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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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[–] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If there is a VAC ban on your account that people can look up servers on other games might ban you as well.

[–] berg@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, there's a possibility. But since it hasn't happened in 10+ years I doubt it's a problem.

My friend can't play Hell Let Loose because of a game ban on a completely different game. Different anticheat, and different publisher. So. I would be shocked if a VAC ban wouldn't cause the same issues.