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Comment by larrik | Hacker News Reader

Unfortunately, their latest anti-cheat measures broke the ability to play on Wine.

Guess no LoL for me anymore.

They broke GPU passthrough setups as well at first. There was some community backlash and they rolled that back, and I believe they also mentioned they intended to work with the wine people on a solution for that as well.

How did it break GPU passthrough?

Then again I heard recent versions of VAC detect running under a KVM hypervisor and kick you out of CS:GO servers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17553233

That's unfortunate to hear that VAC looks for KVM. I was planning on moving my gaming partition to just a VM and using GPU passthrough. It's how I have my work PC setup, figured I'd replicate it at home.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

I plan to reverse engineer VAC sometime to figure out how the detection works.

"they also mentioned they intended to work with the wine people on a solution for that as well"

Be nicer if they'd just put the damn thing on Linux. They're already on Windows and Mac after all

This might also prevent it from running on ARM laptops with win32 emulation.

They undid that.

No they didn't. Some people use a modified client, but that's super risky for a lot of reasons.

I think the number of people playing LoL in wine could be stored in a uint8_t.

It's a lot more than that, actually. Not millions or anything, though.

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