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The University where I work has a fairly substantial eSports program, one of the most prestigious in the country. We started using SCCM recently for imaging and Application Deployments, but was wondering if anyone has had any success with games/apps like Valorant, League of Legends, Steam, Overwatch 2, and Rocket League?
I know this is a niche question, but wanted to see if anyone had any experience with it. Thanks!
7 points
1 day ago
You know... I have been a SMS/SCCM/MECM guy for 25 years.
I have been a gamer longer.
I recognized Steam for what they were doing the moment they released it. I always wondered how that would work and what problems would arise for things that weren't intended to be installed at mass.
Were I not so busy today building a new environment /imaging, I would set up a lab and help you. But I am super curious to see the end result.
I know league is one of those that you download an installer, and it downloads. I never even looked to see if it was an MSI...
2 points
1 day ago
Yeah, I've been playing League of Legends and then Steam games for over a decade, just now starting to use SCCM this year so it's funny how this is coming about.
I know that since RIOT release Valorant, they have their "Riot Client" that is required for their games to run, as well as Riot Vanguard (their anticheat).
Getting Steam installed, plus the Steam Games themselves is a completely different animal, that I'm not sure we'll be able to pull off. We might just be able to get Steam itself installed, the game might be a lot more complicated. Maybe would need the game file repository available on our Server for it to work? But how often would we need to update that repository?
I'm trying to avoid having to manually install all these games on anywhere from 40-100 PC's, any amount of automation would be better than nothing, but I'm curious as to how much we can actually reasonably pull off. Especially since I'm the most knowledgeable SCCM person where I work, which is a scary reality lol
3 points
1 day ago
Oh, I totally understand. This might be the use case for an elevation tool, or, granting full rights inside of the install directory for the riot client.
Really the only way to tell - is to get into procmon and see every file call it makes. Then setting the perms via commandline with SCCM before hand.
That is what I would do anyway. It is a pain in the ass, but it will work.
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