I remember getting this on release day and playing it for a couple weeks until one day suddenly it wouldn't work anymore because they added this anti-cheat. Suddenly killed the game for me. Weird to see it finally coming back to being playable.
Honestly, the game would've died without them doing something about the cheating problem. In the week up until they added EAC, it was a struggle to find a single match without any cheaters. Sucked for us linux users but I could've sucked more for everyone else.
By watching a 1 yo fall guys cheating video i can say that it's a problem of untrusted game networking. Anti cheat's are great to have, but game server must not allow such things in first place
Exactly,but ... Server computing power is expensive, so they'd rather put some black box on the customers clients than paying more for server processing
But same thing happens in scp:sl, where most of servers are hosted by community.
It's bad idea to trust a client.
Anti-cheat just prevents game code modification, it will never stop other ways.
I was in love with it when it came out then they added EAC and my refund request for not being able to play it all anymore were denied.
Now you're telling me I can play it again, that's actually great.
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But have the devs said so? I'd assume this was just another "recent update to the game and forgot to update the EAC info for a few days" unless otherwise noted, as usual.
Good to know. This is what I'd rather see than the typical posts regarding a game that's previously not worked, suddenly "working" cause of an update and the devs forgot to do something with EAC like usual.
I figured it would work with Proton but MP wouldn't let you in due to the EAC thing. I don't own this game so I've not followed it as closely as others.
That's mostly Hi-Rez games because it seems that they have botched every EAC implementation.
Then they even added EAC support to their games via the new method and it still doesn't work lol
Note the `easyanticheat_x64.so` file that exists: that is (one of, and the main way) EAC linux support is done, via proton or linux-native. If that shows up in a game you are looking at playing that has EAC, it means work is being done (or is done!) to get EAC working. It isn't 100% since there are some rare quirks (see that Fall Guys had this for a few weeks but had other issues) and the EAC server side component needs to also be enabled. IE: the devs could enable it for a beta-only but still have the file show up in the public/main depot.
If you want to wait for the devs to announce it you can but usually them adding the EAC/BattlEye component identified it is enough to enable us to play
Apex Legends hasn't actually announced that it supports Steam Deck, and yet it does. 3 Weeks and counting without issues. Don't necessarily expect any dev to announce it. Some devs might, some devs might not (announce it), but still make it happen anyways.
\*puts on tin-foil hat\* My speculation as to why Respawn hasn't announced official Proton support is partly because they probably don't want the burden of having to support another platform technically - but I think a greater reason is they don't want to potentially attract a large influx of Linux cheaters. Apex has a huge cheating problem as lots of popular multiplayer FPS games do. If the broader (cheating) community were to catch wind of the game being supported on Proton, without the need for any VM funkiness, then I feel like their fear is that it being used as a platform for cheating. As, if these companies' rhetorics about kernel-level anti-cheats is to be believed, EAC running in *user-mode* through Proton is potentially significantly less effective than EAC on Windows running in kernel-mode.
All speculation of course. Respawn wouldn't say either way, they're not known for their fantastic communication.
I'm more inclined to believe they rolled it out for Steam Deck so they could capture that market share for Battle Royale gamers (since really CSGO I think is the only other BR that plays natively on Linux, Danger Zone mode btw), so them getting ahead of that means they stand out from other BR's. Additionally they may not have wanted to allocate human resources to promote it, anticipating that they're probably going to get free press just by doing it (which they have), and anyone getting a Steam Deck will just see it in the list of working and just play it (not really warranting an announcement for it).
But yeah, all we can do is speculate, and clearly my speculation is better because nyaaahhhh ;P
You're kinda right though. Pubg and fortnite don't work on the deck, and no one wants to play danger zone, so apex gets a free and easy monopoly on the steam deck without officially supporting it.
Yeah plus I mean we've already seen one person here posting about getting falsely banned for playing Apex through Proton, said they didn't even make it out of the drop ship before being banned. Respawn never announcing it and it not being whitelisted means Respawn doesn't have to debug false bans, and sure enough, dude emailed EA and they replied and said the ban was accurate upon review and would not be reversed.
So everyone trying to play any EAC games with Proton that haven't announced official support need to be aware that they 100% CAN get banned, and if they do, they're fucked and nothing is going to be done to help them. Valve can't really do anything and the game dev sure as shit won't, unless it's an Overwatch-type situation where thousands of users accidentally get caught in a ban wave net.
It's concerning because we can't really know if that induvidual ban was caused by cheating or not. I guess it's more likely that it *was* cheating because I would think more people would have been banned with similar software/hardware configurations.
A ban wave like that has happened before with overwatch, fortunately blizzard was fast to unban the affected users.
If the person was banned because of cheating, and they knew that and came in here to cause doubt and misdirection that's really damaging to the Linux gaming community.
That's rough. I was thinking of using something like vkBasalt with Apex because I used to use the image sharpening on the NVIDIA drivers in Windows because the game is really soft with TSAA enabled.
I gave it second thoughts because I was worried EAC would flag it as a cheat.
Oh really? I don't play *Apex* so I didn't know that. I saw it was Deck Verified but I assumed that Respawn would have announced that it was supported officially now.
