This should also affect Planetside 2, and I'd really love to see it working

BattlEye currently doesn't function at all on wine, however there is someone on reddit working on fixing that.

I understand this isn't Proton's problem, but I think this is actually a crucial thing that should be fixed with Proton. This has been an issue with Wine for a long time and it seems like no one has really developed a fix for battleye. Considering how many games run the anticheat, I think it would be necessary for the project to have this fixed one way or another.

Also seeing this issue!

I believe this might also be a issue for ARMA3, it does have BattleEye for Linux with a test build of the game but they lack a few features such as launcher options and MP compat with Windows users.

It was stated in the steam announcement post that some anticheats would render impossible the compatibility. BattleEye is so aggressive that they even blocked reshade a few months back. Doubt we will ever see those titles work with wine.

Maybe some guys (pun unintended) from Valve or CodeWeavers could help Guy1524 in making BattlEye work on wine, maybe they would work together?

Same for DayZ standalone.

This is the same for the PUBG.
I think Battleye should open up a little bit since it's a big problem for a lot of games, which makes it impossible to play them.

Hello, I would like to mention a few things:

Right now I am focused on submitting my current Battleye work to wine before I proceed. Also, now that school is started progress will generally be slower, as I am only working on the weekends.

@oleksandrzelentsov People have tried contacting Battleye about this issue before, and their position is that they will only support native linux games.

@m4sk1n Plagman (valve dev) has expressed interest in working with anticheat developers to get it working under proton. This solution would probably be more sustainable in the long term.

Given that Battleye has native support on Linux, maybe the wizards over at Valve can find a way to do some kind of Battleye passthrough for Steam Play games to connect it with the native version of Battleye. Running Battleye in Wine would be nice, but I am afraid that could also lead to people being banned without cheating.

@Lyle-Tafoya Hmm, that's actually pretty interesting. I think it would also be worthy to reach out to the Battleye team and see if they will make room for Wine in their support so we can officially have support for the anticheat on their side.

This way, we can avoid false-positives, and have good support in Wine. Now, we just have to convince them to actually go through with that...

Planetside 2 gets to the launcher now, battleye though... tries for an undetermined long time to launch it and the log file has various dlls showing there. I added some through winetricks and those dlls dont really show at the end of log file anymore. Can't find all dlls that show there in winecfg.
env WINEPREFIX="/mnt/tera/Games/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/218230/pfx" WINEPATH="/mnt/tera/Games/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Proton 3.7/dist/bin" winetricks

I understand the sentiment in this issue (I would love to play Planetside 2 again), but trying to work around anti-cheat system is pointless - they will be updated faster than workarounds for Linux will appear. The only way forward would be to start a conversation with Battleye devs about supporting Proton officially. They already can detect, that game is running inside Wine.

Implementation of some kind of whitelist/integration of anti-cheat systems into Proton is tracked here: #1468

I'd like to provide an update on the state of my battleye work. A month ago, I got the battleye driver's anticheat loop running. Once the game client attempts to connect with the driver and submits an interupt, there is an internal error, and the game I am testing refuses to proceed. I am currently taking a break, but if anyone else experienced wants to pick up where I left off, my work is here: https://github.com/Guy1524/wine/tree/battleye-work

No news on it ? would like to see player unknow battelground but battleye is a pain in the ass

@edneyhelene FWIW even when battleye starts to work, PUBG has another preventing it from launching.

I am really missing out playing Planetside 2. The battleeye anticheat starts but keeps on loading and the game never launches :(

Now cant play ATLAS on official servers.

Tested on Proton 3.7-8, 3.7-8 Beta, 3.16-4, 3.16-6 Beta, 4.2-9, 4.11-2.

@redpiller, these patches don’t make BattlEye work, they just make it fail in further steps…

Person here claims to have gotten PUBG to work by running it via the windows version of steam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa_TwN-daEA

@philipjohnbarlow I'm sorry to uh, reply

but,

that video shows 0 proof that it's actually running on linux
and if it was real, it'd be pretty big news already.

so I'm sure it's fake and you shouldn't trust a video like that which doesn't show ANY evidence that it's actually what it claims to be.

Yup my thoughts as well, theres no pre-start up footage. Thought I'd share anyway just in case there was even remotely any validity in the claim.

Doesn't battleeye work with ark?

Doesn't battleeye work with ark?

