Unlaunched: AMD Anti-Lag+ Gets Taken Offline With Latest Driver Update
Unlaunched: AMD Anti-Lag+ Gets Taken Offline With Latest Driver Update
Following the incident of Counter-Strike 2 players getting accidentally banned through Valve Anti-cheat (VAC) due to AMD’s Radeon Anti-Lag+ feature (among numerous others), the company has slammed the emergency button and immediately delivers the AMD Software 23.10.2 driver which effectively disables the feature until the issue gets fixed.
AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.10.2 is now available.
Release notes and download: https://t.co/VB03hBsdpJ pic.twitter.com/OdKch1Gf77
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The Radeon Anti-Lag+ feature is intended for Radeon RX 7000 series owners to have even better latency reductions, through per-game optimizations on the driver-level. However, the implementation of the technology was described by Valve as similar to those of cheating tools (by performing code injection in DLL files), which is quite the surefire way to trigger anti-cheat systems due to their highly stringent (and arguably, rather blanket) approach in recent years.
In contrast, NVIDIA Reflex instead relies on developers to actively implement the feature, which negates the need to perform code injections like Radeon Anti-Lag+ does. That comes at a penalty of slower rollout, though NVIDIA’s dominant position in the GPU market has earned them the luxury to slowly but surely roll out the feature one game after another, whereas AMD had to play catchup in order to achieve some level of feature parity.
At this time, AMD is actively contacting developers – including Valve – to solve the issues related to the technology. Those who are still on the older driver with the feature are advised to disable the feature (at least for online games) until further notice, however you should be fine in offline games if you prefer to have the option available for the time being.
Source: Videocardz
Pokdepinion: Not a good time being an AMD GPU user right now. Hang in there, people!
