A user is desperate about Valorant: Because the shooter completely dismantles his son’s new gaming PC every time. Behind this is Riot’s modern anti-cheat technology, which has long been heavily criticized by players. The players’ accusation: Riot accepts broken computers, but the developer defends itself against it.
A father desperately reports on Reddit that he bought and assembled a gaming PC for his son. Cost: About 3,000 US dollars, and the hardware for the money is also impressive (Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32 GB RAM, and RX 9070 XT).
However, there is a nasty surprise every time he wants to install Valorant on the PC. Because then the PC is supposed to crash every time and stop functioning correctly. The user explains that he would then need several hours each time to repair the PC:
I have now spent 8 whole days on this, and every time we install Valorant, it completely ruins the PC. I have now spent almost 100 hours resetting the BIOS dozens of times and reinstalling Windows multiple times. It can take up to 8 hours to repair the BIOS.
The big problem lies behind Valorant. Because it installs a controversial anti-cheat software that seems to cause trouble.
However, some users point out in the Reddit thread that simply one component of the new PCs could be “faulty”. Against this theory is the fact that the father explains that all other games do not cause problems and that issues only arise after installing Valorant and Lol.
Riot’s Vanguard protection has long been criticized by players
What is this anti-cheat program? Vanguard is Riot’s official anti-cheat tool, which is supposed to detect cheaters in League of Legends and Vanguard. The problem with the tool: Vanguard burrows deep into your computer’s operating system and checks the active processes of your system. As the software runs in kernel mode at the highest privilege levels, it can theoretically access all system information and data.
Players have long accused Riot of accepting that the hardware of players would break as a result. These accusations are about as old as the anti-cheat tool itself.
Riot has since commented on this and explained that it does not destroy PC hardware with Vanguard, but only targets cheat tools.
With the latest update, Riot is going too far for many players. Because Vanguard is now supposed to be able to check USB devices and disable them. This has caused outrage among many players. You can read more about it on MeinMMO: Riot is taking such radical action against cheaters that it is even going too far for the players
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