FACEIT announces significant anti-cheat update

In a considerable anti-cheat update, FACEIT rolled out new requirements such as Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, IOMMU and VBS. Players will no longer be able to queue on FACEIT unless they update their PCs to Windows 11 as FACEIT announces the end of their Windows 10 support. These requirements however have not come out of the blue, in fact, FACEIT has been rolling out changes sequentially for quite a while now.

Enabling IOMMU and other security features may have an impact on FPS and PC performance. However, the security benefits of IOMMU, which protects against DMA-based cheats, are more significant than any potential, slight performance overhead.
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In their blogpost, FACEIT describes in detail the significance of each requirement. Here's a quick breakdown:

• TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot
  Secure Boot and TPM create a verifiable report that guarantees your PC starts up without loading any unauthorized or modified software. The FACEIT Anti-Cheat can check this report before allowing a player to connect to a match on FACEIT as many advanced cheats attach to unauthorized or modified legitimate software to access the PC’s kernel.

• IOMMU and VBS
  IOMMU acts as a hardware-level firewall for RAM, restricting what plug-in devices can access which prevents DMA-card cheats from reading protected game memory and we can pair it with VBS to ensure reliable enforcement. Both IOMMU and VBS have been in limited rollout on FACEIT since April 2025