feed.gg
PC Gamer
Published ·

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 in this article