Battlefield 6 and Valorant's invasive anti-cheats are locked in a turf war
The age of kernel-level anti-cheat software is creating unique hurdles.
"it is" settings
You know software with more access than I have is quality when even the error messages have typos. Fuck that, I'm not installing malware to play any videogame...
I can barely trust security companies to not screw up, let alone a game company running something at kernel level
Yep, every day "security solution Y had/has critical vulnerability". And every second day "no patches yet".
Let them fight.
Goddamnit, I sort of kind of predicted this would eventually happen with Kernel level ACs... about 24 hrs before this started happening.
Now, I was describing it in a context of someone trying to run like an extra Kernel level AC over a game that had a non Kernel AC... to make it 'more secure'...
But yeah, this is pretty much back to the olds days of McAffee and Norton fighting each other and identifying each other as malware, when they're both installed at the same time and always running.
Awesome.
My experience with BF6.
Open beta required to watch twitch for 30 minutes to get a key to get early access. Got key, doesn't work, says it's invalid. Load up game, can't play because it's only early access beta and locked. Try again the next day, now the game won't even start up saying secure boot must be enabled. Check bios, secure boot is enabled. Guess I can't play BF6?
The headline makes it sound worse than it is.
From the article:
Riot head of anti-cheat Phillip Koskinas cleared up the misunderstanding in an X post earlier this week.
"Vanguard is compatible with Javelin, and you don't need to uninstall one anti-cheat to use the other. However, BF6 does not currently allow the VALORANT client to be running simultaneously, because both drivers race to protect regions of game memory with the same technique."
So, you can play play BF6 and VALORANT at the same time... not exactly a massive issues unless you're running a mainframe, I guess?
People running BF6 have been getting error messages that seem to tell them they need to entirely uninstall Valorant.
Why did you link an article that you haven’t read?
From your article:
AnAveragePlayer tried to run both games simultaneously on his PC, which led to the problems. This is generally not a particularly good idea, as both programs compete for the available hardware.
The problem can be easily solved by not trying to play two games at the same time. Which is actually impossible with two fast-paced first-person shooters.