Ark has a native Linux build and uses the native Linux version of BattlEye. This thread is regarding compatibility with the Windows version of BattlEye via Proton.

@kisak-valve Any updates on the BattlEye progression in Proton, or is Valve still ignoring it?

Alright, let's wait some more.

@philipjohnbarlow Check out looking glass here: https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass
This is likely how the guy in the video achieved "linux support" of pubg
(tl;dr: It's not supported, it's a VM with direct passthrough access to the GPU so it will run, looking glass allows you to see what the passthrough GPU renders on the host OS)

Just commenting to say i'd love to see PlanetSide 2 support.

Since we got Arma 3 running well enough over Proton, BE is the only thing missing.

+1 for BE Proton support

Pls BE devs, make it happen.

Yes ARMA3 seems to work quite nicely, but the BE driver doesn't initialize thus servers using it just kick you :(

I'm going to try wine4.6 with my custom proton compat profile once a lutris build comes out (I just copy over the wine files to my proton profile I made).

BattleEye also will be useful to run "Heroes & Generals" using proton

Survarium seems to work now (at least under proton-tkg), so it's just BattleEye that's preventing it running I guess.

There is some hope:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/bn2t8v/battleye_is_working_with_valve_to_add_support_for

https://imgur.com/a/g8CJQL5

So Hey, I have a question if any wine developer or Valve employee happens by...

I know wine used to work with battleye once some SMART and kernel access stuff was patched in until they adapted and started recognizing wine's presence, it allowed the anticheat to wrap the executable successfully as far as I could see and see you were on some real hardware.
With the modifications to the wine backend that build more DLLs as a Windows PE is this a full solution to masking wine's truck sized signature? Is this all that needs to be done to "pretend" you're windows or is there still a mountain ahead?

big update: With proton 4.11-1 battleye works in arma.

Thanks valve & be

really? nice. I dunno if it works in empyrion yet, gotta do some major testing this week as got a while new CPU/RAM cooling kit.

as it turns out, Empyrion uses EAC

Almost everyone seems to experience crashes exactly 15 minutes after joining a BattlEye enabled arma server.

Maybe there is something that can be logged? battleye log?

@Preisschild a PUBG enabled server? or are you talking abour arma? after installing pubg using steam I don't even get a loading screen. (Proton 4.11-2)

Yeah I got that 15min crash with BE ARMA3 server.

XD, I was so excited thinking that I can no play PUBG on Linux..., any idea on when they will do the same to PUBG?

In regards to Arma 3, some people are able to stay in the server beyond the 15 minute mark. I've tried a bunch of different things to see if I can get it to work. Changing Kernals to match theirs, graphics settings, forwarding ports from my router and disabling firewalls. Steam beta on and off. I've also tried reinstalling battleye probably 5 times already. I installed some obscure "Fix" from a youtube channel for windows users having trouble. Nothing has worked for me so far, I'm gonna keep reinstalling battleye as sometimes windows users seem to have the problem of getting kicked every 15 minutes, and their fix is just to reinstall battleye until it works again.

Interessing enough i'm trying to work on a solution for battleye while playing escape from tarkov under lutris using proton 4.11. As far as it go, just locks at "Starting Battleye Service..." while it initializes, when the process BEservice.exe is killed, it goes that installed successfully and presents a new error "Failed to initialize BattlEye Service: Driver Load Error (31)."

@haterino nice to see some more escapers trying to get it running. Me and a few others got a discord server where we share some ideas and try to get it running (didn't do too much since the BE update has been released, but got quite far with getting rid of the startup lag and crashes before). I will send the link as soon as the owner says he is fine with that.

Here it is: https://discordapp.com/invite/uASUreY

Any news ? :)

@JanGalek it works for a few people on few servers in arma 3

EAC and BE driver injection/loading is probably something that needs fixing at the WINE level, hopefully valve devs can submit some fixes for it, we have already seen a few which is why it sometimes works atm.

Not just at WINE level, also might need some work at Linux kernel level… Actually, the best way would be to work with anti-cheats authors (they do), but implementing more and more low-level APIs is always a good thing

There is a C api for such things, the only thing wine needs to to is to hook up to the kernel API and translate the calls as it would normally do with any other program

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would it be possible for developers to support the native battle eye on linux but the game is running in proton so they don't need to port the entire game? like no man's sky its not a linux game but the developers update it with proton in mind

It wouldn't be the most streamlined aproach...

