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Is it possible to translate windows kernel calls to linux ones (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hi ik wine can translate userspace calls but i wonder if its possible to translate windows kernel level calls to linux ones (eg,kernel level anticheat,etc)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

then if it translates kernel calls why cant some kernel level anticheat run

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Anticheat isnt solely about kernel calls. Anticheat systems, depending on what one you are referring to, will inspect runtime memory, data loaded into RAM. It will do a number of things to verify memory isn’t being modified (which cheat engines, among other things, need to do).

Simply, Wine and linux load applications differently, anticheat systems see the difference and assume something nefarious is going on.

Its not as simple as just running anticheat in wine.

edit some additional info from a pretty old article

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/5/22709918/valve-steam-deck-supported-games-anti-cheat-proton-eac-battleye-epic

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

oh i thought its just translating the anti cheat calls,ty for the detailed explination

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

sadly, no. Anticheat Systems are designed to be paranoid as fuck. So even some readout of the hardware used that WINE handles a tad differently than Windows might trip it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

oh yeah some anticheat can ban you for playing games on your pc

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