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Valve is now reversing VAC bans due to AMD drivers in CS2, according to patch notes (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

A good time to share this:

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

[-] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

And to be clear, that list is far from complete.

There are loads of steam games without DRM and those that use DRM mostly use the Steam provided one that sucks if one actually wants to crack it. It basically only protects against casual copy attempts.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Still gives a good idea of the proportions though and I'm willing to bet that most of the Steam games missing are shovelwares that no one ever installed.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2014/04/17/nearly-37-of-all-registered-steam-games-have-never-been-played/?sh=699792182146

[-] leave_it_blank@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

That's extremely interesting, thank you!!

Nowadays the only platform I buy my games from is gog, I made the right choice it seems.

But people who need to play the newest games don't really have a choice.

[-] Astaroth@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

no one needs to play any game

it's just a matter of how willing someone is to compromise on their principles for entertainment

[-] leave_it_blank@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

When I was a teenager I played the newest games too, so I won't judge. Privilege of the young. Today my time is scarce, so I have the luxury of carefully choosing my titles, and I choose DRM free. But back then I would have "needed" to play the newest Assassin's Creed.