AMD’s Anti-Lag+ is coming back after an ignoble exit in 2023

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We’ve not seen hide nor hair of Anti-Lag+ since October of last year, which is a bummer, because it’s some pretty cool tech. But its solution injects some proprietary files into games on your system instead of being baked in from the developer, like Nvidia Reflex. This allowed Radeon Anti-Lag+ to theoretically work with any online game…but was also detected as user tampering by Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC), notably in the insanely popular Counter-Strike 2. Temporary player bans resulted, followed by AMD stripping the feature out of its Adrenalin driver package.

Azor declined to say exactly how “soon” we can expect to see Anti-Lag+ again. The less complex Anti-Lag (sans +) is still available, but it’s less effective and doesn’t quite compete with Nvidia Reflex. We’re in a bit of a lull for graphics card development at the moment with neither company expected to release next-gen GPUs until 2025, so any advantage either side can tout will be a small but crucial marketing win.

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