• Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    9 hours ago

    “it is” settings

    You know software with more access than I have is quality when even the error messages have typos. Fuck that, I’m not installing malware to play any videogame…

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    9 hours ago

    I can barely trust security companies to not screw up, let alone a game company running something at kernel level

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    10 hours ago

    Goddamnit, I sort of kind of predicted this would eventually happen with Kernel level ACs… about 24 hrs before this started happening.

    Now, I was describing it in a context of someone trying to run like an extra Kernel level AC over a game that had a non Kernel AC… to make it ‘more secure’…

    But yeah, this is pretty much back to the olds days of McAffee and Norton fighting each other and identifying each other as malware, when they’re both installed at the same time and always running.

    Awesome.

  • arankays@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    Question for you guys who dislike anti cheats.

    Do you lock your door at night? Why? Anyone could just use a fireman’s axe and open it. Or they could just drive through your living room and steal everything.

    The goal of an anti cheat is not to stop cheating. It’s to deter it. That’s just basic cybersecurity.

    Anyone who’s played valorant knows that the cheater occurrences are SIGNIFICANTLY lower when compared to CS2. same with call of duty. 2FA and hardware bans are also not foolproof. But they deter cheaters.

    If you’re concerned about privacy just dual boot windows in a separate SSD to play games and use Linux and Graphene OS.

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      Do you lock your door at night?

      No, I rely on a bro from Riot Games to come round and lock me in, so they can be sure I won’t go out at night and commit crimes.

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        4 hours ago

        Nice. Enjoy playing counter strike with all the cheaters. Fun game!

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        5 hours ago

        You’re so brave not installing a game anti cheat really stick it to the man

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    11 hours ago

    The headline makes it sound worse than it is.

    From the article:

    Riot head of anti-cheat Phillip Koskinas cleared up the misunderstanding in an X post earlier this week.

    “Vanguard is compatible with Javelin, and you don’t need to uninstall one anti-cheat to use the other. However, BF6 does not currently allow the VALORANT client to be running simultaneously, because both drivers race to protect regions of game memory with the same technique.”

    So, you can play play BF6 and VALORANT at the same time… not exactly a massive issues unless you’re running a mainframe, I guess?