Riot says it’s weighing a plan to require BIOS updates for all players in Valorant’s top competitive tiers (Ascendant, Immortal, and Radiant), where there’s more incentive to try to evade anti-cheat measures. Riot anti-cheat analyst Mohamed Al-Sharifi also indicates the same limits could be enabled for League of Legends, although they aren’t active now. If Vanguard prevents users from playing, they’ll have to download and apply the latest motherboard BIOS update before they can start the game.
Newer PCs are getting patched; older PCs might not be
An AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D installed on a motherboard using a 500-series chipset. It’s not clear whether these somewhat older systems require a fix or will receive one.
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Andrew Cunningham
The flaw has been reported to affect four major motherboard manufacturers: ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI. Each vendor has released updates for some of their newer boards, with additional updates scheduled for others. According to the vulnerability note, it remains unclear whether OEM systems from Dell, Lenovo, Acer, or HP are impacted.
ASRock’s security bulletin says the issue affects Intel boards built on 500-, 600-, 700-, and 800-series chipsets; MSI only mentions 600- and 700-series chipsets. Asus omits the 800-series as well but notes the vulnerability can affect older Intel 400-series chipsets; Gigabyte covers Intel 600–800-series chipsets and is the only vendor to call out patches for AMD’s 600- and 800-series chipsets (basically, any motherboard with an AM5 socket).
Taken together, those chipsets include Intel Core processors from the 10th generation onward and AMD Ryzen 7000-series and later.
What isn’t clear is whether the chipsets and boards left out of some vendors’ notices don’t need updates, are planned to be patched but haven’t been listed, or won’t receive fixes at all. The advisories at least indicate Intel 400- and 500-series chipsets and AMD 600- and 800-series chipsets could be vulnerable, but not every vendor has committed to providing updates for them.
