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.
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.
Definitely better to get away from windows. I have an Nvidia Gpu, which is probably part of why I see the frame rate drop. I can still boot into Win10 to play some games, but really don’t do it that often.
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
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.
Definitely better to get away from windows. I have an Nvidia Gpu, which is probably part of why I see the frame rate drop. I can still boot into Win10 to play some games, but really don’t do it that often.
But that enables their anti-cheat to run at kernel level, and that is a large vulnerability.
Secure Boot and TPM were always about DRM. This is worse than Denuvo and we should not be okay with it.