Riot Downplays Reports That League Of Legends’ New Anti-Cheat System Is Bricking PCs
Riot Games’ Vanguard anti-cheat as the popular free-to-play MOBA’s new anti-cheat system. However, there have been some reports that the kernel-level software had bricked their rigs and blocked game streaming services from running the game in others.
Some players eventually found out that they needed to reset and tweak their BIOS settings to fix the issue, not everyone has enough tech knowledge to do a BIOS reset, nor did it work for everyone experiencing the problem.
Riot Games promptly issued a statement claiming that the issue only affected a small fraction of League of Legends players and that they’ve yet to confirm that the anti-cheat program has actually bricked anyone’s rig.
“Since 14.9 went live, fewer than 0.03% of players have reported issues with Vanguard. In most cases, these are common error codes.” the studio said. “At this point in time, we have not confirmed any instances of Vanguard bricking anyone’s hardware. […] We’ve individually resolved a few of the major threads you may have seen so far of s claiming this with their machines and have confirmed that Vanguard wasn’t the cause of the issues they were facing.”
The studio advises players to customer if they run into any problems with the Vanguard anti-cheat. They also denied claims that the program captures unauthorized screenshots of s’ monitors, but they did it that it takes screenshots of the fullscreen game client only when there’s suspicion of cheating and hacking activities. Riot says that it’s a normal practice for anti-cheat software and doesn’t violate any privacy laws.
