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EA says 330,000 cheaters were stopped in beta
Or 330,000 users just without secure boot :P
How thoughtful of them to "apologize" yet keep requiring you to voluntary install a rootkit to your machine to play a video game. Some people are just Too Dumb to Live.
How does their rootkit work on a virtual machine? Have anyone tried?
It does not, they detect the VM.
Thanks. This is really crazy level of invasion. They might rather build an authorized device at that level and become hardware manufacturer.
I really don’t understand the aversion to Secure Boot, can somebody share some perspective?
It’s a setting that you toggle in BIOS and is found on virtually every motherboard from the last 12 years. Some platforms are slightly counterintuitive, requiring you the manually switch to custom keys and then back to factory key in order for it to install/activate. For booting alternative OSes, enrolling a custom key takes 5 seconds.
It hardens security of the boot process, and It’s already a requirement for Windows 11, the primary OS that most PC Gamers are already going to be choosing.
I feel like there’s a ton of bitching going on over the most minor of inconveniences that will actually prove to be a net benefit overall.
Windows 11
I do all my gaming on steam deck these days, which means every battlefield except 4 is unplayable. Idk if bf6 would have worked hardware wise but 2042 did before they turned on their new anti-cheat in an update.
I dual boot.
Why not enroll a key for your second OS?
I run a custom kernel, I have no intention if signing everything all the time.
If you use systemd, mkinitio and sbctl can sign it all for you automatically during updates.
I'd have a problem as it's been turned off since my original Windows 10 install. I'd have to reinstall if I enabled it because I installed Windows in BIOS mode. There are ways around all that, but it's a little risky.
There a particular reason you wanted Legacy / BIOS mode?
MBR2GPT makes the UEFI conversion easy and can even be run from the OS while it’s running. We get an image backup first, but we’ve never had to use it. There are occasionally complications getting it to actually run, but those are usually when the disk is full when folks have a really weird nonstandard partition arrangement.
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