Possible to play under Linux?

Hey,

I recently found out I made an account here ages ago, lol. My question is regarding weather or not I could play on Linux. I used to use windows but with 7 gone I can't bring myself to go to 10, any chance to get the game running on wine or is that not possible?
Hope someone can help.

 

I believe there was kinda windows simulators for linux u could probably work game in it

 

TL;DR no.

I'm having similar issues; proton, wine, etc. can't even run the launcher to download the game, let alone play.

The "windows simulators for linux" that bsari004 mentioned (most commonly steam's proton, playonlinux, wine, etc) won't work. I switched to Manjaro as Win7 has reached EOL and was viewing these forums for this very reason. Sadly, from what I've read but I haven't verified it myself; it would appear that GamesBD uses a windows driver-level (ring 0) anti-cheat system which means that compatibility layer such as wine won't work (wine ISN'T an emulator; it simply aims to provide windows spec compliant system libraries, runtimes, etc. so programs that depend on them are able to run within a linux enviroment). Windows drivers operate on the same level as the OS and interface with the system in a very platform-dependent fashion; this is why drivers can bluescreen your system and have access to everything, where as usermode apps just die gracefully.

The only way to get something like this to run on Linux seems to be to run it within a virtual machine, i.e. within a native windows environment; however most aggressive anti-cheats --as this one appears to be-- often try to detect a virtualized environment as a counter-measure against reverse engineering. Even if it was forgiving and let's you run in a KVM or something, performance would be pretty terrible unless you had a second GPU and used iommu group pcie passthru's to give the VM it's own dedicated GPU with direct hardware-level access (as opposed to mere "GPU acceleration"). I haven't set up such a KVM to test and due to how the app behaves under wine and proton I'm not very optimistic.

It seems that unless GamezBD puts some devtime into it to allow linux compatibility, BDO is off-limits to us non-windows users. There isn't much we the community can do. Even if I was taking a more forceful approach, assuming they're competent developers I'd probably have an easier time ripping out their anti-cheat all together than I would trying to fool it into believing it's not being virtualized. They'd need to cooperate and I doubt GamezBD is willing to do so, especially since the potential linux userbase is probably quite low.