Battledield now throwing an error because Valorant is already sitting in kernel memory. Time to buy your EA Battlefield PC but don’t forget your Valorant PC

  • Destide@feddit.ukOP
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    5 days ago

    This is windows, So Valorant is running its anticheat stopping Battlefields anti-cheat from starting up. Meaning you will have to pick one game as they all seem to start from boot though other sources have said the games have to be running.

    In Linux you could prob just run a pass-through in a couple of VMs. But Linux itself doesn’t work with most of these anti-cheats so by default no one running Linux is exposed to this sort of thing.

    • biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone
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      I’m not an expert, but it sounds like if you finish a session of valorant, the anti cheat never unloads and continues to monitor memory and files.

      Easy Anticheat though, according so some sources, only runs during game play.

      Riots Anticheat has a bad history though. But both essentially are black boxes that send details both hash and samples back to their owners for them to approve what’s on it computer. Opened a medical record? It’s probably been hashed and sent back.

      Opened your employers accounting files when working from home? details you probably sent riot a copy.

      Both can be updated. There’s no guarantees that riot won’t do something nasty against a portion of high value targets. They know you from your payment details. They can identify, update the module and get anything they like, they have root.

      Anticheat has a history of being a tool for hackers. https://www.vice.com/en/article/hackers-are-using-anti-cheat-in-genshin-impact-to-ransom-victims/

      There’s no upside for the user. Mostly because they don’t work anyway.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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      In Linux you could prob just run a pass-through in a couple of VMs.

      So instead of having trouble with drivers for your one GPU, you can have it with two. Awesome.

      • seralth@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        Good news that doesn’t work at all full stop.

        Virtualization in any form doesn’t work with vanguard.