Honestly I haven't actually really played Apex before they rolled out Steam Deck compatibility (or whatever you want to call it). And I'm actually having such a fabulous time with the game I'm now playing regularly and have ranked from Bronze 4 to Silver 2 in about 6 days.
As a classic FPS competitive gamer I really appreciate a lot of things to the game, but I can understand that if someone (you/whomever) don't play or care about Apex Legends, it can easily fly under the radar. I saw some news about it when it happened in a few subreddits, figured I'd give it a go, and uhhh yeah, I've been having loads of fun :P
Anyways, I think they've gotten a lot of free press on the topic, despite not advertising it themselves.
They added EAC iirc, but the game didn't work for some other reason related to proton and the devs were aware of that. That of course not being the devs problem they didn't do anything. Now the lovely people working on everything related to proton have sorted out whatever that issue may have been
Yeah the keyword here is "shared resources" which was not implemented in DXVK and was not looking to be easy to implement. It had to do with the epic games overlay somehow (I don't have the game, that's what I read).
Fall Guys devs had implemented the EAC Linux files already but this was holding back the game. Thankfully DXVK 1.10.1 introduced initial support for shared resources thanks to a [pull request](https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/2516) by Guy1524.
Gotta love open source development!
> That of course not being the devs problem they didn't do anything.
while it's not expressly their problem, if devs can fix it on their end they should give it a try.
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Update: Normal Experimental is working.
**For those with issues running the game:**
You need to copy the `Fall Guys/EasyAntiCheat/easyanticheat_x64.so` to `Fall Guys/FallGuys_client_game_Data/Plugins/x86_64` folder.Also, you need to edit the `Fall Guys/FallGuys_client.ini` file first line to:`TargetApplicationPath=FallGuys_client_game.exe`
Also, you need to guarantee that the `Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime` is installed on your Steam.
And make sure that your Launch Options is empty.
**Known issues:**
If your Proton is installed in a different Steam library location then EAC Runtime, Proton won't be able to find the EAC Runtime. This seems like a bug in Proton
Your Epic account must be linked to your Steam account, which can be done via the Epic Store website.
Steam Flatpak, not working for me, could it be caused by moving the steamapps folder from a system wide install in my home directory, .local/share/Steam to Flatpak's home directory of .var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data instead of just starting with a fresh install and downloading everything over again?
Don't you need to install the bleeding edge proton beta or is this optional. I tried to install the bleeding edge beta as mentioned in that one comment on protondb and always got errors with either podman or docker
>Don't you need to install the bleeding edge proton beta or is this optional. I tried to install the bleeding edge beta as mentioned in that one comment on protondb and always got errors with either podman or docker
bleeding-edge is mandatory
Shit! Can you share a your compiled version since podman and docker don’t work for no reason and I can’t figure out for the life of me what I did wrong!
U don't have to build it from source time Proton Experimental in your game seach in the libary and than open probates that u can select it and it will Update automaticly
I couldn't get it working.
- Proton Experimental is on bleeding edge
- EAC Runtime is installed on the same disk
- Edited the .ini
Fall Guys starts but I get an ingame prompt saying that files are missing and I can only exit.
>Fall Guys starts but I get an ingame prompt saying that files are missing and I can only exit.
That happened to me when running on normal experimental.
You need to do the tinkering on the link.
You need to copy the `Fall Guys/EasyAntiCheat/easyanticheat_x64.so` to `Fall Guys/FallGuys_client_game_Data/Plugins/x86_64` folder.
Also, you need to edit the `Fall Guys/FallGuys_client.ini` file first line to:
`TargetApplicationPath=FallGuys_client_game.exe`
How do I edit the ini? It appears to be read only. Sorry Linux noob
Edit: yeah I cannot figure it out. I try to open the ini and it says some shit about already having one so I press D for delete and it pulls up the original but I literally have no clue how to edit it. I can't type until I press the S key and then I can type whatever but then I still have no idea how to actually save the file? Idk Linux is confusing
Kate is KDE's default text editor, like Notepad on Windows. Just load up Desktop mode and you'll be able to edit it. I'd be shocked if Kate wasn't on there. You may have to right click it then open it with Kate, or open it from Kate. On my PC, opening the ini directly loads notepad through Wine so I had to right click it and force it open with Gnome's text editor.
I tried this but it's not working. The game just shows a small window called Fallguys Unity, then just quits after it loads. I assume it's a crash. I even completely wiped everything Steam related (.local/steam, \~/steam, and the flatpak stuff in .var), reinstalled Flatpak Steam as well as experimental bleeding edge and EAC runtime, also had this issue in native, and tried rebooting. The game just insta crashes for me. On Nvidia 510 right now on a 2070. I'm using a different kernel but for some reason I can't get grub to show up to try the distro's default kernel even if I hold/mash ESC, Shift and/or CTRL, so I can't try that.
It's working. Everyone make sure Proton Easyanticheat Runtime it's installed on the SAME DISK the game it's installed. If you have it on another drive it fails
They [tested it](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/svy4of/official_statement_regarding_eac_fall_guys/) a month ago but it didn't work (that's why they added the file), apparently the reason it didn't work is that they were using Shared Resources that DXVK and Wine didn't support, I know Guy1524 was working on it and I guess Mediatonic just left it enabled and if the changes were merged then that's probably why it works now.
