{"id":915237,"date":"2026-10-04T00:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915237\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T00:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:22:11","slug":"valorant-player-banned-due-to-previous-cpu-owners-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915237\/","title":{"rendered":"Valorant Player Banned Due To Previous CPU Owner\u2019s Cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deus ex machina. Ghost in the machine. There can be secrets dwelling in our computer parts. Corrupted files. Spyware. Unused memes. Rarely paranormal spirits, but sometimes a previous life will linger. One German Valorant player reportedly experienced an unforeseen interruption<\/a> when they were unceremoniously blocked from the game. Were they caught for cheating? No. But the previous owner of their used CPU was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI launched Valorant and was immediately kicked out,\u201d posted Reddit user After-Cartoonist-196<\/a>. \u201cI found this strange because the game ran fine with my previous CPU. When I contacted Riot, I was told that my CPU ID\/serial number is blacklisted in the Vanguard system; it had been hit with a hardware ban on August 12th because the previous owner apparently used it to cheat in Valorant.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the poster, they purchased a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D on Kleinanzeigen, a German eBay alternative, in late September. Saving a few euros on the sought after hardware, but unable to exercise the gear on a round of Valorant, they discovered the part was tagged internally by Vanguard, Riot\u2019s infamous internal anti-cheat detection<\/a>. In a follow up comment, the poster says that even if they were to swap out the CPU for another, Riot informed them that all the parts in their rig had been similarly smeared by the cursed microchip. Short of buying an entirely new rig, \u201cthere is nothing\u201d they can do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m leaving the post up anyway,\u201d says the post, failing to source a clean solution, \u201cperhaps it will help save someone else from a similar situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps finally answering the ship of Theseus quandary, this wild coincidence illustrates just how thorough anti-cheating technology can be. How far-reaching a digital fingerprint will travel, even when someone else is wearing the glove. Popular anti-cheat systems are capable of tagging individual computer components, from the motherboard all the way down to fancier ethernet cables. It\u2019s not the first time Vanguard has been called overzealous<\/a>, but as high performance computer parts become a hot commodity, inflating in price and scarcity, how they\u2019ll ultimately be tracked can\u2019t help but leave someone feeling a little haunted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deus ex machina. Ghost in the machine. There can be secrets dwelling in our computer parts. Corrupted files.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13267,64,63,353,31943,299482,105,482657],"class_list":["post-915237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-amd","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cheating","tag-pc-gaming","tag-riot-games","tag-technology","tag-valorant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}