deadcade

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft looking to restrict kernel level access after CrowdStrike incident might help us with our current Anti-Cheat dilemma⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Client side anti-cheat is inherently flawed. These games are asking an untrusted computer whether it is cheating. That’s like asking a known liar whether they’re lying at that moment. The one way to make it harder for the computer to “lie” is by increasing the permissions the AC has, which comes at the cost of privacy for people with the game, and security for every Windows user (not just the ones with a certain game installed).

  Client side anti-cheat can be poked and investigated locally, with no restrictions. All it takes a skilled enough cheater is time, and they will bypass it. The only way to test server side anti-cheat is by hopping in the game, trying to learn how it works, and trying to bypass it. That is a much more time consuming and expensive process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Help] Euro Truck Simulator 2 is not running full speed on Steam Deck.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The linux binary is being used.

  Try Proton. Currently, Proton is much more developed than the Linux support for many game engines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy anti cheat-- is this malware or harmful for the steam deck?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On the Steam Deck, while using SteamOS (or other Linux distros), EAC (and a few others like Battleye) run in userspace, not as kernel level.

  The intention of Anti-Cheat and DRM is to hide what they’re doing, in an attempt to prevent people from cheating or pirating. Malware often uses similar techniques to hide what it’s doing.

  Kernel level Anti-Cheat runs with the highest level of permission on your system, meaning it has access to everything happening on your PC, and all your hardware.

  That means kernel level Anti-Cheat can do whatever it wants on your computer, and it’s intentionally hard to figure out what it’s doing. Even though it’s probably not harmful, it shares a lot of similarities with actual malware, and we can’t be fully sure whether it is harmful or not. This is why a lot of people are against kernel level Anti-Cheat.

  EAC, afaik, has acted as just an anti cheat, and is therefore likely not harmful to your system. However, like other Anti-Cheats, it is harmful with the standards being set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the games featured in the Steam Deck OLED video?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For 2, Persona 5 Royal (in its opening hours if I’m not mistaken). The only one available on Steam.