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Vanguard just went live and LoL players are already claiming it's bricking their PCs (dotesports.com)
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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 52 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would never let some random anticheat code have kernel access. Games are demanding something crazy, and users are stupidly letting them get it.

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)

It's not just silently installed by Steam, or something, they have to explicitly confirm they accept it? I don't play this game, I am curious if players are unaware or actively stupid.

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Riot's games can only be played with their own launcher, so no steam. They give a big message about "now installing vanguard, our anticheat," then inform you to reboot to finish the install, since vanguard is the only ring 0 anticheat that puts itself into the kernel start up, always running.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

honestly "installing anticheat" doesnt make justice to what it does

[–] aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Some are unaware, but most are actively stupid. Bring this topic up in any helldiver's thread and you'll get down voted to oblivion.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I I stalled helldiver's and didn't realize I was doing that.

I'm not exactly savvy though.