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Comment by digitalPhonix

3 months ago

Games with anti cheat :(

Well at least you should then have that on a dedicated gaming machine - treat it like a console. Not the same box you do your surfing, socials, banking and coding etc on. I think the intersection of people who can afford a rig for competitive online gaming but can't afford to keep it separate should be very small. Or at least put the gaming in an isolated Windows VM with GPU passthrough (fun times with anticheat). Git gud.

  • I wish I was good enough for competitive gaming. It’s just where my friends hang out - I shouldn’t need a separate machine/boot just to play games with friends

    > Or at least put the gaming in an isolated Windows VM with GPU passthrough

    That’s a guaranteed ban by most anticheats

    • > I shouldn’t need a separate machine/boot just to play games with friends

      Yet here we are... It's not safe to trust a modern rootkitted Windows gaming setup with sensitive personal stuff and will become less so moving forward.

      Your best bet is treating it like a console and do your real computing elsewhere.