Question Is Valorant the only game so far to require TPM 2.0/Secure Boot on Windows 11? Does it also require an 8th gen or later CPU?

[Cyber_Akuma]

While I don't play Valorant (and after hearing about how intrusive it's anti-cheat is, never will), the fact that it requires this kind of stuff for it's anti-cheat if you're playing on Windows 11 worries me that other games might start enforcing such requirements too in the future. A big part of that worry is that due to Windows 10 hitting EoL in 2025 I am going to basically be forced to upgrade to 11, and I have systems still work perfectly fine even for gaming that don't meet the nonsense "8th gen or later" CPU requirement. I know you can still force-install Windows 11 on those, but if games start enforcing this kind of requirement left and right after the death of 10 it's going to be problematic for me.

Thing is many of my systems, the ones I would use for gaming still anyway, support Secure Boot and TPM 2.0, they just have older CPUs. I have only heard of the anti-cheat in Valorant requiring Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 to be enabled, not about the CPU requirement. Does it also enforce that you need an 8th gen CPU or later too? Or if you just have TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot enabled but have an older CPU it will still work?

 

[Colif]

Valorants anti cheat needs those rights, so any games that use Vanguard.
League of Legends is the other one I know of that uses it.

its annoying it does need it as people would turn it on in bios not realising you need to do other things (like actually have windows installed on a GPT drive to begin with) before you can simply just swap to Secure boot. And then come into forums like this and ask for help... if they just had a note in the instructions explaining what was needed forums wouldn't have been involved.

I don't know of any others that do the same.

Vanguard thinks it owns your PC and can stop other things from running. That is enough to not install it, in my eyes.

windows 11 doesn't need Secure Boot turned on, the PC just needs to be able to run it. I have had win 11 for 3 years now and never turned Secure boot on. So its a bit much that a game requires more than windows does. Whose PC is it anyway?

I don't know of any CPU requirement on Valorant besides the obvious minimum requirements to play it... looks... minimum still appears to be a core 2 Duo... so any CPU made in the last 16 years should work.

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has to be said that its obvious a low spec pc with that CPU wouldn't have win 11 installed on it and would be painfull to force 11 onto it, and also try to play Valorant on hardware... so they could have spelled out minimum needed for 11 but they didn't. BY needing certain TPM versions they are excluding hardware. So you might be right.

if its an old PC with windows 10 on it, I would just stay on 10. Really, losing support doesn't mean a lot. I ran older versions of windows for years after they lost support. If you never need their help, who cares? If its about anti virus, get a 3rd party or pay to continue to get updates - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended-security-updates