If you have a motherboard from a manufacturer such as ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI or ASRock, you will no longer be able to play Valorant until you update your BIOS.
This year, Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 asked some PC players to check their BIOS and turn on the Secure Boot option. Riot’s shooter Valuing went a step further than that, becoming probably the first game that asks PC players to update the BIOS to the latest version.
More precisely, it is not required of all players, but of those who have motherboards from manufacturers such as ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte i ASRock. I mean, there are other manufacturers on the market, but the motherboards of these companies are used by probably 90% of PC gamers.
The reason is that cheaters have recently found ways to cheat Riot’s anti-cheat protection called Vanguard through a hardware flaw in motherboards. The only way to stop this is for all players to be on the latest BIOS versions.
Asus board owners should download BIOS version CVE-2025-11901, Gigabyte board users should update their BIOS to CVE-2025-14302, MSI users should look for CVE-2025-14303, and ASRock boards should update to CVE-2025-14304.
Players who don’t update their motherboards they won’t be able to access Valorant until they do. Which is a very drastic measure, especially since updating the BIOS is not entirely harmless and can go wrong in some cases.