Valve begins rolling back CS2 bans for AMD Anti-Lag+ players

Valve says it has begun reversing bans on Counter-Strike 2 players who were banned for using AMD’s Anti-Lag+ software. The anti-cheating software mistook this software for cheating software and therefore banned an unknown number of players.

With an update released on Thursday says Valve to conduct a start-up check to see if players are running ‘incompatible’ AMD drivers and says it will reverse the VAC bans of affected players from Thursday. Last week it emerged that players using Anti-Lag+ were being banned in Counter-Strike 2. The Anti-Lag+ function, which only works with RX 7000 video cards, adjusts the DLL files of the game engine. This was deemed ‘CS code tampering’ by Valve Anti-Cheat, resulting in players being banned.

After the issue became known, AMD temporarily disabled the latency reduction feature for all games. It was also said at the time that the player bans would be reversed, although it was not stated at the time when this would be. It is also unclear when Anti-Lag+ should work again. AMD says it is in discussions with developers to prevent anti-cheating software from treating the use of the feature as cheating.