{"id":656390,"date":"2026-06-24T21:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656390\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T21:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:40:10","slug":"riot-now-lets-you-enable-its-anti-cheat-when-you-want-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656390\/","title":{"rendered":"Riot now lets you enable its anti-cheat when you want to"},"content":{"rendered":"

If League of Legends and Valorant players have the right hardware and elect to opt into \u201cpre-boot security mechanisms and Windows\u2019 own native protection features,\u201d then, starting today, they can switch the Vanguard anti-cheat software from always-on to one that\u2019s \u201con demand.\u201d With \u201cVanguard Pre-Check,\u201d the kernel-level driver won\u2019t launch when your system does, according to a blog post<\/a> from Phillip Koskinas, Riot\u2019s head of anti-cheat.<\/p>\n

Riot is able to introduce this new feature now after working with the Xbox OS Security Team at Microsoft on improvements to the Windows kernel that lock out the kind of driver and memory exploits that cheats use to employ wallhacks, aimbot, triggerbot, and other tools. To solve the problem of knowing if cheats have been loaded without running 24\/7, Riot is tapping into a Windows security feature called the Runtime Driver Attestation Report<\/a> that it relies on for a secured list of the device drivers loaded since boot.<\/p>\n

Running at least Windows 11 25H2 is part of the requirement, which he says is \u201cmostly because the driver attestation report was only initially added in this version, but it\u2019s also because, due to the natural progression of security, it gets more convenient to cheat the older your operating system is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pre-Check is optional \u2014 \u201cyou only need to do anything if you\u2019d like to enable on-demand mode, which will allow Vanguard to launch when the game does and remain running only while you\u2019re playing a Riot title,\u201d Koskinas says. Newer PCs typically ship with the required features enabled, and 35 percent of players already meet the requirements to use Vanguard Pre-Check. If you\u2019re in that group, you\u2019ll be able to switch to on-demand mode \u201cwith your very next update.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other 65 percent of players will have to make some changes if they want to use Vanguard on-demand to flip on the on-demand mode. According to Koskinas, you\u2019ll need to:<\/p>\n

\u201cMost new machines today are already tested and shipped with these settings enabled by default, so this Vanguard update is only an optional incentive for those that wish to take advantage of it right now,\u201d Koskinas says. \u201cIf that isn\u2019t something you want to do, don\u2019t sweat it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If League of Legends and Valorant players have the right hardware and elect to opt into \u201cpre-boot security…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,205,59,50,16332,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-656390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-entertainment","tag-gaming","tag-gb","tag-news","tag-pc-gaming","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}