Easy Anti-Cheat is, as the name implies, a cheat prevention tool. It's utilized by a massive amount of online PC games to prevent hackers from becoming too prevalent, including the likes of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Fortnite, Fall Guys, Dragon Ball FighterZ, and others. Due to the number of games that make use of it, it became a concern, as the upcoming Steam Deck would need to support Easy Anti-Cheat in order for any of the games to function on the device. Developers were uneasy about the situation, too, believing it to be a difficult process to enable on games.

Fortunately, both Valve and Epic Games, the latter being the owner of Anti-Cheat, have worked together to ensure that it's as easy as possible to get those games running on the Steam Deck. Today, Valve will begin testing EAC titles that have enabled Proton support and adding them to the Steam Deck compatibility list.

That's it for today. We're very excited to be able to make this announcement as it means partners can continue to use their existing cheat prevention tools while adding support for more amazing games on Steam Deck. Please let us know in the forums if you have any questions.

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[RedoLane]

Ah, I figured there was a catch.

 

[tpax]

Good news. I hope I'll get a mail in the upcoming days from Valve, finally allowing me to give them my money.

 

[Noctosphere]

Good news!
But not for me... i only play single player games....

 

[Deleted member 194275]

Today's news: Steam Deck will support DRM.

Seriously, the thing is a regular PC that will come with a Linux distro pre installed, this news should be: Steam OS supports easy-anti cheat.

On side note, I got to mess with steam OS this weekend, and there is work to be done there... like, a lot... (and this will not affect the Deck since it will run other distros and windows)

 

[ZeroFX]

Eac is bs, but good thing now more games will be playable on steam deck and proton.

 

[Kioku]

I'm actually concerned we're talking about the Steam Deck like it's a separate console from the rest of the PC crowd. I get having "Steam Deck Verified" games running. That's one thing... but it's a Linux OS. So, if EAC games will work on Steam OS, they'll work on any Linux distro. It's misleading, and kind of irritating.

 

[Rahkeesh]

I'm actually concerned we're talking about the Steam Deck like it's a separate console from the rest of the PC crowd.

All according to (Valve's) keikaku.

 

[Working_Goose]

European (Austria) here.
Have someone experience with Klarna?
I wanna buy the Steam Deck with Klarna, but my big Question is, can i pay it with Rates?

 

[McPringles]

This functionally means nothing, since devs still have to ship a specific Proton-compatible version of EAC with their game. Odds are less than 25% of them will; adoption of the previous Proton-friendly version was roughly zero percent.

 

[Kioku]

This functionally means nothing, since devs still have to ship a specific Proton-compatible version of EAC with their game. Odds are less than 25% of them will; adoption of the previous Proton-friendly version was roughly zero percent.

https://boilingsteam.com/enabling-eac-support-on-linux-now-easier/

Well, if these three steps ring true, it's a lot easier now. At least for Steam games.

 

[Crashdummyy]

This functionally means nothing, since devs still have to ship a specific Proton-compatible version of EAC with their game. Odds are less than 25% of them will; adoption of the previous Proton-friendly version was roughly zero percent.

Sure about that ?
Id assume eac ships an API that is to be called frequently and correctly.
In Case they dont break their userland in every Update and eac itself does Not have to be Aware of Proton ( why should IT anyway? ) they dont have to ship some special Version

 

[tpax]

European (Austria) here.
Have someone experience with Klarna?
I wanna buy the Steam Deck with Klarna, but my big Question is, can i pay it with Rates?

Klarna Ratenkauf works fine. You can pick how many rates you want to pay at the check-out.

 

[Working_Goose]

Klarna Ratenkauf works fine. You can pick how many rates you want to pay at the check-out.

oh fu yeah, nice!

Thanks, i knew that Klara can use Ratenkauf (are you german? Hallo Kumpel ;D ), but if it possible on Steam i dont know

 

[the_randomizer]

Yay! More invasive DRM!

 

[Marc_LFD]

The d-pad, right analog stick and buttons look like it'll cramp hands. Hopefully that's not the case.

 

[Kioku]

Yay! More invasive DRM!

A necessary evil in online gaming. Even if it doesn't work 100%, it's still far better than 0%. The other option is to abolish PC gaming entirely.

 

[the_randomizer]

A necessary evil in online gaming. Even if it doesn't work 100%, it's still far better than 0%. The other option is to abolish PC gaming entirely.

I get it for multi-player but single?

 

[Xzi]

Probably not gonna use it for online gaming much myself, but support for more games is always a good thing.

 

[Reploid]

Good news!
But not for me... i only play single player games....

You still need to have it installed with the game, even if you only touch singleplayer content