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Epic Games announce full Easy Anti-Cheat support for Linux including Wine & Proton By Liam Dawe - 23 September 2021 at 6:29 pm UTC | Views: 22,111 Today, Easy Anti-Cheat from Epic Games / Epic Online Services has officially announced a full expansion for Linux including native builds and Wine + Proton. This is big for Linux Gaming and the Steam Deck. For those who don't know, Epic Games owns Easy Anti-Cheat and earlier this year they made it free for all developers making Windows games. Today this has been expanded to fully support developers doing native Linux games (and macOS too). Not only that, this is the big one we've been waiting for -- they've also expanded Easy Anti-Cheat support officially for the Wine and Steam Play Proton compatibility layers. Earlier this year, Easy Anti-Cheat for Windows games was made available to all developers, for free. Today, we extend support to Linux and Mac for developers who maintain full native builds of their games for these platforms. To make it easy for developers to ship their games across PC platforms, support for the Wine and Proton compatibility layers on Linux is included. Starting with the latest SDK release, developers can activate anti-cheat support for Linux via Wine or Proton with just a few clicks in the Epic Online Services Developer Portal. Sadly it's not an automatic thing for Wine and Proton, as developers do need to actively go and do those "few clicks" but it's a huge step. In the documentation, it says how developers need to "test and activate client module updates for Linux regularly in addition to Windows". Hopefully many developers will go and do it, since it sounds like very little effort on their part. Considering just how many of the most popular games use Easy Anti-Cheat, this is the start of something massive. Have a favourite Windows game that doesn't work on Linux currently with Proton or Wine? Looks like it's time to politely ask them to hook it up. A good time to remind game developers and readers to ensure you email us news tips, especially if a game enables this to start working so we don't miss it. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com. Tags: Steam Play, Anti-Cheat, Epic Games, Meta, Wine 48 Likes Share [twitter] [reddit] [facebook] [telegram] We do often include affiliate links to earn us some pennies. We are currently affiliated with GOG and Humble Store. See more here. About the author - Liam Dawe author picture I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly came back to check on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly. See more from me Some you may have missed, popular articles from the last month: * Blasphemous: Wounds of Eventide free update arrives in December, sequel announced * Single-player arena-styled FPS Cathedral 3-D arrives on Linux * Classic 1997 adventure Voodoo Kid gets a Linux release with Boxedwine 54 comments Page: 1/6>> Go to: [1] Quote This [Arch]micha about 4 hours ago * Link [micha_avat] View PC info * Game Dev * Supporter * Steam * Twitter * Website * YouTube * facebook * mastodon * gogprofile What a bunch of Steam from a Deck can do.. [wink] 9 Likes, Who? [Pop]SuperTux about 4 hours ago * Link [SuperTux81] View PC info * Twitter That's huge! Now we need Battleeye to work with Proton, so we can have Destiny 2 :). Last edited by SuperTux on 23 September 2021 at 6:44 pm UTC 1 Likes, Who? [Pop]Sakuretsu about 4 hours ago * Link [JonasBento] View PC info Hell Yeah!!! Finally! Thank you Valve. Last edited by Sakuretsu on 23 September 2021 at 10:35 pm UTC 1 Likes, Who? [Ubuntu-MAT]Para-Gliding about 4 hours ago * Link View PC info Nice news for Apex. Test it, it's a great game 1 Likes, Who? [Mint]AussieEevee about 4 hours ago * Link [AussieEeve] View PC info Drat. As much as I want to hate Epic... this is huge and I'm loving it! 4 Likes, Who? [SteamOS]dubigrasu about 4 hours ago * Link [dubigrasu_] View PC info * Steam * YouTube So, Fortnite? 8 Likes, Who? [KDE]x_wing about 4 hours ago * Link [x_wing559_] View PC info Now we can believe that Deck will be able to run almost everything. What a time to be alive! 2 Likes, Who? [Arch]minidou about 4 hours ago * Link View PC info DBD soon hopefully 0 Likes [Manjaro]rustybroomhandle about 4 hours ago * Link [rustybroom] View PC info We're about to find out how little some of these publishers/ developers actually care about Linux. "just a few clicks", can they be bothered? 9 Likes, Who? [EndeavourO]Liam Dawe about 4 hours ago * Link [liamdawe25] View PC info * Admin * Twitter * Website * YouTube * twitch * mastodon * gogprofile 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? Well, hopefully people will use our fancy email form to notify us when games work. Tried Rust, it's a nope but I would be surprised if any worked so soon. 2 Likes, Who? 1/6>> While you're here, please consider supporting GamingOnLinux on: # Patreon, # Liberapay or # PayPal Donation. This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone with no article paywalls. We also don't have tons of adverts, there's also no tracking and we respect your privacy. Just good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue! You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you! 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