2023-10-13 20:29:00
Read in full version 13.10.2023 23:29, Dmitry Rud The day before, AMD released the Radeon Software Adrenalin 23.10.1 WHQL driver, which included Anti-Lag+ support for Counter-Strike 2. However, as it turned out, playing with this function in a team Valve’s shooter is not safe. Image source: Valve Shortly after the release of the mentioned driver, owners of AMD Radeon video cards began to report receiving a Steam account block from VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat), Valve’s anti-cheat, when playing Counter-Strike 2. The community came to the conclusion that they were falling out of favor to VAC precisely because of the Anti-Lag+ function – an analogue of NVIDIA Reflex (latency reduction technology) from AMD – and they were right. The official microblog of Counter-Strike 2 in a publication dated October 13 confirmed the guesses of gamers and advised not to enable Anti-Lag+ in the game (the function is available on video cards of the Radeon RX 7000 series and newer). Image source: X (CounterStrike) As Valve explained, blocking occurs because Anti-Lag+ makes changes to the engine.dll file, and any intervention in the game code leads to the anti-cheat being triggered and, accordingly, a VAC ban. Valve does not intend to tailor its anti-cheat to the features of Anti-Lag+: “As soon as AMD releases the update, we will be able to get to work identifying affected users and canceling their blocking.” The situation with bans for playing Counter-Strike 2 when using Anti-Lag+ is already the second reason for frustration among fans in the last 24 hours. The first happened when the October 12 patch removed the Michael Jackson name bug from the game.
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