If you are playing on a 6-year-old laptop, you might be cooked. Many older motherboards don’t have TPM 2.0, or their Secure Boot implementation is broken. For you, Valorant is now a brick.
Let me paint a picture for you.
So, grit your teeth, Google your motherboard manual, and flip the switch. Because the alternative—playing against a dude who can see you through four walls while flying—is much, much worse.
Riot decided that the only way to beat the hackers is to lock the door before the game even starts. Here is where most blog posts lie to you. They say "Oh, just go into your BIOS and flip a switch."
Welcome to the new era of PC gaming, where Riot Games has decided that your convenience is less important than their crusade against cheaters. Riot’s anti-cheat, Vanguard , used to be annoying enough. It runs on kernel level (the deepest, scariest part of your computer) and boots up the second you turn your PC on. But recently, Vanguard got an upgrade.
It’s 11:00 PM. You just finished a long day of work or school. You grab your energy drink, boot up your RGB-lit battle station, and queue for some competitive Valorant. The map loads. Agents are locked in. The announcer says “Welcome to the Split...”
Then, BAM.
If you are playing on a 6-year-old laptop, you might be cooked. Many older motherboards don’t have TPM 2.0, or their Secure Boot implementation is broken. For you, Valorant is now a brick.
Let me paint a picture for you.
So, grit your teeth, Google your motherboard manual, and flip the switch. Because the alternative—playing against a dude who can see you through four walls while flying—is much, much worse.
Riot decided that the only way to beat the hackers is to lock the door before the game even starts. Here is where most blog posts lie to you. They say "Oh, just go into your BIOS and flip a switch."
Welcome to the new era of PC gaming, where Riot Games has decided that your convenience is less important than their crusade against cheaters. Riot’s anti-cheat, Vanguard , used to be annoying enough. It runs on kernel level (the deepest, scariest part of your computer) and boots up the second you turn your PC on. But recently, Vanguard got an upgrade.
It’s 11:00 PM. You just finished a long day of work or school. You grab your energy drink, boot up your RGB-lit battle station, and queue for some competitive Valorant. The map loads. Agents are locked in. The announcer says “Welcome to the Split...”
Then, BAM.