Game Guard breaks Focusrite audio

[JD_Wolf]

Hello, I'm hoping someone from Arrowhead or Game Guard actually looks here for issues, but we'll see.

I used to have this EXACT same issue in Battlefield 2042 with EA's new kernel anti-cheat while running my PC audio through a Focusrite Scarlett (18i8 gen 2). When running the game for a while, I have experienced my microphone getting messed up, until I restart the game, as well as my PC main output (running through the Focusrite Scarlett) getting all kinds of screwy sounding. It's unbearable and makes the game unplayable.

I have started messing with my device's 'buffer size' setting to attempt a work around that previously worked in BF2042, with no luck so far. What had to happen for Dice/EA to fix their issue was to link up with Focusrite in their forums who facilitated getting something white-listed through the anti cheat; maybe their drivers, I'm not sure. I saw the Focusrite community team show up in the EA forums asking to be able to submit drivers to EA for white listing, at least.

Something similar needs to happen with Arrowhead and Game Guard. I'm having the exact same issues and the common denominator is kernel level anti cheat. NO other games or applications have EVER had this issue before using kernel anti cheat, and it has ONLY happened to the games that implement it. 2042 eventually patched in their fix, so can Arrowhead.