Riot Games Comments on Vanguard Bricking PCs Rumors

Riot Games says Vanguard is not damaging PCs, pushing back on viral claims that an update was “bricking” devices.

The company says the protections only block DMA cheating hardware from working in its games, including Valorant and League of Legends.

Riot says the system relies on hardware security measures such as IOMMU, not on disabling computers or storage devices like SATA or NVMe.

The clarification is meant to address confusion over anti-cheat changes and the growing use of hardware-level defenses against cheats.