Players in on-line shooters like Counter-Strike 2 and Apex Legends got a nasty shock last weekend, discovering their recreation accounts banned for hacking that they hadn’t really carried out. The precise perpetrator was discovered to be AMD’s new Radeon Anti-Lag+ function, an built-in a part of its Adrenalin driver and software program bundle. The device was getting wrongly flagged by Valve’s Anti-Cheat system (VAC) amongst others. After an preliminary outcry, AMD has launched a patch disabling Anti-Lag for now.

“We have released the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.10.2 driver that disables Anti-Lag+ technology in all supported games,” AMD says on Twitter Twexter X, “and we recommend gamers use the new driver.” Valve’s assist pinned the difficulty on Anti-Lag+ routing across the recreation’s DLL information, which can also be a standard technique for dishonest in on-line multiplayer. Valve says that it’s going to determine wrongly-banned accounts and restore them as soon as AMD ships the replace, which hopefully implies that some gamers are getting their entry again now.

In the meantime, AMD says that it’s “actively working with game developers on a solution,” and in addition that it’s serving to to reinstate customers who have been wrongfully banned. But there’s nonetheless no indication of when an up to date and hopefully corrected model of the (very cool) Anti-Lag+ software will turn into obtainable. It’s a disappointing flip of occasions, as Anti-Lag+ is designed to scale back latency added by AMD’s new DLSS 3-like “Fluid Motion Frames” function, a key a part of FSR 3.

AMD is having a bunch of driver points currently, with a recent Windows update wiping out user settings for a lot of.