How 'bout no, Scott.
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Two anti-cheat tools, TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot, will be required to play the new COD.
Oh, yes, the famous anti-cheat Secure Boot it’s an hero in the community.
I understand your skepticism, but see my other comment on topic RE: TPM 2.0
It’s basically locking down your desktop the same way your phone is locked down (unless you’re one of those nerds running GrapheneOS or the likes, in which case good on ya). Theoretically this could be good in that a totally locked environment is easier to verify and shouldn’t require kernel level anti-cheat anymore. But you know, at the expense of surrendering low level control of your hardware to Microsoft and the likes.
This is incredibly gross to say the least.
It’s all been downhill since Modern Warfare. COD 3 in 2006 was when it peaked for me back before screaming children and online unlocks.
Yeah I’m not going to do that
Two anti-cheat tools, TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot, will be required to play the new COD.
Saved you a click, if you didn’t already guess. I’m not sure how they’d be using the TPM, but there’s no reason you shouldn’t already have it enabled. Secureboot has debatable value, but if you’re on Windows having it enabled doesn’t hurt anything either.
Fucking hell … And there it is. I’ve been predicting it this whole time, the insidious reason that Microsoft requires TPM 2.0, remote attestation. DRM.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html
In the past, these were isolated incidents. “Trusted computing” would make the practice pervasive. “Treacherous computing” is a more appropriate name, because the plan is designed to make sure your computer will systematically disobey you. In fact, it is designed to stop your computer from functioning as a general-purpose computer. Every operation may require explicit permission.
It’s why the requirement and big push with Windows 11. To make this more effective you need to baseline it, and what better way than as a mandatory requirement for a mandatory OS upgrade. It’s why they don’t care about trashing all that old, “incompatible” hardware. This is the steel fist closing.
I hate to be the typical Linux guy, but get the fuck off Windows NOW. Do it yesterday. This is only the beginning, there will be more. Do you like how your phone is locked down? Do you wish your PC was the same?
If you are a PC gamer then moving to Linux can be problematic. I have run into a number of issues and probably a 10%-15% frame rate drop. Some games do run better, so depends on the game. Games like COD (that always sounds like a need to take a BM) probably have zero chance of working on linux because of the anti-cheat stuff.
I understand, and trust me, I do try to be sympathetic to the myriad issues people can encounter switching to Linux. But I’m primarily a PC gamer and I’ve been and to make do. I can play popular titles like Elden Ring and Persona 5 Royal as well as competitive titles like Trackmania 2020 (and even install all the mods I want through OpenPlanet which doesn’t have explicit Linux support).
There is for sure a cost that comes with Linux, either learning how to troubleshoot that performance issue or accepting it. But I’m advocating for an awareness of the cost of the tradeoffs staying in Windows; losing control over your hardware.
It’s worth periodically reevaluating, and not being able to play games with anti-cheat is kind of the point because the AC itself is becoming an obscene and unreasonable ask on their end.