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linux but the game is running in proton so they don't need to port the
entire game? like no man's sky its not a linux game but the developers
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They would need to put some code in that detects proton/wine/linux and thus plugs in the linux battleye libraries instead. Not sure how well that would work. Developers are unlikely to do this anyway.

Perhaps a better approach for proton would be to detect battleye dll's and redirect to the local linux versions instead.

Please fix for Arma 3

Please fix for Rainbow Six Siege

Somebody block this troll

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ive found a fix, install windows

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@JanGalek it works for a few people on few servers in arma 3

With the server I want it still crashes immeadeately.

any update??? It would be great if we can play PUBG on proton

I don't think so. We are all waiting for some form of support to EAC and Battleye.

There is a experimental Kernel patch for Wine stuff that may allow for anti-cheat software to work in the future if merged.
I don't think its been accepted or merged into mainline yet, once that happens it will be news worthy.

lets hope it gets merged! I haven't played pubg since it launched lol. It's just sitting in my library

is there a repository for this experimental kernel

I would like to build it

BattlEye work for 1 month and last 2 days ago, i have error "Failed to initialize BattlEye Service: Driver Load Error (31)." with Arma 3 on Proton 5.0-9.

That's very interesting @StidOfficial hmm

Just tried it with PubG. Same error.

BlackSquad please

BlackSquad please

What do you mean?

BlackSquad please

What do you mean?

i believe it is a game from steam that's use battleeye as anti cheat rsrs :laughing:

Probably the best way to fix it : <Link removed by moderator>

Hello @StidOfficial, no, that workaround is plain cheating. There's nothing there that could be considered a fix which can be used to improve support in Proton.

He not even said it's a workaround or even a solution, just the best way in the sad reality.

Not to improve support in Proton and I don't encourage anyone to cheat, but would be curious to see whether the battleye-protected games would work without other issues after bypassing this piece of shi of battleye

Probably the best way to fix it : <Link removed by moderator>

Really sad this Link gets removed. Sad that you're supporting a system repressing you.

Probably the best way to fix it : <Link removed by moderator>

Really sad this Link gets removed. Sad that you're supporting a system repressing you.

You do realize this is an official Valve repository right?

Probably the best way to fix it : <Link removed by moderator>

Really sad this Link gets removed. Sad that you're supporting a system repressing you.

@bionade24 they work for Valve. They would rather get a solution that would both satisfy BattlEye by giving them root-level access to our Linux machines and provide us with working games

At WineHQ this hopefully gets discussed more open: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37355
Edit: Maybe more appropriate than spamming into system internals: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45124

At WineHQ this hopefully gets discussed more open: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37355

Not sure. Shortly after Guy1524 published his set of patches that correctly implement all the checks required by EAC, they made some server-side changes to prevent EAC from working with Wine. BattlEye would likely do the same

At WineHQ this hopefully gets discussed more open: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37355

Not sure. Shortly after Guy1524 published his set of patches that correctly implement all the checks required by EAC, they made some server-side changes to prevent EAC from working with Wine. BattlEye would likely do the same

:(
Don't know, but the hack @StidOfficial provided attacked them at IPC level. Probably harder to patch permanently.

A realistic solution to this problem: Linux gets a working FLOSS anti-cheat for Linux and the Games only work if the binary is signed. A realistic compromise?

oh cmon, we all know, Linux user are not cheater

lol

oh cmon, we all know, Linux user are not cheater

Yeah, even the devs probably know that Linux users just wanna enjoy their spare time but we're live in a world where management doesn't care. Or maybe it's because they know that we know that calculating all physics on the server would make cheating impossible but won't do that for profit reasons.

oh cmon, we all know, Linux user are not cheater

Yeah, even the devs probably know that Linux users just wanna enjoy their spare time but we're live in a world where management doesn't care. Or maybe it's because they know that we know that calculating all physics on the server would make cheating impossible but won't do that for profit reasons.

I am very curious, can you please explain how calculating all physics on the server would make impossible aim-bots, wall hacks, map hacks etc.?

