Originally posted by nuetzel
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- When starting my game with BattlEye enabled, random legitimate applications on my system are being terminated.
- When starting my game with BattlEye enabled, my system crashes with a bluescreen (BSOD).
BattlEye should be in the boycott game for most users due to what it does. BattlEye should be you don't play it unless you have a decanted gaming only computer and even then need to take extra security to isolate it from your other machines because BattlEye forces windows to run with downgraded security. Windows security is poor enough without being even poorer. Yes that random-ally terminating applications can be killing your third party anti-virus and this is caused because they use undocumented sections of windows kernel to check if applications should be allowed to run or not so when Microsoft developers change those all hell breaks loss.
There is evidence that valve is attempt to work with BattlEye to get those games to work. But when we are talking about a product like BattlEye that not obeying Microsoft requirements on driver development you are kind of in a deep pit of hell where developers at Valve will most likely have to be saying no to things they are requesting todo because Linux users absolutely will not tolerate it. This would be a different matter if we were talking about one of the anti-cheats that do in fact obey Microsoft development instructions. Like we could have been talking about the windows version of punkbuster that wine cannot get work due to it check-summing everything at least this is not break your OS security solution. Yes there is a Linux version of punkbuster that Linux users don't instantly look at the security of it and hate it..
In some ways we may need BattlEye working under Linux with proton because BattlEye is insecure under Windows and maybe the Linux support will be done right but I would not be holding my breath on that.
Really there have been games using BattlEye anti-cheat under windows when ported to Linux use a different anti-cheat that don't breach the core of your operating system. So in some ways you could be up the game developers using BattlEye to release a Linux version due to their current solution being a insecure mess or maybe change away from BattlEye to something that is not a insecure mess that happens to work under wine as well.
The reality is some of the stuff that does not work under wine when you look closer you really should be avoiding running it in the first place or be really restrictive how you do run those programs.
Yes I know gamers really don't like being told they should not play X game because it a security disaster but that is the reality with the BattEye stuff.
Originally posted by nuetzel
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