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

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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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            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

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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

      • sinokon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Just checked a few sources and yes it only happens when Valorant is already running and you launch BF6