@darutoko it's harder for the player to make changes on the server side than the client side.. a player can easily change stuff on the client side.. however a server side anti cheat can't detect changes made on the client side but can detect stuff going on in the server because of the client side changes/hacks.. but for that server side anti cheats should be very strong also using proxy is very great on server side.. so that if a player tried to figure out the server address.. he would only see the proxy server address not the actual server address.. however server side anti cheat has its own risks of someone figures out to make client side changes that server side won't be able to detect it can caus alot of issues.. it's like having high risk high reward.

@darutoko it's harder for the player to make changes on the server side than the client side.. a player can easily change stuff on the client side.. however a server side anti cheat can't detect changes made on the client side but can detect stuff going on in the server because of the client side changes/hacks.. but for that server side anti cheats should be very strong also using proxy is very great on server side.. so that if a player tried to figure out the server address.. he would only see the proxy server address not the actual server address.. however server side anti cheat has its own risks of someone figures out to make client side changes that server side won't be able to detect it can caus alot of issues.. it's like having high risk high reward.

I dont' understand why you wrote this. In this text wall there is no explanation of how calculating all physics on the server would make impossible aim-bots, wall hacks, map hacks etc. How for example wall hack (texture and model manipulation) is affected by physics calculations?

oh cmon, we all know, Linux user are not cheater

Yeah, even the devs probably know that Linux users just wanna enjoy their spare time but we're live in a world where management doesn't care. Or maybe it's because they know that we know that calculating all physics on the server would make cheating impossible but won't do that for profit reasons.

I am very curious, can you please explain how calculating all physics on the server would make impossible aim-bots, wall hacks, map hacks etc.?

The server can determine which actions can physically be done and which not. (E.g when you went trough a wall you get banned.) Or when you aiming is way to good for a human (human can have good aim but will have at least certain stuttering on the target. Finally, you can calculate which opponent a player could have seen when. Tactical cheating would still be possible, but you can also e. g. do that in CSGO when you're in Teamspeak with a dead player giving tips.

oh cmon, we all know, Linux user are not cheater

Yeah, even the devs probably know that Linux users just wanna enjoy their spare time but we're live in a world where management doesn't care. Or maybe it's because they know that we know that calculating all physics on the server would make cheating impossible but won't do that for profit reasons.

I am very curious, can you please explain how calculating all physics on the server would make impossible aim-bots, wall hacks, map hacks etc.?

The server can determine which actions can physically be done and which not. (E.g when you went trough a wall you get banned.) Or when you aiming is way to good for a human (human can have good aim but will have at least certain stuttering on the target. Finally, you can calculate which opponent a player could have seen when. Tactical cheating would still be possible, but you can also e. g. do that in CSGO when you're in Teamspeak with a dead player giving tips.

@bionade24 lol
Your answer is even funnier than i thought it would be, thank you.

I shared this link for create a pipeline to the actual battleye linux client (because he doesn't need kmod like bedaisy.sys).
This link doesn't talk about cheating but emulation of BattlEye and this informations can help us to port BattlEye on proton (wine).

If the issue is locate on "MmMapLockedPagesSpecifyCache" good new.

Problem still not resolved?

I so much whises this issue will find a proper solution in the future.
Steam and BattleEye seemed to have been talking to each other but so far... no nothing.
The best thing would be to not allow any kernel level anti-cheat for steam game thus avoiding any to strong application installed and make the proton compatibility so much simple.
I do not like cheaters in any online game as much as the next fellow but we have to be true about it. No anticheat has been anything but effective... being CoD Warzone, PUBG or Fortnite no one succeed against cheaters despite very intrusive detection software... game developers should focus on server anticheat instead of trying to install spyware on our hardware.
They will never be able to control user hardware even on console the cheat is placed between the gamepad and the console...

In ARK: Survival Evolved, this is an even bigger problem because the game's Linux build is completely broken and unusable, and the developer has absolutely no intentions to fix it. BattleEye works in said Linux build, except the game itself is unplayable in many ways... so Linux users are forced to run the game via Wine instead.

I have created a steam support ticket and got redirected to this page. @Storm-Engineer said all what i had to say actually. We need fix for this BatteEye thing i sense its the only thing blocking Linux community to prosper in gaming industry. Proton is a mayor thing that happened to us and because of it i finally got rid of Windows ( i will not return to it even at this stage ). I have yesterday sent a email to BattleEye support team about it but unfortunately still no response.

