Do you play Battlefield V on Linux? Then you get banned

While gaming under Linux may be easier than ever, there are still companies that don’t need to know anything about it. EA is such a party. The company’s game portal, Origin, is not available for Linux, but luckily tricks allow Linux fans to play some of the games under the open source operating system … until now.

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Electronic Arts has started to permanently ban gamers who play Battlefield V under Linux. The company uses an anti-cheat system and sees software as a cheating game under Linux.

Playing EA games under Linux has always been a hassle. The game manufacturer does not support the operating system at all and tricks to play the games under Linux do not always work well. Fortunately, playing non-Linux games is getting better thanks to tools such as WINE, PlayOnLinux, CEDEGA and Lutris, but Electronic Arts is now stopping that.

Linux gamers have been complaining for a few days at the Lutris forum and Reddit that they will get a permanent ban if they play Battlefield V under Linux. The problem seems to lie with FairFight, the anti-cheat software from EA. Linux gamers use WINE in combination with DXVK. This software converts Direct3D calls to Vulkan so that games using DirectX can still be played under other operating systems. Unfortunately, EA’s anti-cheat software sees the modified Direct3D DLLs as manipulating Direct3D libraries, which is seen as cheating. That is why EA sees the bans as legitimate and Linux users can no longer enter them.

Electronic Arts was not available for comment.

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