Vivaldi getting flagged by BattlEye anti-cheat.

[palmoon]

I play a lot of planetside 2, and today I was unable to join games because the BattlEye anti-cheat was flagging me and pointing to vivaldi.exe.

This is the first this has happened and I have used Vivaldi almost since its inception (and played a ton of Planetside and other games that use BattlEye along the way).

I don't believe either PS2 or Vivaldi had updates yesterday. Any other ideas why this might be happening? I uninstalled vivaldi to test and then the game runs fine.

[Hadden89]

@palmoon
Report to them and let us know

[palmoon]

@Gwen-Dragon said in Vivaldi getting flagged by BattlEye anti-cheat.:

@palmoon If Vivaldi is flagged, does this have any influence on playing your games or on starting Vivaldi? Or is this just only a warning of BattlEye?

Vivaldi tripping BattlEye does not allow the game to run and forces it to close. Vivaldi itself works as normal. I uninstalled Vivaldi for today so I could play the game.

Sent the support ticket to them. I don't expect a fast response but I will report back when I hear something.

[palmoon]

Welp... it's been nearly two weeks. I've sent two emails in that time and have not received any response.

For now, I just won't be using vivaldi on my desktop.

[Hadden89]

@Gwen-Dragon So it seems. And whitelisting must be approved by their contact form. So battleye/vivaldi users should continue to "nag" them. (yet another custom care from the hell)

[iAN CooG]

an old reddit thread about this
https://www.reddit.com/r/h1z1/comments/4ehfpx/battleeye_kicking_because_of_a_browser/
suggested to run vivaldi as admin to workaround it, maybe it helps.

[Hadden89]

@iAN-CooG Could work. But launching a browser as admin to prevent bad filters from an app which works as user level is a very bad and insecure workaround. But I fear is the only solution, at the moment.
And even a big flaw in the whole "anti-cheat" system

[Hadden89]

@Gwen-Dragon Yes. Run vivaldi as admin so battleye can't access to it.
I would report to them but if they move their useful tool to admin level not to fix the list is even worse.

[Pathduck]

From the FAQ:
"My BE Launcher window shows “[INFO] Blocked loading of file: …” messages. What’s wrong and do I risk getting banned?"
"First of all, no, you won’t risk getting banned for any of these messages. They also don’t mean that BE is looking at files on your system that are unrelated to the game. If a file is blocked it means that the game process tried to load them, which is the reason BE is checking them."
https://www.battleye.com/support/faq/

So the game is trying to launch Vivaldi, most likely because it's the default browser on the system. And somehow the game relies on launching the browser.

It isn't really clear from the first post, but does BattleEye also close Vivaldi if it's already running?

And have you updated Vivaldi? Often these kinds of programs rely on heuristics or file signatures that will change for every release.

[palmoon]

@Pathduck Yes, it does close if vivaldi is already running.

I think vivaldi was already running in admin, but I will try to reinstall today and make sure to try that solution, thanks @iAN-CooG , I scoured for a while for solutions before posting here and did not find that

[Pathduck]

@palmoon I would also try to not run Vivaldi in admin mode. Generally, running applications as Administrato if not specifically required for it to function should be avoided, as it might cause different kinds of issues with file permissions and security of the system. There should be no need for Vivaldi to run as Administrator.

Running as Admin might even have caused the original issue, maybe the BattleEye client detects an application trying to run as Admin and so terminates it (just a theory)...

[Hadden89]

@Pathduck
Or maybe they whitelist opera|firefox|edge|chrome|safari|.exe.
Considered the support feedback I won't be surprised.
A "fun test" could be to rename vivaldi.exe to chrome.exe on a standalone and see what happens there (as standard user). But I don't have a bat hell eye to test with.
But yeah, browsers shouldn't be launched as admin.

The protection actually check a lot of things and some of them are quite beyond a mere anti-cheating system.
DRM. DRM everywhere.

[palmoon]

I will also try installing vivaldi globally instead of into the app data folder, maybe the anti-cheat doesn't like it coming from there.

[Hadden89]

@palmoon Or a standalone like in C:\Vivaldi.
Maybe the anti-cheat won't be bothered by a software which is not in a "system-monitored-folder".

[palmoon]

Oh sorry, I wasn't 100% sure what that meant

[palmoon]

Ok well, no admin + installed in program files seems to be working.

edit. works admin or no admin