Riot taunts would-be hackers using physical hardware to cheat: 'congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k…
Riot Games has implemented a new anti-cheat measure for Valorant that targets hardware-based cheating, specifically Direct Memory Access (DMA) cards. This update effectively turns expensive cheating hardware into useless paperweights, with the Vanguard anti-cheat system triggering an IOMMU restart warning that renders the DMA firmware unusable, even requiring a full OS reinstall in some cases.
- Entities
- Game: Valorant
- Topic: Hardware
- Topic: Cheating
- Platform: PC
- Company: Riot Games
- Topic: Anti-Cheat
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