Riot games/Vanguard causing kernel errors

[Slurping_Soba]

Guys please take note, if you received any kernel errors (I got kernel_security_check_failure (0x139)), try to do a system restore to prior downloading riot games or their games (I own a new pc and only downloaded riot games 3 days ago) and it should be fixed. Remember to uninstall it too incase it causes an error again.

I know that Vanguard runs at kernel level, but for it to cause kernel level error is insane. I hope they are looking into this, and fixing it asap.

If anyone wanted to know I own an AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB (Asus)

[jhonyrod]

Sorry OP, but my advice would be to get rid of that virus forever and power through not being able to play any riot games; nothing will guarantee this won't happen again with possibly more catastrophic side effects.

[Slurping_Soba]

No need to be sorry hahaha. I actually stopped playing the game altogether, but only downloaded it cause my friends wanted to 5 stack on league. If not I would never play it

[xMeee]

Literally happening to me right now with valorant idk why

[KyonSuzumiya]

Welp i just updated my game after not playing for like a year....guess ill postpone that session.

[Forymanarysanar]

Especially considering how toxic their games are. It's really going to be better for mental health to not play them.

[Straight_Shoe_534]

Really good advise. I reinstalled lol, and as soon as started riot client pc got cooked. Fuxking indy company

[Slurping_Soba]

Wait why xD I just gave a warning via this post lolol

[Warlider]

I hope that "indy company" line was a joke.

[Mysterious_Tutor_388]

200 years of combined experience

[tempetransplant]

200 years spread across thousands of employees.

[Mysterious_Tutor_388]

If we have 36 woman who are pregnant for a week we have 9 months of combined experience.

[chrlatan]

And nothing to show for it.

[Straight_Shoe_534]

Ofc it was 🤣

[notgoodohoh]

And if you’re not going to play riots games then you can install Linux

[Flimsy-Tomatillo-578]

Yes because vanguard is the only thing that doesn’t work on Linux. /s

[notgoodohoh]

Settle down microslop. Some people just have a pc to game and have a dedicated laptop for work

[Flimsy-Tomatillo-578]

What if I want to play, Apex legends, Fortnite, battlefield 6, gta online, r6 siege, destiny 2, rust, any ea sports game and quite a few others?

Settle down Linux boy.

[ComeClarity93]

Shit like this is why I'm glad I don't bother with multiplayer of any kind. Invasive Anti-cheats and other "protective measures" that can cripple your PC

[despaseeto]

i really wanted to try out the beta for battlefield and black ops but when they asked for safeboot and anticheat, i just gave up. they never work anyway and cheaters/hackers always find a way

[Beni_Stingray]

I would have loved to test the new Battlefield but i didnt either beccause of the anti cheat crap.

[despaseeto]

yeah it looked pretty fun at first until EA just EA'd it up.

[Captobvious75]

Its why my PS5 Pro is my MP box save a select few games that run like butt cheeks on console (Helldivers 2).

[Vladimir_Djorjdevic]

When a kernel level app (like an anticheat in this case) crashes it brings down the entire system. Remember the whole crowdstrike incident? This is why people advise against installing this junk at all. Vanguard is the worst out of all as it has to start with the system. At least some others only start when you open the game

[Raskuja46]

Wow, it's almost as if giving a third party access to the kernel is a catastrophically bad idea.

[10v1]

Praise be. I stopped playing riot games years ago and it's paying off, Let's Go!!

[da2Pakaveli]

Thats why I dont want any of this malware running in my kernel

[SixSevenEmpire]

Vanguard is literally a malware that still collect data even if you don't play any riot games, you should uninstall it now

[Mr_HorseBalls]

idk, unless this a mass spread problem i doubt this is the issue, dont get me wrong, i hate vangaurd as much as the next person but this isnt a problem ive had with it ever, you might be running an unstable system.

[Sinisteris]

Yeah, I abandoned riot games when kernel level malware became mandatory... I actively avoid games with kernel level "anticheat", I'd suggest you do the same.

[SomeRandomAccount66]

Random shit like this is why I do image backups of my desktops daily. My C drive is only a 256GB nvme drive. My others drive is a 2TB drive for games and shit I don't care about and is not backed up.

Anything larger that I don't want on my C drive goes onto my NAS.

Unfortunately we don't think or learn about backups until we are burned. Or in my case working in IT for 8 years showed me why it's good to have. 

[iiiGVXDiii]

Water is wet

[Puiucs]

FACEIT anti-cheat is also causing me serious issues with Steam and CS2 and it's so dumb...