BattleEye should be installed by default, when games are installed on Linux, ever since it concerns paid games (not free of charge) like Insurgency and Day of Infamy

Perhaps valve should look into banning new game releases which contain battle eye and release a formal statement about it. This will kill Battle Eye's new market opportunities.

Treat them the way they treat other platforms which are blocked by their software.

It's clear they're not invested in a developer solution or even offering a branch which could be pursued by bigger companies if they need Linux support even if they offer financial incentives.

@RevoluPowered that would only make other stores more competitive

Perhaps valve should look into banning new game releases which contain battle eye and release a formal statement about it. This will kill Battle Eye's new market opportunities.

Treat them the way they treat other platforms which are blocked by their software.

It's clear they're not invested in a developer solution or even offering a branch which could be pursued by bigger companies if they need Linux support even if they offer financial incentives.
@RevoluPowered

That's not only a horrible business strategy, but that harms Valve's economic model. Its also horribly anti-consumer, direct opposition to Linux methodology, (being foremost volunteerism) and a vengeful solution would make them just as ethically and morally repugnant as every single big name publisher that everyone hates. Going down that road is a slippery slope especially in business and after you open that can of worms once, you can almost never close it.

That's not only a horrible business strategy, but that harms Valve's economic model. Its also horribly anti-consumer, direct opposition to Linux methodology, (being foremost volunteerism) and a vengeful solution would make them just as ethically and morally repugnant as every single big name publisher that everyone hates. Going down that road is a slippery slope especially in business and after you open that can of worms once, you can almost never close it.

Good point I agree, but for now what are the alternatives?

I toyed with making an executable tool to strip / jump across battle eye entirely so people could actually run the game on linux.

I think for games like Arma 3 you could do this without problems because battle eye can be disabled as a requirement on servers, but some other games which rely on their servers it wouldn't work / fortnite.

Is anyone actually working on this?

THREE GOD DAMN YEARS

Is anyone actually working on this?

Really no reason to ask this, this issue is clearly not dead, the problem has mostly been a Linux kernel problem before anything else, which is starting to make it more feasible to work on this with the latest experimental kernel version, but that just got released about a week ago, and running experimental kernel versions is not practical, most especially to dev on or play a game with, we have to wait until 5.11 is stable at least, shouldn't be long but its still going to take a bit, you gotta be patient man. (even then we probably won't see a change in Proton or Wine for a little while on this front until mainstream distros start defaulting to 5.11, or at least a while after its stable, kinda pointless to dev a feature heavily when you have nobody to test it and use it, especially when its bleeding edge)

Syscall User Dispatch has nothing to do with anticheat.
And it's not a kernel problem before anything else. That's also a biggie to be sure, but first of all wine's ntoskrnl has to gain support for a lot of functions.
And then maybe you can start poking at BE.

Valve can't do anything much about it even if they somehow manage, there may be a great risk to be flagged/banned. As stated (i think), Valve will/work with BE but is up to BE to support such case. I feel that because it's opensource, and you can modify WINE as you like, that is a big concern for the BE.

Syscall User Dispatch has nothing to do with anticheat.
And it's not a kernel problem before anything else. That's also a biggie to be sure, but first of all wine's ntoskrnl has to gain support for a lot of functions.
And then maybe you can start poking at BE.

While its not a specific target, its likely part of a puzzle piece solution, some anticheats operate on a similar level as DRM in this specific instance, (and I'm pretty sure BattleEye was one of the ones where this applied, though correct me if I'm wrong) and they've been hampered just as badly, (not to mention most mainstream invasive anticheat games also incorporate some kind of DRM anyway, or the anticheat is basically the DRM) so I think its worth mentioning.

Is anyone actually working on this?

Really no reason to ask this, this issue is clearly not dead

I respectfully disagree. The issue is pretty old, has no assignee, and the last response from a Valve dev was 2019 January. As such, I have no way of knowing if this is being actively worked on, or it is being set aside because other issues are deemed a higher priority. And thus, I asked, hoping that if it is being worked on, a dev may reply to let us know.

The comments here are definitely active but that does not tell anything about if it is being worked on by the developers or not.

Valve can't do anything much about it even if they somehow manage, there may be a great risk to be flagged/banned. As stated (i think), Valve will/work with BE but is up to BE to support such case. I feel that because it's opensource, and you can modify WINE as you like, that is a big concern for the BE.

