It's over! Important Steam Deck News
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Published 2024-08-08
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This Could Fix The Steam Deck Forever
We May See The End of Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Soon - Steam Deck HQ
There are thousands and thousands of games that work on the Steam Deck, which makes it one of the devices with the biggest library of games that you can play. It makes it one of the most appealing devices to use for gaming, but there are still some games you can't play at all, thanks to the way their anti-cheat works. The tools, which are used for games like Call of Duty, Valorant, and Battlefield are aimed at curbing cheaters by running the software at the kernel level, a core part of the operating system with unrestricted access to your system. It is effective, but this is only compatible with the Windows operating system, making it impossible to play on the Steam Deck/SteamOS, which runs using Linux. But we may see a change soon!
Recently, there was a huge outage for computers that had Windows running on them, which ended up shutting down businesses temporarily and causing major delays at airports. It was a gigantic mess, and it ended up being a company called CrowdStrike's fault. They use a special driver that sits in the kernel to detect viruses and threats across the system, but a bug in its software caused a buggy update, which ended up taking down Windows machines entirely. This was a massive screw-up, and it sounds like Microsoft wants to take action.
According to a report from The Verge's Tom Warren in an article posted on July 26th, it sounds like Microsoft wants to move away from giving kernel access out so willingly. Tom reports about a blog post from John Cable, the vice president of program management for Windows servicing and delivery, where he seems to drop some hints that sounds like they want to find ways around drivers and tools using kernel-level access.
In the post, Cable mentions VBS Enclavesm featuring a way to provide an isolated environment that doesn't require kernel drivers, while also mentioning Microsoft Azure Attestation's security advancements. And from the way it sounds, they are looking into moving away from Kernel level access for tools like these so nothing as bad as the CrowdStrike opuitage happens again.
If this happens though, we could see kernel level anti cheats disappear, and I would love that. Being able to play some of these games on Linux would be massive, and taking them on the go with the Steam Deck would be incredible. There are a lot of legal hurdles to cross for this to happen, so everything is still up in the air, but one can dream! It does make it slightly more knowing Microsoft may want it as well, so we will see.
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All Comments (21)
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COD is the one game I wish I could play natively on my deck. 🤞
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Counter strike on potato? I can run that on a French fry
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I've been playing Stardew Valley on my steam deck with the new nexus mod manager built for it, and haven't had a single crash with over 20 mods even though it's in very early development. Just thought I'd let the cozy gamers know 💜
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This would be huge for Linux in general and we can finally ditch windows.
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I watch these videos to hopefully understand one day how far I can take the deck
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You've had lotsa coffee, haven't you? 😂 good vid.
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The First Descendant uses Easy Anti Cheat, and I keep getting disconnected at random intervals of playtime. I have a theory that this is due EAC because the game itself runs fine on the deck, I just get thrown into the main menu with a disconnection message (and it says Error NE:1000), so my question is... is EAC a Kernel level anti cheat?.
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We need OS sequoia on PS5 and Xbox
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You talked about Metal Gear Solid V, sounds cool, but have you ever play Metal Gear Rising Revengance?
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I hope this really happens,I really wanna play pubg & r6s on the deck.
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Glad to here about anti cheat
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Has no one realized how broken steamos is right now. I keep having problems with it
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Microsoft makes games.They aren't going to break anti-cheat by taking away kernel access any time soon.They are part of the problem. IMO
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If Destiny 2 gets forced to a non-kernal level anti cheat you bet 100% Bungie is gonna fight back and intention push steam deck users out.
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Plant vs zombies garden warfare!?! Someone please tell me if this is included
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destiny 2 can be a problem even if works on steam deck the dev's can turn it on tomorrow but the dev's anti linux they even go out their way to really ban people if they try get to play it, it's maybe why is doing so poorly as a company to self center thinking
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would fortnite be playable now?
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Glad to hear about anticheat :)
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When you see the 69 likes and it hurts to hit it.
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Are they cheating or a skill gap
