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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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[โ€“] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A VAC ban is only for online games that use VAC, and even then I think they can still use community servers.

It doesn't lock you out of your account or anything.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Unless they are VAC secured

Even if it's an entirely different game by a duuferent publisher, you might get premtively banned from playing because the ban is visible on your account.