Valorant’s anti-cheat disables many other software in the computer such as heat sink, resulting in the computer burning hot and almost causing a fire.
VALORANT’s Vanguard almost caused a computer fire
Recently, some Valorant players reported that the controversial anti-hacking software is interfering with drivers attached to PC hardware such as cooling systems, keyboards, mice and GPUs.
I just spent the last 3 hours figuring out why I couldn’t get into Windows because my keyboard and mouse wouldn’t work. Just before that, I started smelling hot plastic – my graphics card was running +90°C because again, Vanguard disabled my cooling software (My PC case got very bad airflow, I have to decrease my GPU performance to keep it cool enough).
Vanguard really needs to prevent us from launching the game while X software is active -and asking us to close it, even if we need to reboot just after- instead of disabling everything silently.
EDIT regarding my GPU: the issue with my graphics card started few days ago but I wasn’t able to link it to Vanguard. Since my case was made to hold a GT630, the airflow sucks hard and I made a profile which I always use with target performance at 75% for my GTX970. Less performance, but less heat and then less noise. Few days ago, Asus GPU Tweak gave me “Error BIOS load failed” when starting, and my GPU was spinning like crazy in a TFT game. I didn’t fry my GPU (but others are claiming so), but it’s not comfortable at all for me to have it blowing at fullspeed when playing a TFT game.
u/RiotArkem got downvoted into hell, so i’ll copy/pasta what he said just in case
” We’re working on ways to make the experience better. Our current notification pop-ups aren’t as good as they could be and we’re looking for ways to give you more control over how Vanguard works.
We’re happy to do anything we can to make this smoother for everyone as long as it doesn’t give an opening for cheaters.
TL;DR: Expect improvements before launch.”
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edit: thx for the silvers!
edit2: thanks for the 4 golds, kind strangers!
edit3: thanks a lot for the plat!
Immediately this player’s post received more than 20,000 votes on Reddit, many others shared that Vanguard set their computer on fire by shutting down all of the motherboard’s cooling software, even Some even shared that they had burnt pants and severe burns on their legs while playing Valorant, just because Vanguard handled all his software including the heat sink.
Vanguard almost caused a computer fire
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This is not the first time Valorant’s anti-hacking software has been caught in the spotlight when Vanguard was previously thought to reduce the FPS of other games such as World of Warcraft or CSGO.
VALORANT is currently in beta and has no specific release date (only expected to launch this year). However, the unfavourable start with the anti-hacking system can make this game quite affected when it is officially launched.
Information From: Reddit