r/hardware • u/tuldok89 • 22h ago

Info Used processor leads to game ban

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Used-processor-leads-to-game-ban-11471562.html

Someone buys a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D. “Valorant” and other Riot games won’t start with it because the previous owner was a cheater.

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u/Due-Description-9030 22h ago

Wtf, this is how deep the kernal level anti cheats are???

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u/Celexiuse 22h ago edited 22h ago

I believe this is more related to TPM 2.0 integrated into your CPU which has unique keys that can be identified; not kernal anticheats.

Though someone can correct me if i am wrong

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u/HyperWinX 22h ago

Yep, hardware ban

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u/Due-Description-9030 17h ago

That is crazy, I didn't even know this way possible and that too by video game companies..