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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

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402 points _JamesA_ | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 19:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.238s | source
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jekwoooooe ◴[25 Jun 25 23:54 UTC] No.44382924[source]▶
The last missing piece for full Linux gaming is anticheat. Last I looked into it, the major vendors don’t want to support it due to lack of kernel security and the ones that do, game devs refuse to allow it (destiny for example)

One we can play AAA games I am literally ditching windows forever. Steamos is the best thing that has happened to gaming

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TheCraiggers ◴[26 Jun 25 00:05 UTC] No.44382994[source]▶
Anti-cheat today is a stop-gap measure at best. For various reasons such as improved OS security and security concerns with this software, ring zero anti-cheat won't be around forever. Besides, it's a cat and mouse game where the vendor is the mouse.

We already have the technology now to do it better. A combination of only sending what info a client should have, and server-side checks. As soon as something like UT ships with that built in we can hopefully forget about this horrible hack we currently have to check for cheats.

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hypeatei ◴[26 Jun 25 00:18 UTC] No.44383053[source]▶
As long as games are running on user hardware/OS, you'll always deal with cheating. Server-side checks and computation can only go so far.

For example: in competitive shooters (where cheaters are most prevalent) you can't have things appearing out of thin air. The client needs to know about things ahead of time to play sounds and to give other environmental hints.

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jay_kyburz ◴[26 Jun 25 00:41 UTC] No.44383165[source]▶
I've always thought the line about whats cheating, and what's not is unfair and arbitrary. How is it ok that some players can play 4k 200fps and others 1080p at 30fps.

The only way to be really fair is for everybody to Stream the game at the same res, frame rate and latency.

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1. zrobotics ◴[26 Jun 25 05:04 UTC] No.44384323[source]▶
In certain competitive environments framerate is definitely limited. Here [0] are the rules for Fallout 4 any% speed runs, framerate must be capped at 60FPS. AFAIK that rule applies to all games in this engine due to physics behavior. I don't follow tournament FPS games, but it wouldn't shock me if there are rules for competitive play there as well.

If you are asking why games like counterstrike don't have limits on online play, that's mostly a commercial question. Would those games be as popular if they limited performance to what was achievable for minimum specs? I certainly wouldn't want to play at 1920x1080 on my nice widescreen monitor, but setting the minimum to a $1500 monitor and the hardware to drive it would guarantee very few players.

[0] https://www.speedrun.com/fallout_4?h=Any-Full-game&rules=gam...

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