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14.10.2023 16:19, Pavel Kotov
The other day, Valve announced a problem with automatically issuing VAC bans to Counter-Strike 2 players, allegedly for cheating, but in fact related to the AMD Anti-Lag+ function and modification of one of the DLL files. After this, game fans began to actively report other similar incidents – other online games were also affected, in particular, Call of Duty and Apex Legends.
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In response to constantly improving cheating methods, which are mainly expressed in intrusion into the game’s graphics engine, developers have to implement more stringent measures – tools for detecting anomalies in general in any game files. This mainly applies to multiplayer games, in which the activities of cheaters cause significant discomfort to the entire community. That’s why the VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat) system began banning users who enabled the AMD Anti-Lag+ function in Counter-Strike 2 – it modifies the game’s DLL file, which the system regards as an attempt to cheat.
So far, the only solution to the problem, AMD said, is to disable this function. And for those who have already received a VAC ban because of this, she promised an amnesty in the future. Gamers began to report more frequent crashes in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2.0 – when AMD Anti-Lag+ was activated, games began to crash, usually when launching multiplayer modes; and also in Apex Legends – account bans are practiced here, even if the account has been inactive for several months. A similar function, NVIDIA Reflex, does not cause such problems – it is not implemented at the driver level, but is supplied as a separate library, which game developers add individually. It is worth noting that Anti-Lag+ is only supported by AMD Radeon RX 7000 video cards, so owners of previous generation models are not affected by the problem.