63
Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater)
(insider-gaming.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
63 points (88.9% liked)
PC Gaming
14720 readers
463 users here now
For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki
Rules:
- Be Respectful.
- No Spam or Porn.
- No Advertising.
- No Memes.
- No Tech Support.
- No questions about buying/building computers.
- No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
- No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
- No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
- Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Good thing they didn't then. Nothing was actually bricked, people are misusing the term.
Still way too much access. Lock them out of the fucking kernel.
I agree. I'm not saying kernel level anti-cheat is acceptable, but the reporting on this has been a disaster. Making things up to try to make them look worse doesn't actually help anyone.
This is what cheaters do, unfortunately. Misreporting about Vanguard happened even on the first day of its release.
does non-kernal level anticheat work anymore if basically all cheaters operate at the kernel level at this point?