Quote Originally Posted by Johners View Post
Vanguard functions no differently to any other anti-cheat, it's just Riot configured Valorant to be more sensitive to any triggers. You outright can't log into the game if it's disabled (other games do this anyway) and it'll disconnect you if it senses anything obviously wrong during gameplay. As a competitive shooter this ultimately makes sense because ensuring all matches are fair is best for the health of the game.

Gshade wouldn't trigger an anti-cheat though and NVIDIA even ship a Gshade-equivalent called Reshade as part of their driver software.
You'd be surprised. Razer synapse has triggered some of the anticheat softwares [Lost Ark logged me out when I turned on Synapse because it tripped EAC]