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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.

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[–] DV8@lemmy.world 110 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] 3ntranced@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Trade bans scare me. With thousands of dollars of virtual skins, if you get banned, you can't sell anything.