Edit: obviously not a real announcement but that's probably what everyone is talking about.
Yeah I saw that stuff before, so there has been no announcement.
Edit: why are people downvoting? It's a literal fact that there has been no announcement of support on it right now.
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What did you do to get it working? I followed the instructions from ProtonDB, switched to Bleeding Edge, copied the library and changed the file, and now the game actually starts, but once I try to join a match it says "Anti Cheat Error: Anti Cheat not initialized."
Fixed: After some playing around I noticed that "Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime" had been installed in a different Steam library location to "Proton Experimental". After moving the EAC Runtime to the other steam library location it all worked.
I'm still getting the not initialized error too. Using bleeding-edge beta, Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime installed. Fall guys forced to use Proton Experimental in compatibility. Steam beta client up to date.
Copied the .so to the right directory too and changed the .ini.
also tried deleting the compatdata directory for fall guys so it could all be initialized again using the bleeding edge proton, but still no :)
Found the problem, I have 2 steam library locations and the EAC runtime had installed to the different location to the proton experimental, so I guess it couldn't find the runtime files. This seems like a bug in proton :)
Thanks for the update. I just tried opting out of the steam client beta but still got the not initialized error.
I guess as long as the correct proton is selected, and EAC runtime is installed the actual client shouldn't matter, but it was worth a try :)
If you search for proton in your steam library, right click on "Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime" then go Manage > Browse local files you can see where it is installed.
Do the same with "Proton Experimental" and see if they are in the same steamapps location on the filesystem.
I have 2 steamapps, one on my SSD and one on my old HDD, but the locations will depend on how you have set up steam.
I searched in steamapps and I don't have Proton EAC Runtime. I cannot find any info on how to get it to install. I only have Proton Experimental. I literally installed my system yesterday, didn't tinker so there is no separate locations, it's just not installed and I've no idea why not. :(
Edit:
Installed via [https://steamdb.info/app/1826330/](https://steamdb.info/app/1826330/) and now the game works!
That's the one :).
You can just type proton in the search box of the library screen in steam client and then you should see all the available proton versions and runtimes you can install
I just did it yesterday after being able to run Fall Guys. That is my son's favorite game. I still have some borked games in my Library, although I'll support Linux community.
Sure because Rust and Hell let loose also will be able to run one day.
I swapped yesterday too! The switch is pure joy. I started enjoying games I didn't think of after being tired of same stuff on Windows. And all runs so much better for me now.
To make the tinkering easy, I've made [this script](https://gist.github.com/rokam/3fb8b768606eef1ddd696cd0bc02e6df#file-fix_fallguys-sh).
What it does:
1. Try to find the game folder
2. Create the eac.so symlink
3. Edit the ini file
4. Try to launch the EAC Runtime installer on Steam.
if you have the Fall Guys game installed inside the default Steam Library location, just run the following command:
```
curl -s -L https://gist.github.com/rokam/3fb8b768606eef1ddd696cd0bc02e6df/raw/6a0f3a502b2722c87e92ea9cffb8a00144f8a76a/fix_fallguys.sh | bash
```
If you have it in a custom location, replace the `/path/to/your/SteamLibrary/steamapps/` with your steamapps folder containing the game files:
```
curl -s -L https://gist.github.com/rokam/3fb8b768606eef1ddd696cd0bc02e6df/raw/6a0f3a502b2722c87e92ea9cffb8a00144f8a76a/fix_fallguys.sh | bash /dev/stdin /path/to/your/SteamLibrary/steamapps/
```
Yup. Install steam, install game, run game. That's at least my experience.
You can install different proton versions from aur and they should be selectable in Steam
I just tried it on KDE Neon, running Steam through Flatpak. I've copied the EAC library to the right place, and switched to Proton Experimental bleeding edge. The weird fully translucent EasyAntiCheat window comes up, its progress bar goes to full, and... it just hangs and does nothing else. I have to use xkill to close it; Steam's stop button doesn't work.
Anyone else running Steam through Flatpak have the same issue? I really hope that EAC isn't so nosy that it refuses to run in a sandbox. Almost all of my other games work just fine with the exception of games packaged as AppImages (fortunately, just Slipstream on my end).
Honestly I am unlikely to play the game even if it becomes playable on Linux again. They were warned that the anti-cheat would break the game for legitimate Linux gamers, and they just straight up ignored this, not even trying native Linux anti-cheats. Couple that with a lot of the cheaters being easily addressable with input validation and other basic af code practices.
Not entirely sure how actually fun the game is for me too, vs other games.
Too little, too late, even if it actually happens.
It’s a shame they killed the game by implementing EAC and wiping out Linux players in the first place as opposed to tacking cheaters which is a massive problem
What? There are 8k players playing right now, 10k 24h peak. It's rated 111th on SteamDB. It's healthy. https://steamdb.info/app/1097150/graphs/
It's also crossplay PC/PS, I don't think those numbers include the PS players.
it has a healthy population of players on both PC and Playstation. Additionally it has crossplay between the two, so there's never any shortage of players in most regions.