Other companies and anti-cheat systems have absolutely no problem with Wine players, and this includes both Valve Anti-Cheat and Blizzard Anti-Cheat. The whole notion that it would somehow be easier to cheat with Wine, is just not true - unless we are talking about some extremely bad and shitty anti-cheat. If it is well written - and given BE is widely used I assume that for the most part it is, or at least adequately written - then Wine should pose no threat.

And I mean, BE is not trying to block Wine users from playing, they just doN't care to put effort into supporting it. (The only anti-cheat I personally know of that purposefully blocks Wine users is Epic Anti-Cheat... but then Epic is an asshole company as we all know.)

And Wine is not trying to trick anyone, while it mimics the Windows environment for programs to work, it does not try to pretend to be real Windows. Programs can easily see that they are being run under Wine, and behave accordingly.

EAC doesn't block wine. They just have a check to load their special gimped wine-specific version that some games have opted into (which of course fails when instead the developer didn't).
And just like BE they do support native linux anyway.

It's just that the authentication/integrity infrastructure windows has is nowhere to be seen. Wine by itself runs entirely in userspace, making bypass super easy, and you can't blame anyone here.
It's not impossible to solve this, but it's super complex and not even worth discussing when anyway wine is so much broken in supporting the windows kernel apis.
So please, just stop spamming. And wait.

SQUAD and MORTAL2ONLINE with EAC work with Proton, but you may need to download the verification files yourself as there is a bug in proton where EAC tool fails to fetch the verification files, and can even delete them for some reason.

As for BE, yep its a BIG BIG issue, I want to play games like Tarkov and ARMA3 but can't because I cannot figure out how BE works.

EAC FYI has OS flags on their server which devs can enable. Linux is WINE64, Windows is WIN64, and MacOS is probably OSX or something... I guess there is ARM ones and others also. The EAC files of WINE64 and WIN64 are identical btw, you can grab them from your windows EAC folders and copy them right over.

PS. None of these Anti Cheat methods seem to fully stop hackers/cheaters, I've talk to these people on Discord and its still very easy to work around these anticheat methods as many have probably suspected. Sure it can require the simpletons from cheating, but as hack/cheat tools (all on windows btw, Linux is not source of hackers/cheaters) advance they also make it easier for people to do.

Vote with your money, don't buy games that requires BE.
Kernel level anti-cheats/DRM shouldn't be used on any OS (they don't work anyway, I'm talking about you Valorant).

Vote with your money, don't buy games that requires BE.
Kernel level anti-cheats/DRM shouldn't be used on any OS (they don't work anyway, I'm talking about you Valorant).

This statement is not helpful. A huge number of people already own these games long before moving to Linux. Also EAC has taken steps to help devs support wine/proton/linux (optional) and there is a Linux based BE client with hopefully more support down the line for proton.

https://www.protondb.com/app/218230 https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/5295
Even though no official statement of the developers, the game currently runs fine using the latest Proton-GE version with Proton BattlEye Runtime installed.

@jarrard would be better to put discussion about PS2-specific issues in the dedicated issue #5295.

hey guys i am trying to run the epic's version of ark on wine 7.0 but it says this Failed to initialize BattlEye Service: Driver Load Error (1053). As far as i know ark should work with battleye

... still not fixed .. holy crap.

BTW, Destiny 2 via Steam on FC37 also affected.

This issue is as much fixed as it can be. It's up to the individual game devs to enable Linux support. Destiny's developer explicitly decided against supporting Linux/the Steam Deck. If you want to complain, direct your anger towards them.

Planetside 2's developer did enable it for example and BattleEye works flawlessly. Better than on windows actually.

There's still some games, like Escape from Tarkov, that lacks the required function to get everything working (in case of Tarkov it's playing online), but yeah.

for me this issue is pretty easy. just don´t buy/play a game which does support linux one way or another :) there is literally 10 thousands of games out there that all run on linux... if a specific title of a specific genre does not work, just take a competitor... EASY

Does battleeye runtime allows you to play PUBG these days?

PUBG doesn't allow Battleye and its two other anticheats to run on Linux.

for me this issue is pretty easy. just don´t buy/play a game which does support linux one way or another :) there is literally 10 thousands of games out there that all run on linux... if a specific title of a specific genre does not work, just take a competitor... EASY

Yes, all or nothing approach is legit, but ... still .. it is in humans nature to desire for things :)