Someone buys a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D. “Valorant” and other Riot games won’t start with it because the previous owner was a cheater.

Someone buys a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D. “Valorant” and other Riot games won’t start with it because the previous owner was a cheater.

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    2120·
    20 hours ago

    How the hell. Does the CPU have a serial number that’s visible to the system?

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      535·
      20 hours ago

      Does the CPU have a serial number that’s visible to the system?

      “I didn’t read the article that attempts to explain this and explicitly states CPUs don’t have a unique ID.”

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
      23·
      20 hours ago

      It is unclear how Riot uniquely identifies processors. While CPUs report a hardware ID to the operating system, they only reveal which model it is. A Ryzen 7 5800X3D, for example, is not distinguishable from another Ryzen 7 5800X3D without further ado.

      Intel’s Pentium 3 processors from 1999 untypically had unique identifiers. At the time, they caused protests: data protectionists feared that the readable serial number would act like a permanent cookie and make users trackable without gaps.

      Riot could create hardware fingerprints for tracking, for example, with a combination of clock behavior and voltages. Each processor behaves slightly differently and can thus be identified.

      • ルルㇲ@retrofed.comOPEnglish
        81·
        19 hours ago

        data protectionists feared that the readable serial number would act like a permanent cookie and make users trackable without gaps.

        oh no, our age is showing. quick, cue gen α brainrot!

          • ルルㇲ@retrofed.comOPEnglish
            41·
            19 hours ago

            I pray you don’t go to playstores.
            We survived shockwaveGame brainrot,
            we’ll survive J2MErot.
            It’s bad bad bad bad bad bad bad.

            • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              19 hours ago

              I couldn’t care less for mobile games. I don’t even use normal Android or PlayStore. My reply was more of a joke. Currently we are also living through AiGame braintrot, especially on PC.

              • ルルㇲ@retrofed.comOPEnglish
                11·
                19 hours ago

                My reply was more of a joke.

                same. look up the dates of shockwave & J2ME. I am implying we always had brainrot. The issue is that some choose to be addicted. We choose to circumvent.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      19 hours ago

      However, from the studio’s perspective, it would be much easier to write identification hashes into the Trusted Platform Module. Because this TPM sits as a coprocessor directly in the CPU in most PCs, the hash remains when switching to a new PC.

        • lath@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          18 hours ago

          Apologies. It would seem those are specific for Intel CPUs only. My mistake.

          For AMD CPUs there seems to be a unique serial number. It is engraved physically on it, but I have yet to find how to view it through software check.

          • ルルㇲ@retrofed.comOPEnglish
            31·
            13 hours ago

            oic. I thought you were abbreviating some slang I have yet to learn.

            AMD uses OPN🔗.

            On Riot games, all it had to do was
            # wmic cpu get serialnumber