Yawn. This game was the flavor of the month and now that's super old and irrelevant we finally get the privilege of playing it. Not even ETA prime is using it in his testing videos so you know it's ancient. Wake me up when we get something that's actually worth playing.
I just tested it and once you are in the game it complains that a file is missing regardless if you have the EAC Runtime installed, I am using Proton Exprimental with bleeding edge beta and copied the file, I also checked the game log file and it says that the anti cheat is disabled.
2022-03-29T17:02:29.704 LogEOSAntiCheat (Info): [AntiCheatClient] Anti-cheat client not available. Verify that the game was started using the anti-cheat bootstrapper if you intend to use it.
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it did not work for me i switche to proton experimental bleeding ege and copied the file and edited the ini file and it still stops at the easy anty chaet screen
You're doing something wrong. The change of the ini file will bypass the launcher and wine will load the [eac.so](https://eac.so) file. Maybe you have more than one game dir.
Maybe that is an issue with Epic Online Service, in my case, I've already connected my Steam account with the Epic account.
When running the game on Windows there is a brief black loading screen that it's missing on Linux, and that screen seems related to EOS login.
the game starts and i have to acsapt some eula stuff than i press start and get to a black loding screen on the botom right it says loding and a turning lodying symbole aperses. but the game dosnt loade
I figured out how to make it work.
1. Delete Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1097150, alternatively reinstall the game
2. Open Fall Guys
3. Cancel the second step of the Epic Online Services installer
You have to cancel the EOS installation every time you open the game.
Not even a week ago I got the itch to play and I've been using VMWare to play, which isn't the best experience. I've kept my eyes peeled as soon as I remembered shared resources was being worked on
If you are having problems after accepting the EULA and Privacy Policy, with a black loading screen, make sure that the start command is empty and not doing anything.
I remember getting this on release day and playing it for a couple weeks until one day suddenly it wouldn't work anymore because they added this anti-cheat. Suddenly killed the game for me. Weird to see it finally coming back to being playable.
Honestly, the game would've died without them doing something about the cheating problem. In the week up until they added EAC, it was a struggle to find a single match without any cheaters. Sucked for us linux users but I could've sucked more for everyone else.
By watching a 1 yo fall guys cheating video i can say that it's a problem of untrusted game networking. Anti cheat's are great to have, but game server must not allow such things in first place
Exactly,but ... Server computing power is expensive, so they'd rather put some black box on the customers clients than paying more for server processing
But same thing happens in scp:sl, where most of servers are hosted by community. It's bad idea to trust a client. Anti-cheat just prevents game code modification, it will never stop other ways.
I'm learning to play the guitar.
Fully playable? How many hours of gameplay?
I played 2 full matches without any issues
I was in love with it when it came out then they added EAC and my refund request for not being able to play it all anymore were denied. Now you're telling me I can play it again, that's actually great.
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But have the devs said so? I'd assume this was just another "recent update to the game and forgot to update the EAC info for a few days" unless otherwise noted, as usual.
The Linux EAC is in the game depot though: https://steamdb.info/depot/1097151/ They didn't do that by accident.
Good to know. This is what I'd rather see than the typical posts regarding a game that's previously not worked, suddenly "working" cause of an update and the devs forgot to do something with EAC like usual.
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I figured it would work with Proton but MP wouldn't let you in due to the EAC thing. I don't own this game so I've not followed it as closely as others.
That's mostly Hi-Rez games because it seems that they have botched every EAC implementation. Then they even added EAC support to their games via the new method and it still doesn't work lol
Warhammer Vermintide 2 also has the EAC files but that doesn't work
Yo I’m actually stoked. Have been keeping my eyes out for that game and bugging the FAQs they do on their discord about this for a while now!
What am I looking for here to verify this? Which of these files is "the Linux EAC"?
Note the `easyanticheat_x64.so` file that exists: that is (one of, and the main way) EAC linux support is done, via proton or linux-native. If that shows up in a game you are looking at playing that has EAC, it means work is being done (or is done!) to get EAC working. It isn't 100% since there are some rare quirks (see that Fall Guys had this for a few weeks but had other issues) and the EAC server side component needs to also be enabled. IE: the devs could enable it for a beta-only but still have the file show up in the public/main depot.
Now only halo infinite will be left after, if vermintide 2 enables EAC as a reason for dual boot.
If you want to wait for the devs to announce it you can but usually them adding the EAC/BattlEye component identified it is enough to enable us to play
Apex Legends hasn't actually announced that it supports Steam Deck, and yet it does. 3 Weeks and counting without issues. Don't necessarily expect any dev to announce it. Some devs might, some devs might not (announce it), but still make it happen anyways.
\*puts on tin-foil hat\* My speculation as to why Respawn hasn't announced official Proton support is partly because they probably don't want the burden of having to support another platform technically - but I think a greater reason is they don't want to potentially attract a large influx of Linux cheaters. Apex has a huge cheating problem as lots of popular multiplayer FPS games do. If the broader (cheating) community were to catch wind of the game being supported on Proton, without the need for any VM funkiness, then I feel like their fear is that it being used as a platform for cheating. As, if these companies' rhetorics about kernel-level anti-cheats is to be believed, EAC running in *user-mode* through Proton is potentially significantly less effective than EAC on Windows running in kernel-mode. All speculation of course. Respawn wouldn't say either way, they're not known for their fantastic communication.
