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Riot now lets you enable its anti-cheat when you want to

The Verge · Jun 24, 2026, 5:00 PM · Also reported by 1 other source

If League of Legends and Valorant players have the right hardware and elect to opt into "pre-boot security mechanisms and Windows' own native protection features," then, starting today, they can switch the Vanguard anti-cheat software from always-on to one that's "on demand." With "Vanguard Pre-Check," the kernel-level driver won't launch when your system does, according to a blog post from Phillip Koskinas, Riot's head of anti-cheat. 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 … Read the full story at The Verge.

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