[SOLVED] Anti-Cheat KVM Settings

[Alistair_]

EAC appears to identify virtual machines by checking for the presence of VirtIO-related drivers such as virtio.sys. Due to work-related needs, I have a physical acceleration card installed on my system, and I found that even on a real physical machine, simply having VirtIO drivers installed is enough to trigger EAC’s VM detection.

After spending nearly a week investigating the issue, I discovered that uninstalling the VirtIO drivers completely resolves the EAC virtual machine restriction. What’s even stranger is that this happens regardless of whether the accelerator card is actually being used. Even if the device itself has been removed or disabled, as long as the VirtIO driver remains installed on the system, EAC still treats the machine as a VM.

I don’t use Proxmox or any virtual machine software myself, but I came across this thread during my research, so I thought I’d share my findings here.

 

[Worrier3081]

Jumping in here given I've been watching this thread. For those trying to get this to work: I can run EAC games under AutoVirt.

To Alistair_'s point, AutoVirt doesn't load any VirtIO drivers - which is why you can load games. I still have ~7 detections in VMAware but will launch fine anyway.

Proxmox -> Windows 11 VM -> Star Citizen (or VRChat) works but very slow. I've gotten a script to launch the VM under the appropriate flags, but is extremely laggy and slow. Has gotten their performance to acceptable standards? If so, happy to learn.

 

[uzumo]

By the time we got to the point of calling and running `qemu-server` via a script, the discussion had shifted away from Proxmox and was simply about Linux with AutoVirt.

As a result, Proxmox was being treated as just another Linux distribution in that context, and I think everyone—myself included—lost interest in the topic at that point...

It would have been nice if it had at least run without affecting Proxmox at all.

If you want to engage in active information exchange, I think the best approach is to find more people who are doing the same thing (or to share your own information to attract more people), but there probably aren’t that many of them.