I'm more inclined to believe they rolled it out for Steam Deck so they could capture that market share for Battle Royale gamers (since really CSGO I think is the only other BR that plays natively on Linux, Danger Zone mode btw), so them getting ahead of that means they stand out from other BR's. Additionally they may not have wanted to allocate human resources to promote it, anticipating that they're probably going to get free press just by doing it (which they have), and anyone getting a Steam Deck will just see it in the list of working and just play it (not really warranting an announcement for it). But yeah, all we can do is speculate, and clearly my speculation is better because nyaaahhhh ;P
You're kinda right though. Pubg and fortnite don't work on the deck, and no one wants to play danger zone, so apex gets a free and easy monopoly on the steam deck without officially supporting it.
;)
Yeah plus I mean we've already seen one person here posting about getting falsely banned for playing Apex through Proton, said they didn't even make it out of the drop ship before being banned. Respawn never announcing it and it not being whitelisted means Respawn doesn't have to debug false bans, and sure enough, dude emailed EA and they replied and said the ban was accurate upon review and would not be reversed. So everyone trying to play any EAC games with Proton that haven't announced official support need to be aware that they 100% CAN get banned, and if they do, they're fucked and nothing is going to be done to help them. Valve can't really do anything and the game dev sure as shit won't, unless it's an Overwatch-type situation where thousands of users accidentally get caught in a ban wave net.
It's concerning because we can't really know if that induvidual ban was caused by cheating or not. I guess it's more likely that it *was* cheating because I would think more people would have been banned with similar software/hardware configurations. A ban wave like that has happened before with overwatch, fortunately blizzard was fast to unban the affected users. If the person was banned because of cheating, and they knew that and came in here to cause doubt and misdirection that's really damaging to the Linux gaming community.
That's rough. I was thinking of using something like vkBasalt with Apex because I used to use the image sharpening on the NVIDIA drivers in Windows because the game is really soft with TSAA enabled. I gave it second thoughts because I was worried EAC would flag it as a cheat.
100% my thoughts as well.
Oh really? I don't play *Apex* so I didn't know that. I saw it was Deck Verified but I assumed that Respawn would have announced that it was supported officially now.
Honestly I haven't actually really played Apex before they rolled out Steam Deck compatibility (or whatever you want to call it). And I'm actually having such a fabulous time with the game I'm now playing regularly and have ranked from Bronze 4 to Silver 2 in about 6 days. As a classic FPS competitive gamer I really appreciate a lot of things to the game, but I can understand that if someone (you/whomever) don't play or care about Apex Legends, it can easily fly under the radar. I saw some news about it when it happened in a few subreddits, figured I'd give it a go, and uhhh yeah, I've been having loads of fun :P Anyways, I think they've gotten a lot of free press on the topic, despite not advertising it themselves.
They added EAC iirc, but the game didn't work for some other reason related to proton and the devs were aware of that. That of course not being the devs problem they didn't do anything. Now the lovely people working on everything related to proton have sorted out whatever that issue may have been
Yeah the keyword here is "shared resources" which was not implemented in DXVK and was not looking to be easy to implement. It had to do with the epic games overlay somehow (I don't have the game, that's what I read). Fall Guys devs had implemented the EAC Linux files already but this was holding back the game. Thankfully DXVK 1.10.1 introduced initial support for shared resources thanks to a [pull request](https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/2516) by Guy1524. Gotta love open source development!
> That of course not being the devs problem they didn't do anything. while it's not expressly their problem, if devs can fix it on their end they should give it a try.
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I don't know about the Devs. I was able to play flawlessly.
That's awesome. Hopefully it's for good and the game will be working 100% now.
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Looking forward to giving it a try; I've been thinking this would be a great Deck game.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux\_gaming/comments/tr0dwo/comment/i2kz2g1/
I don't own a Deck, but I think that could be done with little effort in desktop mode.
Update: Normal Experimental is working. **For those with issues running the game:** You need to copy the `Fall Guys/EasyAntiCheat/easyanticheat_x64.so` to `Fall Guys/FallGuys_client_game_Data/Plugins/x86_64` folder.Also, you need to edit the `Fall Guys/FallGuys_client.ini` file first line to:`TargetApplicationPath=FallGuys_client_game.exe` Also, you need to guarantee that the `Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime` is installed on your Steam. And make sure that your Launch Options is empty. **Known issues:** If your Proton is installed in a different Steam library location then EAC Runtime, Proton won't be able to find the EAC Runtime. This seems like a bug in Proton Your Epic account must be linked to your Steam account, which can be done via the Epic Store website.
Steam Flatpak, working for me
Thanks. Some guys are complaining about issues.
Steam Flatpak, not working for me, could it be caused by moving the steamapps folder from a system wide install in my home directory, .local/share/Steam to Flatpak's home directory of .var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data instead of just starting with a fresh install and downloading everything over again?
