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

    • Carighan Maconar@piefed.world
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      4 days ago

      It uses an anti-cheat that is loaded while the game is not? What is this and why is anybody playing it at all? O.o

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        I can tell you why they do it. Which is to get installed at launch time (like a driver required to boot for example), so they can watch absolutely everything that loads into the system.

        But yes, I wouldn’t play any game that needs a kernel anti-cheat.

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              Agreed. The steam sales alone could keep you so busy that you probably couldn’t even get around to test each one in one life time.

              Chances are if we tried we’d probably find one that you like equal if not better.

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            I got a console when I switched to Linux. This has been a problem for decades now. So I’ve got one corporate game box that works with my friends, and one computer that I actually control.

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        Nope, valorants anti cheat loads on boot and embeds itself on deep windows callbacks to see everything in and out

      • Mark with a Z@suppo.fi
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        All of these companies keep looking for places they can get an inch more. Sometimes it backfires, but other times it succeeds and gets normalized.

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      Yes. I don’t have the source unfortunately but @AntiCheatWard on Twitter confirmed it