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You can't play Battlefield 6 and Valorant at the same time, here's why


The head of Riot Games' anti-cheat team Phillip Koskinas has confirmed why you can't have Battlefield 6 and Valorant running at the same time.

The head of Riot Games' anti-cheat team Phillip Koskinas has confirmed why you can't have Battlefield 6 and Valorant running at the same time. Detecting another program is messing around at the kernel level and touching things they are monitoring, the anti-cheats identify each other as potential problems and thus issues arise. Watch on YouTube The conversation around Javalin and Vanguard causing problems together stems from several posts during last weekend's Battlefield 6 open beta, in which some users were reporting error messages stopping them from playing the absurdly popular shooter while Valorant was running.

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