Why do people need to uninstall Valorant in order to play Battlefield 6?

It didn’t take long for the hackers to invade the Battlefield 6 beta in its first weekend. However, EA showed that they came prepared, as the anti-cheat system of the upcoming game, Javelin, thrashed over 300k cheating attempts on the spot.Seeing the capability of this anti-cheat software, fans have already started dreaming about a cleaner gameplay experience when the game finally gets released on October 10. However, Valorant fans might not be able to live up to this dream, at least for now.

The tussle between Valorant’s Vanguard and Battlefield 6’s Javelin

In the list of anti-cheat software in video games, Riot Games’ Vanguard is placed at a high spot due to its reputation for catching cheaters and hackers more quickly than most of its contemporaries.

With regular updates from Riot, Vanguard has made their lives much easier for the fans of Valorant. But you might need to uninstall this game if you want to play the Battlefield 6 beta on PC.Many fans have complained that a dialogue box appeared on their systems directly asking them to uninstall Valorant because of it, and Battlefield 6 beta failed to start, citing a “general software incompatibility” issue. Now, the main reason behind this conflict is the respective anti-cheat software of both games.

As both of them are kernel-level software, they require deep system access. That is why either of the systems is perceiving the other one as a security violation. Not only that, but many reports also suggest that forcefully activating both Javelin and Vanguard together led to hard reboots, which indicated severe system-level clashes between the two programs.Not only Javelin or Vanguard, but the majority of the popular gaming developers have opted to choose kernel-level anti-cheat software, like Ricochet in Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone, BattlEye in PUBG, EAC in Fortnite, and many more.

Now, as these software have in-depth access to your system, these conflicting issues are quite evident. Not only that, but this kind of software can also make systems vulnerable and put user data at risk.It’s quite sure that EA will soon bring a fix to this issue, and players won’t have this problem at launch. But this small dialogue box can be an indication of how much bigger the concern can become in terms of kernel-level anti-cheat systems in video games in the near future. Read More: Is Battlefield 6's Javelin anti-cheat system better than Black Ops 6's Ricochet?