Does Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege run on Linux?
Verdict: No
No. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege uses FairFight and BattlEye and R6 ShieldGuard, and its maker has declined to let it work on Linux, so you cannot play it there. There is no safe workaround.
Rainbow Six Siege will not let you play on Linux. Ubisoft has not enabled Linux support for the anti-cheat it uses, so the game is blocked outright rather than merely awkward. Are We Anti-Cheat Yet records this as a refusal by the maker, not a fault waiting on a fix.
There is a second hurdle before that one. The Steam version requires a Ubisoft Connect account and agreement to a separate Ubisoft licence, so it is not self contained on Steam the way most games are.
No version of Linux and no change of settings gets past the block, and trying to bypass anti-cheat puts your account at risk.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is an action game from Ubisoft Montreal, published by Ubisoft, first released on 1 December 2015.
You can play it alone or co-operatively online. Steam lists it as fully playable with a controller. It is free to play.
The evidence
- Its own Linux version
- No, it runs through Proton
- Player rating on ProtonDB
- Borked, from 311 reports
- Recent reports
- Trending Bronze
- Steam Deck (which runs Linux)
- Marked unsupported by Valve
- Anti-cheat
- FairFight, BattlEye, R6 ShieldGuard: Maker has refused Linux support
What you can do
No version of Linux and no setting can fix this, because the block is on the game's side. Trying to get around anti-cheat can also put your account at risk. If this is a game you play often, keep Windows on that PC, or install Linux beside Windows and restart into Windows to play.
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Ratings are reported by players at ProtonDB and anti-cheat status by Are We Anti-Cheat Yet. Both change, so follow the links below for today's picture.
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