[EasyAntiCheat] Cannot run under virtual machine

[feel-my-pain]

Hi everybody,

I tried to start the game on my win10 VFIO PCI passthrough virtual machine, but I was not able to. Why do we have to block all the players playing from a virtual machine? I think it does not really help against hackers, who use DMA hacks anyway.

[TemmieNeko]

Originally posted by feel-my-pain:

Hi everybody,

I tried to start the game on my win10 VFIO PCI passthrough virtual machine, but I was not able to. Why do we have to block all the players playing from a virtual machine? I think it does not really help against hackers, who use DMA hacks anyway.

" all the players "
now, if you dropped the S from that player word; your sentence would be 100% accurate.


vis-a-vis : who the heck games on a virtual machine that isn't DOSBOX or some ancient as heck OS that doesnt work on modern pcs anymore?

chances are.. theyre not gaming my friend.

[Purple Monkey]

Why can't you just play it on Steam?

[feel-my-pain]

Originally posted by TemmieNeko:

" all the players "
now, if you dropped the S from that player word; your sentence would be 100% accurate.


vis-a-vis : who the heck games on a virtual machine that isn't DOSBOX or some ancient as heck OS that doesnt work on modern pcs anymore?

chances are.. theyre not gaming my friend.

There are a lot of people like me who are playing from a virtual machine using a PCI passthrough, look up for "VFIO" or "Looking Glass", I'll drop some links here.

https://looking-glass.io/
https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/
https://discord.gg/f63cXwH

Originally posted by Purple Monkey:

Why can't you just play it on Steam?

I am playing just on steam, but EAC will not allow me to play since my gaming rig is virtualized, which is ridicolous in 2022. Most of the cloud gaming platform are virtualized, and a lot of home windows PCs are even virtualized, for "Virtualization Based Security".

[Costco Executive Member]

Originally posted by TemmieNeko:

Originally posted by feel-my-pain:

Hi everybody,

I tried to start the game on my win10 VFIO PCI passthrough virtual machine, but I was not able to. Why do we have to block all the players playing from a virtual machine? I think it does not really help against hackers, who use DMA hacks anyway.

" all the players "
now, if you dropped the S from that player word; your sentence would be 100% accurate.


vis-a-vis : who the heck games on a virtual machine that isn't DOSBOX or some ancient as heck OS that doesnt work on modern pcs anymore?

chances are.. theyre not gaming my friend.

I have several friends who do this, isn't not suspicious. In one case it just lets a guy use his gaming rig at work which is awesome.

[Kode.Ex]

Originally posted by Alpharius:

Originally posted by TemmieNeko:

" all the players "
now, if you dropped the S from that player word; your sentence would be 100% accurate.


vis-a-vis : who the heck games on a virtual machine that isn't DOSBOX or some ancient as heck OS that doesnt work on modern pcs anymore?

chances are.. theyre not gaming my friend.

I have several friends who do this, isn't not suspicious. In one case it just lets a guy use his gaming rig at work which is awesome.

which begs the question... why are they doing this at work?

[feel-my-pain]

I was able to bypass this stupid check thanks to the VFIO community. Still I think it should be disabled by the developers.

[Costco Executive Member]

Originally posted by Kode.Ex:

Originally posted by Alpharius:

I have several friends who do this, isn't not suspicious. In one case it just lets a guy use his gaming rig at work which is awesome.

which begs the question... why are they doing this at work?

What are you a cop? Cuz ♥♥♥♥ capitalism

[GOB]

I am also suffering EAC block.I Use unraid server software(linux) and im running Win10 with gpu passthrough aswell. I just thought i would check this game out since they added Rick and Morty but.....well, plenty of other games to play in my backlog i guess.

[Winblows]

a lot of anti cheats try to block vm users, you have to trick the game into thinking you arnt on a vm, maybe this anti cheat actually cracks down on vms, since for some reason theres a million different versions of anti cheat

[no dice]

i was confused on why i was getting this error up until i realized that they are different across different games that use EAC.

disappointing for sure but i'm not buying a console just to play the game because someone somewhere said

"oh you know that virtual machine flag? Yeah just enable that and say ♥♥♥♥ you to anyone who uses anything other than windows on baremetal*

crying shame

[Winblows]

Originally posted by Chicken Tendies:

i was confused on why i was getting this error up until i realized that they are different across different games that use EAC.

disappointing for sure but i'm not buying a console just to play the game because someone somewhere said

"oh you know that virtual machine flag? Yeah just enable that and say ♥♥♥♥ you to anyone who uses anything other than windows on baremetal*

crying shame

you can try downloading different easy anti cheat files, but you might be banned/ perma banned

[no dice]

Originally posted by Skrif:

Originally posted by Chicken Tendies:

i was confused on why i was getting this error up until i realized that they are different across different games that use EAC.

disappointing for sure but i'm not buying a console just to play the game because someone somewhere said

"oh you know that virtual machine flag? Yeah just enable that and say ♥♥♥♥ you to anyone who uses anything other than windows on baremetal*

crying shame

you can try downloading different easy anti cheat files, but you might be banned/ perma banned

i'll check the vfio community eventually.

[Norzka]

here are some solution which I will try since I got the same problem:
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/127639-easy-anti-cheat-launch-error-cannot-run-under-virtual-machine/
https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/cpf96e/feature_policydisable_namehypervisor_greatly/

[ToastyMannシ]

Originally posted by TemmieNeko:

Originally posted by feel-my-pain:

Hi everybody,

I tried to start the game on my win10 VFIO PCI passthrough virtual machine, but I was not able to. Why do we have to block all the players playing from a virtual machine? I think it does not really help against hackers, who use DMA hacks anyway.

" all the players "
now, if you dropped the S from that player word; your sentence would be 100% accurate.


vis-a-vis : who the heck games on a virtual machine that isn't DOSBOX or some ancient as heck OS that doesnt work on modern pcs anymore?

chances are.. theyre not gaming my friend.

Most likely Linux users. They run Windows under a VM because they prefer Linux for their general PC needs while most PC games only support Windows. These anti-cheat systems like EAC and BattlEye exclude Virtual Machines for some reason which can annoy a good amount of people who just want to play their game.

[Tendie]

Originally posted by TemmieNeko:

Originally posted by feel-my-pain:

Hi everybody,

I tried to start the game on my win10 VFIO PCI passthrough virtual machine, but I was not able to. Why do we have to block all the players playing from a virtual machine? I think it does not really help against hackers, who use DMA hacks anyway.

" all the players "
now, if you dropped the S from that player word; your sentence would be 100% accurate.


vis-a-vis : who the heck games on a virtual machine that isn't DOSBOX or some ancient as heck OS that doesnt work on modern pcs anymore?

chances are.. theyre not gaming my friend.

Ignorance speaking loud and clear.

I personally run run Windows under a KVM VM because I have complete control over my hardware that way instead of being forced into a Windows host where all virtualization solutions offer mediocre performance because there is no KVM equivalent in the Windows kernel. A KVM VM allows you to send different PCI devices to different VMs. I for example have a dual GPU setup with an Nvidia GPU that I use for gaming and an AMD GPU I use for motion graphics (After effects) and rendering. I have specialized VMs for my activities (Video/Graphics work, Web development, gaming, banking/shopping). To imply a virtual machine user is "not gaming" (where you're probably nodding towards cheating) only demonstrates your lack of knowledge regarding the usecases and utilites they provide. Even the dumb-it-down folks at LinusTech have shown the benefits of using Linux/Unraid as a host FOR GAMING.