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Battlefield 6 open beta won't run if you have Valorant installed, thanks to Riot's anti-cheat — uninstall if you plan to joint the second open beta this weekend
Turf war inside the kernel.
Modern hacks work by reading (or sometimes writing) a game’s memory — turning raw values, such as a random string of digits, into actionable information, such as revealing an enemy’s position behind a certain wall. Kernel-level anti-cheats counter this by monitoring memory access at the same privilege level — killing the exploit before it can feed the player any unfair advantage. It’s not EA playing the saint, it’s a turf war in the kernel — which results in an anti-cheat landscape so territorial that certain games simply can’t run side-by-side.
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