Because HWMonitor loads a driver that can be abused by third party applications to read and write physical memory, read and write MSRs, perform IO operations (privileged); all from usermode. It's unsafe to load anyways and they're blocking it because it can be potentially used by hackers to read and write memory for the game.
This is accurate.
Thanks for this, adds a bit of extra transparency. Unfortunately, I imagine you'd still have those who think that disabling through this way is somehow psyops to trick people into giving information to CCP.
Anyway just wanted to also say your blog had a few articles that were interesting to read through /u/0xNemi.
Can't please everyone! Glad you enjoy the blog 😉. I haven't had a lot of time to work on it recently.
Awesome write up hopefully, this shutdown all the AHK meme aimbots that people think will be the end of this game lmfao
/u/riotarkem is conjuring something for that one. SoonTM.
when will there be fps fixes? i get microstutters every time i try retake a site and everyone is shooting and fps is broke in other games :(
Most of these issues should already be fixed by now, however, there'll be more optimizations in the new VALORANT build coming out soon (hopefully this week).
Vanguard is blocking VMWare Virtual Machines from starting. This has impacted a lot of people's workspaces and by now, is already known to VMWare. Is this issue already known to you guys? Will something be done about this?
We've addressed this a few times already. We're aware that some folks are having issues, but we haven't been able to repro it on our ends. We'll continue testing, though.
Heya, is there a fix coming for the "Vanguard requiring reboot" -bug? Kinda annoying to safeboot and manually overwrite the files everytime I wanna play. Great game otherwise, and I've been enjoying it a lot.
P. S. Ive tried the method where you remove the drivers and ran as administrator etc. This is the only way I get my game to run. :(
This update will hopefully help. If you keep noticing problems though, please reach out to player support so that they can help with triage!
While we normally don't plan on documenting changes to Vanguard, our Anti-Cheat system for VALORANT, on a frequent basis, this new update to Vanguard adds a new visual component that will give you, the player, more visibility and control over it. This post serves to provide some context.
Starting today, Vanguard will start showing a system tray icon (after a reboot) while it's running. From there, you'll be able to turn off Vanguard at any time. Turning off Vanguard puts your machine in an untrusted mode and will prevent you from playing VALORANT until you reboot. If you want to keep Vanguard off indefinitely until you play VALORANT (e.g. persisting across multiple reboot sessions), you'll be able to do so mor...
I'm using AVG, I have tried running the game with this off however to the same result.
I'm happy to try sending them to your account on twitter or something you're verified on if that's ok with you? Simply on the paranoid principle of not sending any logs or anything to a non-verified Riot account.
You can DM me on Twitter then. Still trying to get flaired on this subreddit. https://twitter.com/0xNemi
Well that didn't take long lol.
Neither fix has worked for me.
After updating I was able to stay in a game until the last round of the first half.
After this I turned off firewalls and restarted the client and was able to stay in for 2 rounds before the issue happened again.
I find that generally once i've been kicked once over this error it recurrs far sooner each time.
Grab your logs, zip them up, and you can send them my way (PM). They'll be in "C:\Program Files\Riot Vanguard\Logs".
What antivirus are you using? Just Defender?
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