Epic Games announce full Easy Anti-Cheat support for Linux including Wine & Proton

Quoting: Zelox

Quoting: rustybroomhandleWe're about to find out how little some of these publishers/developers actually care about Linux. "just a few clicks", can they be bothered?

Trust me when I say this, its not really just a click on a button. Iv say this from experience as a software developer.
No devs dont care about linux, they care about making money. This is just a step for epic to futureproof themselves. Valve dont really care about linux at all eather. But linux is something that works great for valves ideology, invent tools that passionate people will do all the work with. The only thing valve care about is selling games, hardware and make there client futureproof. Windows is a threat for any game client, and valve is very aware of this. Windows store will probably be even harder to not use in windows 11.

Sry for sounding so negative, but Im really tired of hearing, its just a click on a button.
And this is great news :).

Well it sounds like the "few clicks" is to activate it through their admin portal, so yeah it is just a few clicks on a web site.

Quoting: einherjar

Quoting: KimyrielleNot sure why they thought it would be a good idea to make developers perform a "few clicks" to enable other platform support. Developers quite frankly shouldn't have a say about what platforms people run their software on. Just enable it for all EAC games, with no way to turn it off. :S

Hm, freedom of choice - but not for game devs?
No one should be forced to support Linux IMHO.

i think if an software took away control form the developers of where their software/game is shipped, this software would be dumped by many big companies, because its damage their capabilitie of charging for platforms like stadia to support their platforms.
unless you are big like valve and essential to their business that move could make game developers dump you.



as for counting it as freedom? i'm not sure if it counts.

Wow, didn't expect Epic do something like this for Linux lol. Great news!

Do we know which games support it now or are going to support it?

lets goooooooooo guess this means i can play rust again

I first read this as there being a port for EGS to linux and that they were integrating Proton!

But that's what I get for having a tasty margarita for lunch and a steak. Talk about food coma!

Quoting: slaapliedjeI first read this as there being a port for EGS to linux and that they were integrating Proton!

But that's what I get for having a tasty margarita for lunch and a steak. Talk about food coma!

I guess, that plumbing support for Linux in your games could be considered laying the ground work for expanded support later on. I mean why have a store support an OS that the games can't fully run on?

Nice…might mean Back 4 Blood (et alia) would be back on the table!

It's a step in the right direction. I didn't expect EA to ever go that way.

EAC is a concern on a lot of games, and it takes the pressure off EA and puts it on the devs to activate it. Remember, even New World uses EAC. Ashes of Creation uses it too I think.

It's used a lot across the board, and now the pressure is on to the devs.

Just one thing to mention.

Goodbye Windoze

but what about
https://store.steampowered.com/app/834730/Crazy_Justice/
no one will play it. they all will play fortnite

Wonder if Microsoft will show how much they love Linux when Halo:infinite drops... Assuming it uses EAC, pretty sure MC:C did.

So, what do we have here? Do we have a kernel module distributed with a shim wrapper?

Quoting: alejandro-bringasJust one thing to mention.

Goodbye Windoze

Indeed. The only reason why keep my windows partition is so I can play, maybe, three games. And those won't work because of EAC. If I can get Division 2 to work, I'm nuking my Windows partition. The thing doesn't even want to upgrade anymore. Leave it to Rob Us Blind Microsoft to design an overpriced OS that tells you to simply reinstall.


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Quoting: SalvatosNot just for Linux, but seemingly for Valve's sole benefit when it comes to supporting Wine and Proton specifically. What's going on at Epic? Maybe they intend to add Proton to their own launcher and profit from Valve's work...

I don't think it's necessarily Valve's sole benefit. Getting it to work in wine (and therefore proton) is probably more beneficial short term. You get more games working on Linux faster as opposed to trying to port to native (even if EAC now works on native).

I think this benefits every store that sells games with EAC. Valve had the biggest store and stand to gain the most through sales, some may argue they are too big. That's neither her nor there, but think of all the Steam Decks and Linux/proton installs are suddenly working; That can suddenly engage in micro transactions, etc.

I think there are a lot of benefits for everyone. I also share the idea (or hope?) that this might be the first steps to better Linux support from Epic's store.


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Quoting: RossBCWonder if Microsoft will show how much they love Linux when Halo:infinite drops... Assuming it uses EAC, pretty sure MC:C did.

That Halo collection works flawlessly in Proton, at least when I tested it last. I don't know if they really have much of a choice. If they create something that tries to detect Wine use, the coders will work out a way to hide it...


Last edited by Liam Dawe on 24 September 2021 at 2:58 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeThat Halo collection works flawlessly in Proton, at least when I tested it last. I don't know if they really have much of a choice. If they create something that tries to detect Wine use, the coders will work out a way to hide it...

To my understanding, you need to use the none eac executable and only get access to campaign and you need to use a external means to play on none official open servers.

So when it works without having to circumvent anything, to play with all other people.

Edit: Wonder how many developers will choose to tick those boxes and or whatever else they need to do, for it to happen.

Downloading Fortnight just to see if they enabled it on their own product.

DBFZ- no go currently.
Darwin Project - no go currently.


Last edited by RossBC on 24 September 2021 at 2:49 am UTC

Quoting: Rafii2198Do we know which games support it now or are going to support it?

How many (EAC using) games, have been recompiled using the required latest SDK, as well as having the Proton/Wine options enabled, and had that game update pushed via Steam, in the hours since this announcement?

I would guess ZERO.

Quoting: michaWhat a bunch of Steam from a Deck can do..

Seems Steam from a Deck can cook up a lot!
This is so great let's hope my friends will finally switch to Linux at this news this was the main reason as to why they said "no"

Quoting: x4mer

Quoting: Rafii2198Do we know which games support it now or are going to support it?

How many (EAC using) games, have been recompiled using the required latest SDK, as well as having the Proton/Wine options enabled, and had that game update pushed via Steam, in the hours since this announcement?

I would guess ZERO.

Yeah, it'll take a while. Good thing this announcement comes with still a couple months before Steam Deck launch. Should give them a bit of time to get ducks in row.