My guess is that there's something else going on because two of my friends play Valorant and had no problem playing it. They even played Valorant the day after the beta for Battlefield 6 ended.

Who could have predicted that hanging ten conflicting kernel-level anti-cheat installations might cause compatibility problems?

In another article, I read that it happens when you have the Valorant launcher **running** – because it clashes with the kernel-level anticheat. Having it installed and closed shouldn't cause any issues.

Top comment on the article: > This is false and Eurogamer covered it already. You cannot run both at the same time, but both can be installed. The Valorant anti-cheat just cannot be active (it can be turned off at any time if it is running and requires a reboot before the game can be played if disabled). https://www.eurogamer.net/you-cant-play-battlefield-6-and-valorant-at-the-same-time-heres-why

If you consciously install a rootkit to play a game, you deserve whatever comes after.

Hopefully this moves people to view kernel level anti-cheat as malicious and as nefarious as other malware.

The installations aren't the problem. Trying to run them at the same time is the problem, but why would anyone be loading more than one game at a time?

Honestly that's not much better. I shouldn't be expected to reboot my computer to play a game.

How long before these kernel level rootkits start identifying each other as cheats, making being a fan of more than one game a bannable offense?

As far as I understand it, you'd need to reboot only if you 1. Had Valorant running 2. Stopped Valve's anticheat manually 3. Want to play Valorant again afterwards. It's still stupid, yeah. But workarounds are usually that

i routinely have 3 games running in the background, sometimes 4. Different strokes and all that.

Not sure if you're being serious, but at least Riot Games' anti-cheat Vanguard always wants to be running in the background, whether the game is running or not. Sure, you can stop it, but if you then want to play something that requires it, you have to reboot. There's no manual way to start it. One of the reasons I decided to drop Valorant.

> but why would anyone be loading more than one game at a time? Maybe you're virtualizing it for multiple users. Sure, that might sound like a weird thing to do, but that's mostly because shit like this makes it harder than it ought to be.

It should also be noted cheats can and have bypassed both BF6 and Valorants anti-cheat anyway.

Valorant is riot games... Not valve

Low Level Learning had a good video about this: https://youtu.be/VtHlMTc8lR4

Oops, autocorrect. Let me edit that

What helps solve all of this is not playing online hype games. Single player ftw.

But it at least stops cheating, right? Right?

How else would I get my hourly dose of homophobic insults on voice from teenagers with barely broken voices?! Not to mention being frequently informed that my 70 year old mom is a prostitute. If I try and simulate the multiplayer experience on a single player game by insulting myself, it's just not the same.