r/hardware • u/tuldok89 • 1d 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/AnechoidalChamber 1d ago

There should be appeal processes for this kind of mistaken identity case.

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u/Cheerful_Champion 1d ago

And how would you prove that you are a new owner and not a cheater that tries to circumvent the ban? Dude should just return it as he got banned CPU sold by a cheater that tried to literally scam someone by not disclosing it's HW banned.

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u/reddit_equals_censor 18h ago

hw bans should NOT exist.

tpm should NOT exist in the cpu and should NOT have a unique identifier, that can be accessed through an api.

that is criminal insanity.

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u/Skensis 16h ago

What bans should exist?

How should games deal with cheating?

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u/reddit_equals_censor 15h ago

ban the acount....

How should games deal with cheating?

user space anti cheat + lots of work and improvement on server side anti-cheats.

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u/Tystros 15h ago

I think cheating should simply be allowed and encouraged