Comment on Halo Infinite Update to Bring Networking Overhaul, Easy Anti-Cheat, and More Next Week

CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• aksdb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  EAC isn’t kernel level, AFAIK. It even works in Linux/Proton.

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  • Keegen@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It absolutely is on Windows, on Linux all the kernel level anti-cheats that work at all (EAC, BattlEye) operate purely in user space with no kernel level permissions.

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    • aksdb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TIL

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      • Keegen@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I dearly hope that it stays that way forever. Can you imagine having to input your sudo password before launching a game so it can compile and load some sketchy external kernel module? Fuck that!

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