Epic Video games is including a brand new anti-cheat requirement for Fortnite tournaments for PC gamers, although it is not one thing most folk are going to have to fret about. Beginning February 19, those that wish to play in Fortnite tournaments on PC must have IOMMU safety (input-output reminiscence administration) enabled, along with the beforehand required SecureBoot and TPM. The excellent news is that almost all everybody enjoying on Home windows 11 will have already got this enabled, because it’s usually enabled by default on appropriate motherboards.
IOMMU, like TPM, is one other technique to guard towards cheaters utilizing {hardware} cheats, whereas the Straightforward Anti-Cheat utility handles the software program aspect of issues. Observe that this new requirement is only for tournaments. IOMMU will not be required in case you’re simply enjoying informal or ranked Battle Royale with your folks. When you attempt to play a match whereas IOMMU is off, you will not be banned–the recreation merely will not allow you to play. Learn about how to enable IOMMU here.
The subject of dishonest in Fortnite has been a typical one since Epic unbanned past cheaters a yr in the past to present them a second chance–since then, gamers on social media typically baselessly declare the transfer has led to a dishonest epidemic. In the meantime, Epic has been taking authorized motion towards cheaters and forcing them to apologize publicly a number of instances over the previous yr.
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