Ban risk with Valorant?

[kumasiu]

Hi, thanks for the tool, it's exactly what I was looking for.

Before I use it with Valorant, I wanted to ask : is there any known issue with Riot Vanguard flagging or banning accounts for using this?

I know Vanguard runs a kernel-level driver even outside of games, and it sometimes reacts badly to third-party tools that touch display/GPU settings.

Has anyone reported issues, or do you know if this has been tested specifically with Valorant running ?

[0skater0]

Hey, I haven't tested it with Valorant or League of Legends myself, so I can't tell you how Vanguard reacts to it. If someone here has used it with either, that would be useful to hear.

For what it's worth: I used it with Escape from Tarkov (BattlEye) without issues, and a few other people have mentioned they run it with Tarkov too. Other games I've tried it in don't have anti-cheat that would be a useful reference for Vanguard.

The app itself doesn't do the kind of things anti-cheats usually flag: no kernel driver, no injection into any game process, no memory reads or writes against a protected process. At runtime it makes a handful of user-mode NvAPI calls: one that writes a brightness/contrast/gamma LUT into the display pipeline (NvAPI_DISP_SetTargetGammaCorrection), plus separate calls for digital vibrance and hue. Those are the same driver-level API paths the NVIDIA Control Panel uses when you drag its sliders. Vanguard runs in the kernel and its heuristics are closed source though, so I can't promise anything for it specifically.

[kumasiu]

Small update from my side: tested it with Valorant. Played quite a few ranked games with the tool running the whole time and so far nothing's wrong, no warnings, no flags, nothing. Vanguard doesn't seem to be reacting to it at all.

Gonna leave it on and let you know if anything changes, but for now it looks safe on Valorant too