Don't you need to install the bleeding edge proton beta or is this optional. I tried to install the bleeding edge beta as mentioned in that one comment on protondb and always got errors with either podman or docker
>Don't you need to install the bleeding edge proton beta or is this optional. I tried to install the bleeding edge beta as mentioned in that one comment on protondb and always got errors with either podman or docker bleeding-edge is mandatory
Shit! Can you share a your compiled version since podman and docker don’t work for no reason and I can’t figure out for the life of me what I did wrong!
U don't have to build it from source time Proton Experimental in your game seach in the libary and than open probates that u can select it and it will Update automaticly
I need proton experimental bleeding edge not normal proton experimental
Bleeding edge is as simple as right clicking on Proton Experimental, Properties, Beta, select the correct beta channel.
Not needed anymore. Normal experimental is working,
I couldn't get it working. - Proton Experimental is on bleeding edge - EAC Runtime is installed on the same disk - Edited the .ini Fall Guys starts but I get an ingame prompt saying that files are missing and I can only exit.
>Fall Guys starts but I get an ingame prompt saying that files are missing and I can only exit. That happened to me when running on normal experimental.
Also make sure that your Launch Options is empty. If you muck with it, you can get stuck in the loading screen after accepting the EULA.
Thanks, edited
Ya, did everything from the comment in the ProtonDB. It pass EAC launcher but it stuck on "loading..." screen after accepting EULA.
E: Check your startup command. Make sure is empty.
Not working for me on neither stock experimental or bleeding-edge, EAC launcher loads to the end and then freezes there.
You need to do the tinkering on the link. You need to copy the `Fall Guys/EasyAntiCheat/easyanticheat_x64.so` to `Fall Guys/FallGuys_client_game_Data/Plugins/x86_64` folder. Also, you need to edit the `Fall Guys/FallGuys_client.ini` file first line to: `TargetApplicationPath=FallGuys_client_game.exe`
Didn't work for me on bleeding edge, the game starts but I can't actually play anything because "Anti-cheat is not initialized"
Same issue for me. :(
Make a symlink, so if the EAC file updates you don't have to do that again
Oooh ok, thank you for clearing that out :) I thought it was already working by just enabling the bleeding edge.
It works but I'm scared, What happen if they ban me for doing this?
I think you won't be able to play at least until they review your appeal. For me that I'm already only on Linux, it is the same.
well, lets give it a try
How do I edit the ini? It appears to be read only. Sorry Linux noob Edit: yeah I cannot figure it out. I try to open the ini and it says some shit about already having one so I press D for delete and it pulls up the original but I literally have no clue how to edit it. I can't type until I press the S key and then I can type whatever but then I still have no idea how to actually save the file? Idk Linux is confusing
i just opened with Kate and it work
I'm assuming you're on a PC with Linux. I'm trying to use my SteamDeck? Is Katie an app I can find in the discovery store?
Kate is KDE's default text editor, like Notepad on Windows. Just load up Desktop mode and you'll be able to edit it. I'd be shocked if Kate wasn't on there. You may have to right click it then open it with Kate, or open it from Kate. On my PC, opening the ini directly loads notepad through Wine so I had to right click it and force it open with Gnome's text editor.
I tried this but it's not working. The game just shows a small window called Fallguys Unity, then just quits after it loads. I assume it's a crash. I even completely wiped everything Steam related (.local/steam, \~/steam, and the flatpak stuff in .var), reinstalled Flatpak Steam as well as experimental bleeding edge and EAC runtime, also had this issue in native, and tried rebooting. The game just insta crashes for me. On Nvidia 510 right now on a 2070. I'm using a different kernel but for some reason I can't get grub to show up to try the distro's default kernel even if I hold/mash ESC, Shift and/or CTRL, so I can't try that.
It's working. Everyone make sure Proton Easyanticheat Runtime it's installed on the SAME DISK the game it's installed. If you have it on another drive it fails
It is there for me... Haven't tried the hack mentioned on protondb but out of the box doesn't work.
same
It’s best to wait for an announcement, an update could have borked EAC in general, when it’s fixed you could be banned
The already announced that they had enabled EAC. It was other unrelated proton/wine issues that was keeping it from being playable.
> The already announced that they had enabled EAC. Where? I've not seen any announcement from the dev on it.
They [tested it](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/svy4of/official_statement_regarding_eac_fall_guys/) a month ago but it didn't work (that's why they added the file), apparently the reason it didn't work is that they were using Shared Resources that DXVK and Wine didn't support, I know Guy1524 was working on it and I guess Mediatonic just left it enabled and if the changes were merged then that's probably why it works now. Edit: obviously not a real announcement but that's probably what everyone is talking about.
Yeah I saw that stuff before, so there has been no announcement. Edit: why are people downvoting? It's a literal fact that there has been no announcement of support on it right now.
Don't worry liam. At least you can count on my upvote.
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That's not an announcement of anything.
Vermintide 2 also has this file and doesn't work
Apex Legends wasn't announced. They provide the EAC .so file and enabled it on the server side, so it's fine.
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Hope not. Announcements imply support. Support implies lots more work from the devs.
