3 years ago
Linux players getting banned
Edit: Looks like they fixed the issue causing the bans. Edit 2: EA is reversing bans and sending out emails letting you know. Yay! Hello, I believe myself and a few others got banned for just playi...
I have a theory for why @RacsuChile was banned and hasn't been unbanned. Out of everyone, R4csu was the only user who said they had these two launch options (per R4csu's reddit post):
DXVK_NVAPI_DRIVER_VERSION=49729 DXVK_NVAPI_ALLOW_OTHER_DRIVERS=1 %command%
These launch options are directly from the LatencyFlex (LFX) documentation. They are intended for users with AMD GPUs to be able to activate Nvidia Reflex/LFX, since Reflex is greyed-out in Apex's in-game options menu if an Nvidia GPU isn't detected. However, those two launch options aren't needed if you're already using an Nvidia GPU.
I would not be surprised if the game has some sort of "graphics driver integrity check" that is failed when using those launch options, and resulted in R4scu's ban. It would explain why R4csu was banned a few weeks before most of us, and why other LFX users who didn't use those launch options haven't had issues (or at least, any more issues than the rest of us). Although after this fiasco, I'm certainly not going to be the one to test that theory, lol.
If someone from Respawn sees this: LatencyFlex is open-source and offers game-engine integration. If it were integrated directly into Apex, even AMD GPU and Intel GPU users on Windows would have access to Nvidia Reflex's latency-reduction benefits (and if my above theory is true, you'd also avoid a few accidental linux bans). LatencyFlex 2 is also in early access development.
Also @IGORS7999, if you were banned during the first accidental linux banwave, that was 5 months ago. I'm amazed you were falsely banned for that long...
Unbanned, thank you, hope that last for long now :-P