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Doesnt work for me

Doesnt work for me

Posted Dec 10, 2025 4:22 UTC (Wed) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
In reply to: Doesnt work for me by brunowolff
Parent article: Bazzite: a gem for Linux gamers

> I don't play any massively multiplayer games, where cheating is a real problem. So I don't have experience on whether any anti-cheat stuff works.

As a rule of thumb, recent online multiplayer games do not run on any platform other than Windows. This is because they want to install kernel drivers and suchlike to prevent cheating, and no amount of Wine-like chicanery will ever enable that to work. You would at least need a full userspace implementation of the NT kernel, and more realistically a hypervisor or VM. But I imagine that some of them also want to talk to the TPM etc. and will refuse to run in a non-ring-0 configuration.


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Doesnt work for me

Posted Dec 10, 2025 4:25 UTC (Wed) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325) [Link]

I should also note for the record that many *older* multiplayer games are totally fine on Linux. Some of them are even Steam Deck verified. It's mostly just the hypercompetitive Fortnite knockoffs that do the whole Windows-only kernel-level anticheat thing.

Doesnt work for me

Posted Dec 10, 2025 10:18 UTC (Wed) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

At the moment, "requires Secure Boot on Windows" is a good proxy for "will not run on any other platform". Those are the games that have anti-cheat that is likely to be problematic on Linux, for now.


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