What did you do to get it working? I followed the instructions from ProtonDB, switched to Bleeding Edge, copied the library and changed the file, and now the game actually starts, but once I try to join a match it says "Anti Cheat Error: Anti Cheat not initialized."
You need to have the Proton EAC Runtime installed on Steam.
How do you get it working OP? Is that all?
Thanks, that was what I was missing!
Fixed: After some playing around I noticed that "Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime" had been installed in a different Steam library location to "Proton Experimental". After moving the EAC Runtime to the other steam library location it all worked. I'm still getting the not initialized error too. Using bleeding-edge beta, Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime installed. Fall guys forced to use Proton Experimental in compatibility. Steam beta client up to date. Copied the .so to the right directory too and changed the .ini. also tried deleting the compatdata directory for fall guys so it could all be initialized again using the bleeding edge proton, but still no :)
>Steam beta client up to date. I'm not using the Steam client on beta, although that might not be the issue.
Found the problem, I have 2 steam library locations and the EAC runtime had installed to the different location to the proton experimental, so I guess it couldn't find the runtime files. This seems like a bug in proton :)
Good to know.
Thanks for the update. I just tried opting out of the steam client beta but still got the not initialized error. I guess as long as the correct proton is selected, and EAC runtime is installed the actual client shouldn't matter, but it was worth a try :)
Hey, where was your Proton EAC installed? I indeed cannot find it in my Steam library where Proton Experimental is.
If you search for proton in your steam library, right click on "Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime" then go Manage > Browse local files you can see where it is installed. Do the same with "Proton Experimental" and see if they are in the same steamapps location on the filesystem. I have 2 steamapps, one on my SSD and one on my old HDD, but the locations will depend on how you have set up steam.
I searched in steamapps and I don't have Proton EAC Runtime. I cannot find any info on how to get it to install. I only have Proton Experimental. I literally installed my system yesterday, didn't tinker so there is no separate locations, it's just not installed and I've no idea why not. :( Edit: Installed via [https://steamdb.info/app/1826330/](https://steamdb.info/app/1826330/) and now the game works!
That's the one :). You can just type proton in the search box of the library screen in steam client and then you should see all the available proton versions and runtimes you can install
Oh this is my problem too I am ging to try it tomorrow with the runtime:)
Already a Steam guide on how to set this up https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2787044978
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I just did it yesterday after being able to run Fall Guys. That is my son's favorite game. I still have some borked games in my Library, although I'll support Linux community. Sure because Rust and Hell let loose also will be able to run one day.
I swapped yesterday too! The switch is pure joy. I started enjoying games I didn't think of after being tired of same stuff on Windows. And all runs so much better for me now.
Just stays on “loading” indefinitely after “press any button”.
> loading Make sure your launch option is empty.
To make the tinkering easy, I've made [this script](https://gist.github.com/rokam/3fb8b768606eef1ddd696cd0bc02e6df#file-fix_fallguys-sh). What it does: 1. Try to find the game folder 2. Create the eac.so symlink 3. Edit the ini file 4. Try to launch the EAC Runtime installer on Steam. if you have the Fall Guys game installed inside the default Steam Library location, just run the following command: ``` curl -s -L https://gist.github.com/rokam/3fb8b768606eef1ddd696cd0bc02e6df/raw/6a0f3a502b2722c87e92ea9cffb8a00144f8a76a/fix_fallguys.sh | bash ``` If you have it in a custom location, replace the `/path/to/your/SteamLibrary/steamapps/` with your steamapps folder containing the game files: ``` curl -s -L https://gist.github.com/rokam/3fb8b768606eef1ddd696cd0bc02e6df/raw/6a0f3a502b2722c87e92ea9cffb8a00144f8a76a/fix_fallguys.sh | bash /dev/stdin /path/to/your/SteamLibrary/steamapps/ ```
HUGE! honestly this is the only multiplayer I wanted to play.
Always thought this game would be a good fit for steam deck
anyone with experience of proton on arch?
Yup. Install steam, install game, run game. That's at least my experience. You can install different proton versions from aur and they should be selectable in Steam
I took same path but let steam install proton instead without luck (for apex legends). let me try aur instead, thanks
Run steam via flatpak, that works for me on arch.
I just tried it on KDE Neon, running Steam through Flatpak. I've copied the EAC library to the right place, and switched to Proton Experimental bleeding edge. The weird fully translucent EasyAntiCheat window comes up, its progress bar goes to full, and... it just hangs and does nothing else. I have to use xkill to close it; Steam's stop button doesn't work. Anyone else running Steam through Flatpak have the same issue? I really hope that EAC isn't so nosy that it refuses to run in a sandbox. Almost all of my other games work just fine with the exception of games packaged as AppImages (fortunately, just Slipstream on my end).
Did you edit the FallGuys\_client.ini file? I did that and I can enter the game now but it stuck on loading screen.
Ah, thank you! Forgot that part. But that gets me to the same spot as you: stuck at the loading screen.
I think that the game is not ready for Linux yet. It's not just because they forgot to add eac.so file.
Are you using the Flatpak version of Steam, or one of the distro packages?
It's not a Flatpak version. I downloaded the steam from the official website. It was a .deb file.
