thirdy parties make games exclusively for ps4 because most of their audience is on it, the games that i care about the most are anime games and i dont want to play the censorstation version.

that aside, the best part of it being closed source is that its unlikely that someone will port it to windows and the windows version receive more contributions due to windows having an bigger marketshare.

on an side note, looks like there are already other emulators avaliable, i found one open source but its just for windows and mac.
i hope this one is better to keep gamers interested in linux, then they open source it increase our marketshare...
but i find it unlikely, the open source one tend to evolve faster =p