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  2. Valve Anti-Cheat - Wikipedia

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    Valve Anti-Cheat ( VAC) is an anti-cheat tool developed by Valve as a component of the Steam platform, first released with Counter-Strike in 2002. When the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection. [ 1] It may kick players from the game if it detects ...

  3. Valve Anti-Cheat’s permanent bans no longer ... - Engadget

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    VAC bans are permanent, non-negotiable, and cannot be removed by Steam support,” the company says at the top of the support page detailing the system. To make a carve-out like this is a ...

  4. Cheating in online games - Wikipedia

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    The server will be very fast, but any wallhack program will reveal where all the players in the game are, what team they are on, and what state they are in — health, weapon, ammo etc. At the same time, altered and erroneous data from a client will allow a player to break the game rules, manipulate the server, and even manipulate other clients.

  5. Valve warns that AMD’s anti-lag feature can lead to Counter ...

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    Valve has warned Counter-Strike 2 players that AMD’s latest graphics driver could get them banned. The problem lies in AMD’s Anti-Lag+ feature, which triggers the Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) system ...

  6. Counter-Strike (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Valve has implemented an anti-cheat system called Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC). Players cheating on a VAC-enabled server risk having their account permanently banned from all VAC-secured servers. With the first version of VAC, a ban took hold almost instantly after being detected and the cheater had to wait two years to have the account unbanned.

  7. How to get yourself unbanned from Second Life - Engadget

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    When your account was banned, Linden Lab sends an email to your specified contact email address. If that address isn't working, or you're behind one of the more aggressive spam filters (like the ...

  8. Valve responds to claims it has banned AI-generated games ...

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    Valve has issued a rare statement after claims it was rejecting games with AI-generated assets from its Steam games store. The notoriously close-lipped developer of the Half-Life series and de ...

  9. Steam (service) - Wikipedia

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    Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront managed by Valve. It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide game updates automatically for Valve's games and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005. Steam offers various features, like game server matchmaking with Valve Anti-Cheat ...