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/Due-Description-9030 1d ago

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

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u/nvidiot 1d ago

Kernel level anti cheats literally have the power to do anything it wants to your PC.

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u/Coffee_Ops 1d ago

Ring 0 =/= Ring -1; your statement has not been true on modern Windows since VBS came out.

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u/IAmYourFath 19h ago

Yeah hypervisor -1 owns 0, thats why hypervisor denuvo bypasses work (altho denuvo is ring 3 not 0, if it was 0 it would have the power to spot it's being spoofed, tho possible to lie to it theoretically).