AMD Might Have Overlooked A Major Flaw Within Its Anti-Lag+ Feature & It Is Getting Gamers Banned In eSports Titles

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AMD recently released its Anti-Lag+ feature which is meant to improve latency in games but it can also get you banned from your favorite eSports title.

AMD's Anti-Lag+ is a feature that is embedded within the Radeon Adrenalin Edition drivers and can be toggled on or off through the driver suite. The implementation is directly targeted at the NVIDIA Reflex technology which is similar in the sense that it also helps reduce system latencies, especially when frame generation is enabled within games. But these two technologies can also be enabled in non-frame generation scenarios to improve overall frame pacing and latencies in unoptimized titles that are an abundant occurrence on PCs these days.

However, yesterday, we saw the very first reports and also the first confirmation that the AMD Anti Lag+ suite is not only modifying game files, but it is modifying them in such a way that can lead to permanent bans. Valve officially confirmed Anti-Lag+ as the main culprit behind why so many users were getting VAC banned on Steam while playing the game.

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

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.

Once AMD ships an update we…

— CS2 (@CounterStrike) October 13, 2023

All players had one thing in common which was the use of Anti-Lag+ and running the game on an AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPU. The AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPUs with RDNA 3 architecture are the only cards that support Anti-Lag+.

So why is this happening?

You see, the AMD Anti-Lag+ solution is implemented on the driver side rather than within the game modules. So when you enable Anti-Lag+ for