Comment on Halo Infinite Update to Bring Networking Overhaul, Easy Anti-Cheat, and More Next Week
Keegen@lemmy.zip 3 months agoIt 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.
aksdb@lemmy.world 3 months ago
TIL
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!
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I hate how obfuscated it is on Windows. At least if it asked me for sudo, I’d know to Uninstall. On Windows programs can just do anything.
Keegen@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I’m pretty sure games that use kernel level anti-cheat on Windows do need administrator permissions to launch (I’m not certain though, I haven’t used Windows since before this whole kernel anti-cheat thing started to become common). It’s just that on Windows it’s a simple OK box majority of people click through without a thought because of how used they are to doing it without really knowing what it does.