# New Windows user profile or seperate OS for games with a kernel based anticheat?

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/new-windows-user-profile-or-seperate-os-for-games-with-a-kernel-based-anticheat/19941
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2024-08-08T10:07:18Z
**Posts:** 6

## Post 1 by @Fastball8914 — 2024-08-08T10:07:18Z

Hey, I’ve really been wanting to play Valorant, but their ‘[kernal-mode anticheat](https://www.pcgamer.com/the-controversy-over-riots-vanguard-anti-cheat-software-explained/)’ really worries me. Would playing on a different user profile be enough to stop it from checking out everything on my main profile?

That’s the question really

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## Post 2 by @lepras — 2024-08-08T10:35:55Z

I don’t think kernel based anything would not have access to all profiles.

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## Post 3 by @anon73250778 — 2024-08-08T11:12:09Z

Might as well use that gaming machine as a dedicated computer for gaming and maybe get a laptop or another computer for a more secure and private use case.

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## Post 4 by @BionicBison — 2024-08-08T14:23:05Z

Your best bet would probably be a separate operating system on an encrypted drive/partition so that you’re not simply relying on any form of software access control (which likely wouldn’t apply to something running at the lowest level). I don’t think a whole separate computer is necessary, but it certainly is a valid strategy.

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## Post 5 by @anonymous208 — 2024-08-08T17:52:37Z

if you have a console play it on that instead

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## Post 6 by @anon73250778 — 2024-08-08T22:40:18Z

I have been considering console but it requires an account be it Xbox/Playstation/Nintendo(?) and you can still make a Windows installation that is local only. This is sort of invalidated if you are playing something like Minecraft or subscribe to PSN, and/or the XBox Game Pass (does Nintendo even have an equivalent?).

What matters is that it is isolated in its network