

That additional lag reduction could offer players a bit of a competitive advantage in these games (with the usual arguments about whether that advantage is "unfair" or not). That method leads to additional lag reduction of up to 10 ms, according to AMD's data. But the newer Anti-Lag+ system-which was first rolled out for a handful of games last month-updates this system by "applying frame alignment within the game code itself," according to AMD. In a subsequent October 19 update to Counter-Strike 2, Valve said it had "added a startup check for incompatible AMD graphics drivers" and would "now begin reversing VAC bans for affected players." AdvertisementĪMD first introduced regular Anti-Lag mitigation in its drivers back in 2019, limiting input lag by reducing the amount of queued CPU work when the processor was getting too far ahead of the GPU frame processing. "We will provide more information when available." "AMD is actively working with game developers on a solution to re-enable Anti-Lag+ and support them in reinstating gamers who were impacted by the anti-cheat bans," the company wrote. October 17, AMD had released an Adrenalin Edition version 23.10.2 update, which addressed "reports of some games triggering anti-cheat bans on gamers when AMD Anti-Lag+ technology is enabled on Radeon graphics" by "disabl Anti-Lag+ technology in all supported games." "If you are an AMD customer and play CS2, DO NOT ENABLE ANTI-LAG/+ any tampering with CS code will result in a VAC ban."īy.


"AMD's latest driver has made their 'Anti-Lag/+' feature available for CS2, which is implemented by detouring engine dll functions," Valve wrote on social media on October 13.

Valve has announced that it will begin reversing bans incurred by Counter-Strike 2 players that used an AMD "Anti-Lag+" driver, which started setting off the Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) system earlier this month.ĪMD took down version 23.10.1 of its AMD Adrenalin Edition graphics driver shortly after its October 11 launch, following reports that Valve was banning Counter-Strike 2 players that used the driver's Anti-Lag+ Technology.
