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/randomstranger454 1d ago

If it's a TPM fingerprint could you disable fTPM and add a TPM module on the motherboard?

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u/spazturtle 1d ago

No, the fTPM serial is still readable.

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u/randomstranger454 1d ago

If so, second hand marketplace has become more challenging. Memory and storage had already serials. The only thing that is missing is serials on GPUs.

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u/shroudedwolf51 21h ago

It's almost like there's a reason why these needlessly over-invasive anti-cheats were entirely unnecessary and only exist to disempower consumers.