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  • So I tried looking into it, but all I can find is this same user (go $fsck yourself) had some comments deleted by him about 6 months ago. I didn’t actually comb through the modlog to see what the deleted comments contained, I’m not sure how feasible it is to review the modlog going that far back.

    I couldn’t find any actual proof of wrongdoing, the closest thing to evidence is that screenshot of Liam saying he thought it was stupid that modlogs were public. I also didn’t find anyone else complaining about him as a mod, literally just this same guy copy pasting this comment on a ton of different gamingonlinux lemmy posts for the past 6 months.

    Liam complaining about public modlog does sound like he got caught abusing mod privledges, but I’m leaning towards it just being between him and this go $fsck yourself user rather than widespread abuse.







  • Running in the kernel let’s anti-cheat see everything on your computer, let’s devs take screenshots or videos of your screen, and let’s the anti-cheat reinstall itself if the user tries to remove it. It also lets the developers secretly install additional software if needed for some reason. Overall it’s pretty effective at being able to catch user space cheat programs, the catch is that you’re permanently compromising the security and privacy of your computer, and nothing short of a full disk purge will guarantee it’s actually been uninstalled.

    The other catch is it’s can still be defeated by kernel-level cheat programs, which are now widely available thanks to the rise of kernel anti-cheat. It also can’t do anything about cheat programs that run on external hardware, such as aimbots that just look at your video feed and simulate mouse inputs to aim.

    So it really comes down to how bothered you are by cheaters in your games, and if you’re willing to give up your privacy and security to make it slightly more inconvenient for those cheaters to cheat.



  • What windows components are you trying to install using protontricks/winetricks? Also is this the steam version, or from a different store?

    Edit: I’ll go ahead and post some things to try:

    • In protontricks or winetricks (depending on if you’re using proton or wine to run the game), select the prefix for that specific game (has to be correct prefix or it won’t work), select “Install a windows DLL or component”, and then try installing vcrun2022. There are different versions of vcrun depending on the year, so if that one doesn’t work maybe an older one might.
    • Try running the game with GE-proton, installable through ProtonUp-Qt in the discover store. It comes with a lot of extra libraries and components, and it will let some Visual C++ games run without requiring anything else.
    • Try installing visual C++. There are a couple ways to do this, you can download the .exe for it and run it through protontricks/winetricks. Launchers like heroic also add an option to run a different .exe file, which should work too if you’re running the game from a launcher. If you’re having trouble finding the right prefix or otherwise getting protontricks/winetricks to work, you can also just put the vcredist executable in your game folder, copy the game executable file name, and then add “.original” to the end of the end of the game executable file name. Then rename the vcredist executable to have the game’s original file name. When you run the game, this will instead run the installer for visual c++. You can then go delete the c++ installer, remove “.original” from the end of the game’s executable file, and try it again.











  • First, I would go to https://packetlosstest.com/ on your deck in desktop mode and see if it shows any issues. They have some game presets you can pick to hopefully test network traffic use similar to the games you’re having issues with.

    Once you have a baseline test of how your internet is performing, some basic things to try to improve it are:

    • Reboot deck and wifi router.
    • Switch between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz
    • Try playing closer to the router and see if the lag goes away.
    • Disable the wifi power management setting on the deck

    Even if nothing has changed with the Deck and router, it’s possible another device in the house is causing interference, especially on 2.4Ghz networks. If the problem is something else causing interference, it can be really confusing to troubleshoot from the network side of things because the problems will be very intermittent.