Re: Battlefield 2042 Linux & Steam Deck EAC support

Probably not natively but Valve's proton is sounding promising for compatibility with windows games.

Directly from Dice, not as far as i know, but Valve are working on getting battleye and EAC working under proton (their wine version for the steam deck) so it should be possible once/if Valve gets EAC running.

If a native client is released then there's already native EAC support, but afaik there's no linux client coming.

Can track it here if you're interested;

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog

The problem i see here is that steam seems only to launch origin. 

Linux support for this game is needed and should be available without using Steam.

Just a quick update to this thread and other linux-related ones as i saw this earlier today.

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/easy-anti-cheat-now-supports-the-steam-deck/

So, that should in theory mean proton/wine and BF2042 is a go.

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@frantayps wrote:

The problem i see here is that steam seems only to launch origin. 

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@frantayps I've been out of the Linux game since I returned to gaming but does Wine or a similar program allow Origin to launch? I swore that @StarscreamUK was gaming on Linux.

@ragnarok013Was going to just type it out, but the fact that it turns out forbes has done a linux gaming faq i just have to...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2021/09/15/linux-gaming-guide-how-to-easily-install-and-update-proton-ge/

Also, re Origin;
https://games4linux.su/en/games-en/wine-en/442-origin

(short short version, yes)

Yea, now that EAC is confirmed and Battleye is (probably) next to be confirmed, I'll be doing some testing of my own soon.

Only problem is my old testbed is now a 9-year old's gaming PC, and getting her off slime rancher and FFXIV is not going to be pretty.

(thankfully, she has no idea what dual boot is and can't throw that back at me. Yet.)

Exactly 👿

Hence why the 9-year old will stay completely ignorant of that option until i figure out if it'll brick the bootloader on my own box or not!

Might just save us both some trouble and test it on a VM on my nas just to see if it runs first, i think playable framerates are out of the question on a 7-year old opteron with integrated graphics even if it was running native. (and i think asking for a unix/truenas client might be pushing it).

@ragnarok013@FringerunnerSo are you guys trying to run it natively within a Linux distro or within a VM? I had not considered some of the use cases you have mentioned…

edit - I think @Fringerunner just answered my question..  lol

@ragnarok013 it was running fine with lutris 2 years ago, dont think that changed. Only problem was EA / DICE banning linux players. 

See working BF titels here: 

https://www.youtube.com/c/GloriouseggrollTv/search?query=battlefield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzzYFh7ro2A

for reference. 

Since then the Lutris team with Gloriouseggroll on board pushed it very hard and it got better with every update. 

Problems i had back in the day where 25% less performance then on a native windows and Origin pushing out Beta Clients which broke the wine / origin install every 2-3 weeks (complete reinstall only fixed that). 

And this is where i see the problem, as far as i see it, steam only launches origin when you start battlefield. 

yes @ play a lot on linux.  (I weirdly got better performance on bfv on linux than on windows (thanks vulkan 🙂 ) but eac had always been an issue, if it all pans out, then windows can be forgotten about as far as I go.  It's only for the oddball titles than Im using win 11 atm....

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/battleye-anti-cheat-confirms-steam-deck-support/

And that's two.

Might see if i can get destiny 2 running since it uses battleye now while waiting for the BF beta, though the "opt in" part seems... odd.

Guess I'll be checking if Bungie has "opted in" before i risk the account!

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@StarscreamUK wrote:

yes @ play a lot on linux.  (I weirdly got better performance on bfv on linux than on windows (thanks vulkan 🙂 ) but eac had always been an issue, if it all pans out, then windows can be forgotten about as far as I go.  It's only for the oddball titles than Im using win 11 atm....

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@StarscreamUK what are you using, proton, wine etc?

mainly proton, but for anyone wanting to try and unsure, use lutris, it handles most of the installs and dependencies.

To be frankly I am not going to install Windows back just for this game, so I will not buy it untill/unless Linux would be supported one way or another.

we at least know now that it works without EAC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9R8ObsAX5E