Vanguard and Windows 11
Hi,
Just to say I have been playing Valorant since the beginning on Windows 10. At that time Vanguard was already a pain often asking to reboot to work and I have experienced a lot of issue. But since I upgraded to Windows 11 I have been unable to play because of error VAN9003 for Vanguard. Yes I know how you theorically fix this. You have to enable secure boot on your motherboard UEFI setup (Asrock motherboard), play between standard and custom mode, disable CSM (compatibility mode), enabled AMD fTPM, etc. but doing so always result in bricking my computer where I can't access neither my bootolader nor the UEFI setup menu. To unbrick, each time I have to open my PC case, unmount my GPU, remove the CMOS mother board battery, reboot with the battery off, let the PC reboot in loop 3 times in order to reset the BIOS configuration, put the CMOS battery back on and then remount the GPU. Just to say that Vanguard is such a terrible pain!! I understand in order to guarantee a high level of anti-cheat you put a hook on Windows kernel to protect the anti-cheat from driver level bypass exploits. But I don't many other competitive games have an anti-cheat software that is totally transparent and never mess with the user experience. Or AntiviRus vendors use Windows kernel hook too but without an issue while on Vanguard everyone playing valorant have experienced a Vanguard issue a least once. So here I don't have any option to continue to play Valorant except reinstalling Windows and downgrade to Windows 10. Of course I won't do that so I uninstalled Valorant. Cheers.
Just to say I have been playing Valorant since the beginning on Windows 10. At that time Vanguard was already a pain often asking to reboot to work and I have experienced a lot of issue. But since I upgraded to Windows 11 I have been unable to play because of error VAN9003 for Vanguard. Yes I know how you theorically fix this. You have to enable secure boot on your motherboard UEFI setup (Asrock motherboard), play between standard and custom mode, disable CSM (compatibility mode), enabled AMD fTPM, etc. but doing so always result in bricking my computer where I can't access neither my bootolader nor the UEFI setup menu. To unbrick, each time I have to open my PC case, unmount my GPU, remove the CMOS mother board battery, reboot with the battery off, let the PC reboot in loop 3 times in order to reset the BIOS configuration, put the CMOS battery back on and then remount the GPU. Just to say that Vanguard is such a terrible pain!! I understand in order to guarantee a high level of anti-cheat you put a hook on Windows kernel to protect the anti-cheat from driver level bypass exploits. But I don't many other competitive games have an anti-cheat software that is totally transparent and never mess with the user experience. Or AntiviRus vendors use Windows kernel hook too but without an issue while on Vanguard everyone playing valorant have experienced a Vanguard issue a least once. So here I don't have any option to continue to play Valorant except reinstalling Windows and downgrade to Windows 10. Of course I won't do that so I uninstalled Valorant. Cheers.
