Issue Description: Trying to start Darktide in a VM is prevented by EAC complaining about being in a VM. Steps to Reproduce: Set up a Windows VM Install Darktide Try to run Darktide Reproduction Rate: Constant (100%) Upload Supporting Evidence: I would link to my closed beta thread about the same issue but that entire sub forum has been hidden or deleted.

That’s funny. And entirely wrong. Even EAC doesn’t have an issue with it unless the developer explicitly disallows it.

And just to be clear: Anti cheat doesn’t work. Playing in a VM does not make you more or less likely to cheat than anyone else. This would be trivial to circumvent, but comes at a heavy performance penalty so I’m not going to bother. This is literally one setting for EAC that has to be changed. This is a co-op game. As far as I’m concerned you can just ditch the snake oil alltogether.

This is true; my roommate and I have played several EAC “protected” games despite him running a VM and I running on “bare metal.” There are plenty of reasons to run a VM for gaming and cheating on a CO-OP game is the least likely imho.

Yeah, examples for EAC-protected games that work with 0 issues are Smite, Elden Ring and Vermintide.

I’ve notified our developers of this issue.

There are no console logs. I’m assuming the game itself writes those, and it doesn’t even load because of EAC.

Honestly from a cheating perspective I feel vms should be disallowed if they can be detected. Anti cheat is much less effective with virtualization.

Sure. As soon as there’s a Linux version of the game in question. Also anti cheat isn’t effective either way.

Hi, Just bumping this thread as I’m also experiencing this problem. Right now, I’m working around this by just running the game natively on Linux. However, I believe DLSS does not work on the proton version. Additionally, I’m getting a few crashes and wanted to see if running on Windows resolved the issue. I also don’t have the “Console log” asked for above. To be clear, the game never launches I believe. The launcher starts the game, but the game quickly exits during EAC initialization. here’s the launcher log and a screenshot of what I see. [darktide] darktide_launcher.log (10.6 KB) When I click “exit”, I get a crash report. Here’s the info on that. GUID: e2040fe6-65f8-4b15-9705-f5a19b50715e Log File: Info Type: Thanks!

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FatsharkJulia November 19, 2022, 4:38pm 9

Do you have a recent console log you could upload, please?

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EAC still prevents running the game in a Virtual Machine

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