January 15, 20242 yr On 12/24/2023 at 5:06 AM, epicaleric1 said: Today I'm suddenly kicked out of the game again, while it has been working the last few days. Indeed seems to be a BattleEye issue. Very annoying. Trying to check how to force using Easy Anticheat. same here. invest in some other game that doesnt treat you like garbage for not being stereotypical gamer with one operating system.
December 10, 20241 yr Good afternoon, is it still working? I'm trying to play "delta force" but it detects the virtual machine. I tried the comments in the post but it doesn't work. Is it possible that I need to reinstall windows? I simply modified the xml and restarted the same machine.
January 21, 20251 yr On 12/10/2024 at 6:37 PM, foncubierta said: Good afternoon, is it still working? I'm trying to play "delta force" but it detects the virtual machine. I tried the comments in the post but it doesn't work. Is it possible that I need to reinstall windows? I simply modified the xml and restarted the same machine. hey, did you find a solution for this? I also want to play Delta Force thanks and greetings! Edited January 21, 20251 yr by tomoffel
February 26, 20251 yr On 8/28/2022 at 11:07 AM, shakinbacon said: after a ton of research i have figured it out. under <os> put <smbios mode='host'/> directly below that put this under <features> <kvm> <hidden state='on'/> </kvm> under <cpu mode ='host-passthrough'....... put <feature policy='disable' name='hypervisor'/> and i also deleted any lines pertaining to hyper-v hope this helps anyone in the future I'm from the future. As of 7.0.1 this still works w/ EAC Fortnite. My woes are gone for now. Many thanks!
May 8, 20251 yr On 8/28/2022 at 11:07 PM, shakinbacon said: after a ton of research i have figured it out. under <os> put <smbios mode='host'/> directly below that put this under <features> <kvm> <hidden state='on'/> </kvm> under <cpu mode ='host-passthrough'....... put <feature policy='disable' name='hypervisor'/> and i also deleted any lines pertaining to hyper-v hope this helps anyone in the future Thanks, AMD EPYC 7F32 running Win11 24h2 VM, solved EAC problem when running StarshipTroopers:Extermination
June 8, 20251 yr Damn, was really hoping this post would work for me but as of today anything with EAC is broken on my linux vm on unraid. Tried the 3 changes listed above and it's still throwing the "cannot play on a VM" bullshit.
July 5, 20251 yr Community Expert Same issue for me. Can anyone confirm this is still working and/or what else we can try?
September 9, 2025Sep 9 Community Expert <smbios mode='host'/>This one made me play Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2.
November 19, 2025Nov 19 On 8/28/2022 at 10:07 PM, shakinbacon said:after a ton of research i have figured it out.under <os> put<smbios mode='host'/>directly below that put this under <features><kvm> <hidden state='on'/> </kvm>under <cpu mode ='host-passthrough'....... put<feature policy='disable' name='hypervisor'/>and i also deleted any lines pertaining to hyper-v hope this helps anyone in the futureOn 12/24/2022 at 6:52 PM, ffgdad said:i found this on steam. I cant believe it worked."How to fix "This Application cannot run under a Virtual Machine"So while searching everywhere to fix this error, I found something that fixes the error. The game for some reason thinks your PC is a VM if the name of your computer name starts with a "DESKTOP" within it's name. For example, DESKTOP-123ABC. To fix it, go to System -> Advanced settings -> Computer Name. Click "Change" and change the "DESKTOP" to something else, like Jamal-PC, etc, and then restart your computer and it will be fixed. If you have something different than "DESKTOP" header, then disable Hyper-V by going to "Programs and Features" and" Turn on and off Windows Features". Hope that helps. If only I can post this on the forums, but keeps getting cooldown." https://steamcommunity.com/app/555570/discussions/0/152390648089353221/Thank you so much for sharing! Thanks to these, I can run Rivals on my VM
November 19, 2025Nov 19 On 8/28/2022 at 10:07 PM, shakinbacon said:after a ton of research i have figured it out.under <os> put<smbios mode='host'/>directly below that put this under <features><kvm> <hidden state='on'/> </kvm>under <cpu mode ='host-passthrough'....... put<feature policy='disable' name='hypervisor'/>and i also deleted any lines pertaining to hyper-v hope this helps anyone in the futureOn 12/24/2022 at 6:52 PM, ffgdad said:i found this on steam. I cant believe it worked."How to fix "This Application cannot run under a Virtual Machine"So while searching everywhere to fix this error, I found something that fixes the error. The game for some reason thinks your PC is a VM if the name of your computer name starts with a "DESKTOP" within it's name. For example, DESKTOP-123ABC. To fix it, go to System -> Advanced settings -> Computer Name. Click "Change" and change the "DESKTOP" to something else, like Jamal-PC, etc, and then restart your computer and it will be fixed. If you have something different than "DESKTOP" header, then disable Hyper-V by going to "Programs and Features" and" Turn on and off Windows Features". Hope that helps. If only I can post this on the forums, but keeps getting cooldown." https://steamcommunity.com/app/555570/discussions/0/152390648089353221/Thank you so much for sharing! Thanks to these, I can run Rivals on my VM
November 24, 2025Nov 24 I found out by accident that enabling the Virtual Machine Platform feature in Windows works as well. At least it did for Fortnite.
January 5Jan 5 I am trying to follow this ideas in this post but can't get ARC Raiders to run. It was giving me the VM popup but after the modifications now just won't launch and crashes.
January 7Jan 7 Community Expert On 1/4/2026 at 6:45 PM, Elembemedia said:I am trying to follow this ideas in this post but can't get ARC Raiders to run. It was giving me the VM popup but after the modifications now just won't launch and crashes.I wanted to try Arc Raiders as well and this is also a problem that I encounter. I saw someone that was able to run it, but once he was in the game, it terminated his game. The anti-cheat software they use seems to be impossible to bypass. We need a real computer.
May 4May 4 Tried this today on my Bazzite Linux VM with Back 4 Blood and the solution is not working.Looks like in the future before I buy a game, I'm going to have to cross reference these lists to see if it's going to give me issues:https://steamdb.info/tech/AntiCheat/EasyAntiCheat/https://steamdb.info/tech/AntiCheat/BattlEye/
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