A Riot Ban Followed a Used Ryzen CPU to Its New Owner, but Something Is Not Adding Up
Riot says the ban was tied to a previously blacklisted CPU serial number, while the company says inherited hardware bans are rare and game-specific.
- A user claimed they were banned from Valorant immediately after installing a recently purchased AMD Ryzen CPU, which Riot Games allegedly blacklisted based on its serial number.
- Riot Games has long enforced strict anti-cheat policies utilizing HWID bans to deter cheating, though the company loosened rules slightly earlier this year to mitigate unintended consequences for the secondhand hardware market.
- Riot's Phillip Koskinas disputed that Vanguard blacklists entire systems for one banned component, stating that Valorant HWID bans are game-specific and last no more than four months.
- The user reported that filing a PayPal complaint failed to resolve the issue, claiming other components were also blacklisted, which Koskinas rejected by denying entire PCs are banned from all Riot titles.
- Riot Games recently introduced an optional On-Demand mode and Vanguard Pre-Check for PCs meeting Windows security requirements, allowing the anti-cheat driver to run only when a game launches.
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A Riot ban followed a used Ryzen CPU to its new owner, but something is not adding up
A redditor recently claimed they were banned from Valorant immediately after starting a match following the installation of a recently purchased AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D. According to the user, Riot said the CPU's serial number was already on the company's anti-cheat blacklist, although Riot says it cannot find the related...Read Entire Article
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A player buys a second-hand CPU and inherits Valorant's ban from the seller. Riot nuances the story, but the case background is still standing. The entry Buys a second-hand CPU and inherits a Valorant hardware ban: Riot nuances his story was first published in What!.
Valorant players claim to have inherited hardware bans after buying used CPUs.|Riot says Valorant hardware bans last a maximum of four months.|Riot denies that hardware bans on one component automatically block other components.
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