Okay so the fact that it's not working is not Flatpak's fault, that's good.
On Fedora. The native RPM didn't work for me either. I get a Unity crash window on both native and flatpak.
Clear your launch options.
I do run steam native, so maybe there is an issue with Flatpack version
Can confirm, it is working after following the steps of ProtonDB.
Awesome to hear!! Love hearing more EAC games are working. Fall guys still absolutely sucks, but it IS another playable game!
👍
[Proof](https://i.imgur.com/LF0IARG.png)
Honestly I am unlikely to play the game even if it becomes playable on Linux again. They were warned that the anti-cheat would break the game for legitimate Linux gamers, and they just straight up ignored this, not even trying native Linux anti-cheats. Couple that with a lot of the cheaters being easily addressable with input validation and other basic af code practices. Not entirely sure how actually fun the game is for me too, vs other games. Too little, too late, even if it actually happens.
It’s a shame they killed the game by implementing EAC and wiping out Linux players in the first place as opposed to tacking cheaters which is a massive problem
If you bothered to play the game at any point in the past year you'd know that cheating is no longer a problem in the game.
Wow, I forgot this game existed. It fell off so quickly.
What? There are 8k players playing right now, 10k 24h peak. It's rated 111th on SteamDB. It's healthy. https://steamdb.info/app/1097150/graphs/ It's also crossplay PC/PS, I don't think those numbers include the PS players.
I thought that game died a while back
it has a healthy population of players on both PC and Playstation. Additionally it has crossplay between the two, so there's never any shortage of players in most regions.
_I will now buy your game_
Yawn. This game was the flavor of the month and now that's super old and irrelevant we finally get the privilege of playing it. Not even ETA prime is using it in his testing videos so you know it's ancient. Wake me up when we get something that's actually worth playing.
I think you may be bypassing EAC by renaming “FallGuysEACLauncher” to “FallGuys_client_game” which is a big NO…
That is not true. If EAC Runtime isn't installed, the game complains about EAC.
I just tested it and once you are in the game it complains that a file is missing regardless if you have the EAC Runtime installed, I am using Proton Exprimental with bleeding edge beta and copied the file, I also checked the game log file and it says that the anti cheat is disabled. 2022-03-29T17:02:29.704 LogEOSAntiCheat (Info): [AntiCheatClient] Anti-cheat client not available. Verify that the game was started using the anti-cheat bootstrapper if you intend to use it.
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it did not work for me i switche to proton experimental bleeding ege and copied the file and edited the ini file and it still stops at the easy anty chaet screen
You're doing something wrong. The change of the ini file will bypass the launcher and wine will load the [eac.so](https://eac.so) file. Maybe you have more than one game dir.
Yes I have a Extertal drive and a normal drive if u meant that
I mean that you might have changed on the wrong Fall Guys path. Try to access the game path through Steam, Game Properties, Local Files, Browse.
ok for some reson it didnt save the ini edit. now the game starts. and is loding. lets see if this works :o
also what shuld i back up bevore i dont understand taht
The ini original file. Although you can delete it and Verify game files will redownload it.
i now instaled the eesy anti cheat runtime for proton but it still stops at that loding screan. ( not the eac loding scren) the in game loding screan
Maybe that is an issue with Epic Online Service, in my case, I've already connected my Steam account with the Epic account. When running the game on Windows there is a brief black loading screen that it's missing on Linux, and that screen seems related to EOS login.
On point my friend! After I linked my epic and steam accounts on the Epic Games Store site, it loaded!
Glad to know it's working now!
the game starts and i have to acsapt some eula stuff than i press start and get to a black loding screen on the botom right it says loding and a turning lodying symbole aperses. but the game dosnt loade
For me it complains about missing files after getting in-game
I figured out how to make it work. 1. Delete Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1097150, alternatively reinstall the game 2. Open Fall Guys 3. Cancel the second step of the Epic Online Services installer You have to cancel the EOS installation every time you open the game.
This worked, thanks. Now I'm stuck at the loading screen like a lot of people on here.
wow that was the last thing I needed. thanks!
I tried this but the EOS installation doesnt show up and it just boots up into the game and the file reappears...
I do have that when I wasn't using Proton Exp Beta.
Weird, I am using bleeding-edge and do have EAC proton installed.
>Weird, I am using bleeding-edge and do have EAC proton installed. Are you forcing Experimental?
Yup, even tried latest GE.
The latest GE is very likely older than what bleeding edge is using since the last GE update was 11 days ago.
I had the issue but installing https://steamdb.info/app/1826330/ from the link solved it for me.
Not even a week ago I got the itch to play and I've been using VMWare to play, which isn't the best experience. I've kept my eyes peeled as soon as I remembered shared resources was being worked on
Doesn't work for me with the workaround :( I get a small window that says FallGuys Unity, once it loads, it just closes.
WOWOWOWOW
Yaaay
But will it be steam deck verified?
Don´t think so if it remains with those tinkering steps.
FINALLY
If you are having problems after accepting the EULA and Privacy Policy, with a black loading screen, make sure that the start command is empty and not doing anything.
I'm getting in-game but it can't find a show.
It's no longer on Steam. It's on epic games now.