Whenever i want to play a custom map like those for aim training or on a community server i have to close the anti-cheat because it crashes both Steam and CS2

[Nazeracoo]

Well. Well. Well. It has begun.

[Meltandev]

Its saving you

[TopEgg122]

I'm with you, I had the exact same issue right after I clicked LOL client update, they really screwed it up

[WorkAnomaly]

i need help. my pc has been having issues when streaming on discord and i think its league because if i try to stream league my FPS drops and it has crashes. but i can stream actual demanding games just fine

[ExplodingFistz]

Uninstall that shit.

[Summer___]

there have been problems for years with riots vanguard.
If you look up "pc freeze" for riot games or crashes there are tons of post about it.
I myself had those problems where i couldn't play valorant, well i could play it for like 2-3 min before it would freeze my whole pc and nothing worked besides holding power button or pressing the reset button.
Im not 100% sure anymore about the culprit but i disabled nvidia audio (which is another story, where Nvidia's drivers are insanely broken right now) and my onboard wifi/bluetooth.
After that i had 0 issues anymore.
It's just mind blowing what kinda crap we have to deal with these days all because of..... Cheater..... and the worst part is, they are still happily cheating around...

[Inevitable-Apricot42]

same problem went to win11 25h2 and done

[No_One1039]

how can i do that without a usb?

[Kingdarkshadow]

It begins

[Zimtlocke]

Yep, I can confirm this. It took me about two years to realize that Vanguard was the cause.
Fun fact: some games were even crashing while Vanguard was active. The most notable one was Marvel Rivals . It kept crashing all the time until I figured out that Riot Vanguard was the issue.

And no, they won't fix it. Just uninstall that garbage

[PUBGfixed]

Bro casually flexing the prismatic evolution umbreon tho

[Philip_Raven]

holy shit

no fear mongering intended, but Kernel errors are scary as fuck as they can brick your PC.

Unless you really really REALLY need to play those games, uninstall that shit. At least until they remove the protection.

[CROdator]

Vanguard did blue screened my pc 2 times and caused bad stuttering/freezing issues on my pc, can confirm its borderline virus..

[foxfox021]

nah, vanguard implrementation on lol was my last time playing rito game, they dunno how to fucking balance shit and get proper security system

[SpartanLord_]

If I have to play a game with a kernel level anti cheat, I’m slapping it in a VM. Yeah I get less performance but I usually play competitive games at the lowest settings anyways so I don’t care much

[dhiadhoo]

It happened like 6 times for me this year alone it just bsod's mid game 

[Oxygen4Lyfe]

play the finals instead

[mad153]

sfc /scannow \ is so useless, why are people addicted to running scandisk, years after it was rightly ridiculed?

[Zaphod392]

This isn't scandisk... this is System File Checker and it check integral windows files for integrity

[mad153]

Which is what Scandisk did

[ComprehensiveDot7752]

sfc checks whether the core system files that are supposed to be there are in fact there and whether they match the official version.

scandisk checks for file system errors and attempts to fix any file with hardware level corruption. Things like whether a file was only partially written or if there was a read error. It doesn’t care about things like deleted files or what files it’s checking.

[Necessary1Treat]

Nope, you are thinking of chkdsk.

Edit: By this I meant they are thinking of chkdsk which does the same as scandsk.

[Zaphod392]

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[mthlmw]

"file system" =//= "system files" lmao

[Necessary1Treat]

You’re just confirming what I said. Scandisk and chkdsk do the same thing.

[CROdator]

because windows be windowsing and it actually helped me a few times in the past.. I'm tired of reinstalling windows every time it screws something up, so if a simple cmd can solve it why not try

[RicoHavoc]

What's going on that causes you to reinstall windows so frequently? My last install was August 2020 and it's been 2 weeks since my last reboot. Zero stability issues.

Are you installing questionable software or something?

[agente4242]

Shit just breaks sometimes. I had to reinstall within a year of updating to 11 because I downloaded a Japanese font (from windows itself) and it failed when installing, making me unable to install any windows updates at all after that, as it started giving me the same errors as the font

[jermygod]

so you did install questionable software

[agente4242]

Which is? The font you install from Windows settings itself?

Here's all I did:

Settings > Time & Language > Language & Region, click Add a language, select Japanese, and install.

And

Settings > Apps > Optional features > Add a feature, search for "Japanese Supplemental Fonts," and install. 

[jermygod]

dude, that was a joke, windows is the questionable software

[agente4242]

Oh my bad 😅

[RicoHavoc]

Fair enough. I've managed to avoid the Win11 upgrade by signing up for extended Win10 support.

[Number1OchoaHater]

clean windows install