


Anticheat prohibits Linux
When I launched the game, I got an error message saying "Wine, Proton and Steam Deck are not supported", beyond that the game didn't launch.

kernel anti-cheat preventing to launch on proton
EA being EA not allowing to play on steam deck or linux
The program encountered E111000B at 00002302 during initialization. Wine, Proton, and Steam Deck are not supported by this application!
EA sucks
Wine, Proton, and Steam Deck are not supported by this application!
The program encountered E111000B at 00002302 during initialization.
Wine, Proton, and Steam Deck are not supported by this application!
not compatible with proton and wine
"Wine, Proton, and Steam Deck are not supported by this application!"
Kernel-level anti cheat prevents game from launching.

Intentionally broken - Immediately on launch it detects that it is running within proton and shows, refusing to launch proper.
Alert says "Wine, Proton, and Steam Deck are not supported by this application!"
D.O.A - Anti-cheat does not support Linux.
Attempting to preload the game will present a message that Wine, Proton and Steam Deck are not supported. This is likely due to Javelin, EA's in-house kernel level anti-cheat software.
Also note that Javelin requires secure boot, setting high IT expertise requirements to all linux users to enable this 'feature' on their operating system. This includes ALL steam deck users; you don't have secure boot enabled by default!
Preloading and beta testing Battlefield 6 can be done FOR FREE until the end of beta on august 17.
Impossible to start the Open Beta Client. Error message: "Wine, Proton and SteamDecka re not supported by this application".
gamescope -f --backend sdl -w 2560 -h 1440 -- %command%

Open Beta (8-4-2025). Borked.
"The program encountered E111000B at 00002302 during initiallization.
Wine, Proton, and Steam Deck are not supported by this application!"

An Error Message pops up: "Wine, Proton and Steam Deck are not supported by this application!"
Full Error Message: "The program encountered E111000B at 00002302 during initialization. Wine, Proton and Steam Deck are not supported by this application!"
It's safe to assume that the game will not run on proton, at least not right out of the box/for a while
It's also worth noting that this is pre-launch, open beta and that this may change in the future
(This post was made at the release of open beta!) Javelin.
The chances of EA removing kernel level anticheat are slim to say the least. Don't preorder unless you plan on dual-booting a windows OS.
Anticheat requires kernel level access, and will not boot on Linux. Better have a Windows partition if you want to play.
Game doesn't start
mangohud gamemoderun %command%
Game shows a warning that: The program encountered E111000B at 00002302 during initialization.
Wine, Proton, and Steam Deck are not supported by this application!

Doesn't Launch - Error message specifically says it does not support Wine, Proton or Steam Deck.
Shame :/

Unabable to lunch
Wine,proton, and steam deck are not supported by this application - program encountered E111000B at 00002302 during initialization.

Error E111000B at 00002302 during initialization
Ea anti-cheat issue.

Battlefield 6 Open Beta
"Wine, Proton, and Steam Deck are not supported by this application!"

Open Beta BORKED on linux
"Wine, Proton, and Steam Deck are not supported by this application!" Don't bother on linux yet. Unless there is a workaround I'm not aware of yet. Keep in mind the game releases in 2 months lol.

The game actually checks for Wine, proton, Linux. I got this error: "Wine, Proton, and Steam Deck are not supported by this appluication"
BORKED by the publisher because they don't wanna hire a dev for a day to put in like 5 lines of code into the anticheat implementation. Yes it's that easy, google it!

Javelin anti-cheat explicitly does not run
Open Beta build does not work. At start shows error:
The program encountered E111000B at 00002302 during initialization.
Wine, Proton and Steam Deck are not supported by this application!

Game quits on startup with error E111000B
Tested on Open Beta executable. On startup, game reports: "The program encountered E111000B at 00002302 during initialization. Wine, Proton, and Steam Deck are not supported by this application!"
Probably related to the kernel-level anticheat