Valve is now reversing VAC bans due to AMD drivers in CS2, according to patch notes
Recently there was a thing where VAC would erroneously flag AMD’s antilag+ feature as cheating, and issue a ban. AMD then quickly disabled the feature by default but now Valve also patched detection for it and is now, at least according to these patch notes, reversing the bans.
The creepy thing is there is a possibility you can loose everything you bought in the worst case, maybe forever, without you being at fault. This time it ended ok, but who knows what’s on the horizon.
With GOG I have all my games backed up thanks to DRM free policy, but with Steam…
Vac bans mean you can’t play on vac secured servers. Nothing happens to your other games. For a competitive multiplayer game some anticheat detection is wanted. People changing their dll’s to gain a competitive advantage is cheating. AMD making and distributing this unintentional cheat doesn’t change that.
I agree that buying directly or through GoG and backing up your games is the best thing to do. But this incident isn’t really related to that.
It wasn’t just Valve banning people.
windowscentral.com/…/amds-anti-lag-feature-is-wre…
People weren’t changing their DLLs, they were activating a feature on a well known and respected hardware company. (I do argee with you though that AMD is hugely at fault here though, they should have worked with online game companies about this as these cards are sold more for gaming than anything else.)
People weren’t changing their DLLs, they were activating a feature that changed their DLLs
Carighan Maconar
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