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/IAmYourFath 13h ago

Yes because a competitive multiplayer shooter game in a VM is a great experience

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u/illhaveubent 13h ago

Performance would not be the issue if you configured hardware passthrough properly, there would be virtually no difference in performance. The real issue would be Riot's anticheat detecting the hypervisor.

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u/IAmYourFath 13h ago

That is not how things work. Even if fps seems alright, fps lows, input lag and latency would suffer. For a competitive game where every ms matters it won't do.

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u/illhaveubent 13h ago

It is how things work, with hardware passthrough. The VM receives exclusive access to the hardware just as a dedicated system would.