AMD's Anti-Lag technology causes en masse Counter-Strike 2 bans

Counter-Strike 2 was released by Valve on the Steam platform on September 27. It's more of an upgrade to the existing CS:GO title than a full-blown sequel to the popular competitive game, and most people embraced it, knowing that the Counter-Strike formula has been perfected so much over the years that it's difficult to improve upon in giant leaps.

However, some Counter-Strike 2 players running the game on AMD systems might be tempted to improve the game and gaming experience through AMD's Anti-Lag and Anti-Lag+ features, which recently became available for CS2 through an AMD driver update. The official @CounterStrike X (formerly Twitter) strongly advises against it.

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Don't enable AMD Anti-Lag, or you'll get a VAC ban

The CS2 X account explains, in short, that AMD's latest driver – the one that enables Anti-Lag and Anti-Lag+ for CS2 – works by detouring engine DLL (Dynamic Link Library) functions.

In other words, the Anti-Lag feature in AMD's latest driver tempers with CS2 code, which means anyone enabling the feature will get a VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat) ban.

Thankfully, anyone who has already been VAC-banned because of AMD's Anti-Lag / Anti-Lag+ feature will have their bans reversed once AMD ships an update, but at the moment, there's no ETA.

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