Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville
I see there is some EAC support in Wine, is it included in Proton Experimental? https://twitter.com/0xdt0/status/1276286612654227458
I see there is some EAC support in Wine, is it included in Proton Experimental? https://twitter.com/0xdt0/status/1276286612654227458
They have an internal proton build that they're testing the anticheat stuff on.. They are aiming to bring it out before steam deck is released. (which would be helpful for bug fixes in advance of the launch).
@LeJimster great news! so hopefully before the end of the year :) my son is really desiring this game :P
is anticheat now available? https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Easy-Anti-Cheat-Linux
I'm happy to hear that Proton 7 is now released, but it seems still EAC is not enabled in this game as I've just tried and got the same EAC error
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Proton-7.0-Released
I have the problem with the Origin version 😕
Plants VS Zombies Battle For Neighborvile
Issue transferred from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6282.
@NeedsArt posted on 2022-11-01T06:39:26:
Compatibility Report
- Name of the game with compatibility issues: Plants VS Zombies Battle For Neighborvile
- Steam AppID of the game: 1262240
System Information
- GPU: NVIDIA Corporation Device 2482 or 3070ti
- Driver/LLVM version: nvidia-driver-520 Version 520.56.06-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 NVIDIA driver metapackage
- Kernel version: 5.4.0-128-generic
- https://gist.github.com/NeedsArt/f788a1f504e98763ad0c9738cb4f0cab
- Proton version: Experimental + 7.0 - 4
- OS Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon
I confirm:
- [x] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
- [x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.
Log = https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DZxasQq2vC8c48aIQ_qNnLbHRjz8dPUi/view?usp=share_link)
Symptoms
Reproduction
use an ubuntu based OS
use commands DXVK_HUD=1 PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1 %command%
should come up with the direct x error
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if PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 is used it causes this problem. my issue is no longer relevant. the easy anticheat problem still remains. game boots but with performance issues
The game is now broken due to easy anticheat. It worked but after a reinstall which also caused the switch from Origin to the new EA Player launcher the game complains about failed EAC.
The game is now broken due to easy anticheat. It worked but after a reinstall which also caused the switch from Origin to the new EA Player launcher the game complains about failed EAC.
And now its perma borked due to ea kernel level malware.
Is this still possible to solve?
Is this still possible to solve?
I'm afraid not, since they switched this game to EA Anti-Cheat from Easy Anti-Cheat
Can confirm the error and the fact that adding EA Anti Cheat is the issue. But it appears that they're still using Easy Anti-Cheat, and that it seems to me that EA Anti Cheat itself uses Easy Anti-Cheat. The file "EAAntiCheat.Installer.Tool.exe" directly contains the Easy Anti-Cheat installer, so it seems to me to be a dependency.
I'm also wondering if support for games using this Anti Cheat may be possible, since other Anti Cheats that I thought were also kernel-level appear to be supported by Proton (though I may be mistaken).
[Bug report] Inconsistency with game dll loading
Issue transferred from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/9392.
@Twig6943 posted on 2026-01-11T13:12:14:
Feature Request
Make it so that RtWorkQ.dll loads consistently
I confirm:
- [x] that I haven't found another request for this feature.
- [x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available that
contain this feature already.
Description
Plants vs zombies battle for neighborville doesn't run on linux out of the box but it does offline with <Link removed by moderator> thing is on linux they load inconsistently. Most of the time the game will open up but give a black screen and you gotta open winecfg in the same prefix go to libraries and press okay and that makes it boot only for the next time you open up the game
I've already tried adding in WINEDLLOVERRIDES=RtWorkQ=n,b;rtworkq=n,b %command%
Justification [optional]
Wine users wont be doing this amount of trickery with games?
Risks [optional]
References [optional]
Here's source for another dll that makes the game semi offline which also works on linux but is also inconsistent (this requires some PRE-EAAC files of the game as well like the last dll) (makes it so that people with the dll can play together)
For those that want to use it, grab the dll from releases of this github, and then use steamdepotdownloader to download old version of the game and replace .exe
I'll submit correct details for manifest in a bit for now I can say the sha256 for the right exe is: 8c05c12e2ddc38525b99d09eee72d0e6f7238896c545c90c15e292ba242f99e5
Replying to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/4978#issuecomment-3734629807
Same issue happens on garden warfare 1 this dll when you rename it to rtworkq.dll . It loads consistently with wine but inconsistently with proton idk why
Proton versions
proton 7.0x1 2022-02proton experimentalx2 2021-07
Launch options
WINEDLLOVERRIDES=RtWorkQ=n,b;rtworkq=n,bx1 2026-01PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1x2 2022-11DXVK_HUD=1x1 2022-11PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1x1 2022-11
Launch lines
WINEDLLOVERRIDES=RtWorkQ=n,b;rtworkq=n,b %command%x1 2026-01DXVK_HUD=1 PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1 %command%x1 2022-11
Upstream links
- ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/9392x1 2026-01
- ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6282x1 2022-11
DLLs
rtworkq.dllx2 2026-01
Compatibility Report
https://www.protondb.com/app/1262240
System Information
I confirm:
Symptoms
Anti-cheat error, game exits after it.
Reproduction
Just launch game