By that logic buying a better pc is cheating because it gives you an advantage. We need some nuance here. All modifications to game files are not cheating, (even if not allowed in any case), because well, not all modifications are cheats. This is a great example actually, because AMD sanctioned, graphics card driver latency reduction isn’t a cheat. Obviously the way it was implemented was clearly very problematic and should’ve never been greenlit.
However, this isn’t an unintentional cheat and detecting it as such is incorrect. It is, however, a modification and those are reasonably disallowed, it is totally fair to disallow that.
Xatolos@reddthat.com 8 months ago
It wasn’t just Valve banning people.
windowscentral.com/…/amds-anti-lag-feature-is-wre…
People weren’t changing their DLLs, they were activating a feature on a well known and respected hardware company. (I do argee with you though that AMD is hugely at fault here though, they should have worked with online game companies about this as these cards are sold more for gaming than anything else.)
DV8@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sure, my comment is directly aimed at a comment stating Valve would basically brick your steam account for this, though. It’s disinformation I’ve seen at too many places this week or oddly enough. While Valve as the CS2 publisher preemptively told players they would unban people once their dlls were normal again.