an issue with your system is blocking the vac system

[ryken]

I have vanilla windows its just a computer dedicated for gaming
all it has is windows, steam and a handful of games installed

i have one account 1300 hours, been playing CS in varying formats for 2 decades never cheated once

i dont have anything to check nothing to change what am i supposed to do? i keep getting vac timeout im worried it will get my account banned but if i cant play for more than one or two games what is the point in having an account

[ryken]

i see people i have played months/years with i know dont cheat getting kicked with the same vac timeout what is this nonsense? I have fiber to the premises i have around 50 latency to the server but internet is good i dont understand

only thing i do is tab out to firefox when dead to watch videos is that it?

[kabanod1m #NotoToxicity]

VAC timeouts will never get your account banned (unless they are for cheat engine that you have injected and been using lol), when you get this VAC error a webbrowser page is automatically opened:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/22C0-03D0-AE4B-04E8

I'm doing the same thing as you do, I have another Windows installation just for gaming because my PC is really bad, and when I (rarely thankfully) get this error the only thing that helps me is to repair the Steam service. (no idea how it keeps breaking itself)
steps to do so are here:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/22C0-03D0-AE4B-04E8#repair

oh and also to check if this is still happening afterwards please play 2 deathmatches, if you haven't been kicked once while playing 2 deathmatches you're good to go

[ryken]

that doesnt happen it doesnt open anything, all i get is the message which i cant copy the text and wasnt bothered to write out the link, i found some of those instructions by internet searching

i tried a bunch of it last time, this time ive tried the service repair and a bunch of other stuff but honestly i hate all this 'run a bunch of commands you dont know what do, change a bunch of your settings and run everything as admin' to see if it goes away stuff

i use linux, i only have this computer for games because CS2 runs like trash on linux

[kabanod1m #NotoToxicity]

Originally posted by ryken:

that doesnt happen it doesnt open anything, all i get is the message which i cant copy the text and wasnt bothered to write out the link, i found some of those instructions by internet searching

i tried a bunch of it last time, this time ive tried the service repair and a bunch of other stuff but honestly i hate all this 'run a bunch of commands you dont know what do, change a bunch of your settings and run everything as admin' to see if it goes away stuff

i use linux, i only have this computer for games because CS2 runs like trash on linux

oh yeah by the way don't run neither Steam nor CS2 as an admin, that causes this vac error too

[ryken]

im not convinced any of this does anything, it seems like there is just a timeout on the server side and you only get to play again when it times out (30 minutes to an hour) why it happens i dont know

[kabanod1m #NotoToxicity]

Originally posted by ryken:

im not convinced any of this does anything, it seems like there is just a timeout on the server side and you only get to play again when it times out (30 minutes to an hour) why it happens i dont know

but all other players on the same server as you are fine and they don't get kicked by this vac timeout error…

"im not convinced any of this does anything" so are you telling me you are not going to do what I told you works for me? I'm not going to try to convince you, sorry

[no154370]

open task manager

Then go to startup tab

Disable everything except for sound and anti virus

[no154370]

i can tell that it is extremely likely to be caused by one of the startup programs running in the background

[BAZ]

Originally posted by no154370:

open task manager

Then go to startup tab

Disable everything except for sound and anti virus

Originally posted by no154370:

i can tell that it is extremely likely to be caused by one of the startup programs running in the background

To make it clear...its none of those
I got done everything for a friend means No firewall/Av/Background apps nothing works
Just steam and the game yet it still does not work

Drivers cant block your connection unlike Intel/Nvidia plays dumb games again

At this point its a network issue and can be your ISP the problem....
Either your ISP is blocking something or valve got a blacklist on you no clue

[no154370]

Originally posted by no154370:

open task manager

Then go to startup tab

Disable everything except for sound and anti virus

Originally posted by no154370:

i can tell that it is extremely likely to be caused by one of the startup programs running in the background

Vac errors are caused by

1) 3rd party programs

and

2) startup programs

There are programs that startup like steam the moment Windows starts loading

Some will show icons on Windows taskbar

Some will have their programs processes load and start and only can be seen from task manager

e.g adobe Programs processes will only be found on task manager when it loads on startup

e.g antivirus program will load on startup and will have an icon on taskbar

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Hidden processes for programs can only be seen on task manager

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Ccleaner

Full version malwarebytes

Ip proxy programs

Certain VPN programs

..........etc

are known to cause conflict with steam and steam games like cs 2

[no154370]

Originally posted by BAZ:

Originally posted by no154370:

open task manager

Then go to startup tab

Disable everything except for sound and anti virus

Originally posted by no154370:

i can tell that it is extremely likely to be caused by one of the startup programs running in the background

To make it clear...its none of those
I got done everything for a friend means No firewall/Av/Background apps nothing works
Just steam and the game yet it still does not work

Drivers cant block your connection unlike Intel/Nvidia plays dumb games again

At this point its a network issue and can be your ISP the problem....
Either your ISP is blocking something or valve got a blacklist on you no clue

internet service providers don't cause vac errors

Likewise internet service providers don't cause vac ban

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Anyone who claims that don't know anything about computers at all

[ryken]

hey yeah of course i tried all the things, i just said i wasnt convinced that they do anything not that i wouldnt try them, things happen for reasons thats all and im not convinced i have any control over those reasons because of the patterns of how it happens

i have seen other players that i know who dont cheat getting the vac timeout i have also seen random people i dont know getting timeouts, obviously the problems with cheating has made valve have to ratchet up VAC and its so sensitive now that people are copping friendly fire and getting timeouts when they shouldnt

my ping is 50 im not close to my servers in australia and the internet here is generally just trash over here so it may be as simple as our internet being sub par, or it may be drivers that windows has control over, you dont really get control over drivers like you used to in windows these days


anyway whatever i did last time seemed to work for a while i have been able to play without getting timeouts, maybe the steam repair did something, maybe its just pure chance or some other factor out of my control


and no154370 if you would read the thread you would understand i dont have programs install, literally none, all i have is steam & battle net, their games and firefox, neither of which i have on at start up

i have dual boot and this windows operating system is only for games, if there is some service affecting the game it would have to be some windows component that comes with a vanilla windows install and i doubt i would be the only person having the problem

so yeah it just happened again, i did add my launch options back in again to improve fps because i thought the steam repair had solved the issue so maybe thats it

[ryken]

I actually know a lot about computers and since vac does work with servers then yes all components of the network stack could be an issue from network drivers to routers to isp to the software components on the client and the server side.

[ryken]

I think I will start doing a weekly thing of repairing system files, then repair steam and then verify the game files.

I want to keep my launch options though because they do improve the game performance so much.

[kabanod1m #NotoToxicity]

Originally posted by ryken:

so yeah it just happened again, i did add my launch options back in again to improve fps because i thought the steam repair had solved the issue so maybe thats it

can you please send your launch options? maybe one or a few of them triggers the error

also you should 100% exclude the -high option, and don't mess with the game's process priority at all, it does make your fps go up but causes stutters and more bad things that actually impact your gameplay, I've seen an explanation as to why recently somewhere

but if you have those new Intel processors that have separate P-cores and L-cores it's okay to change process affinity to let the game only use P-cores, I remember on release the game attempted using L-cores on those CPUs and that caused worse performance on them, I believe that's fixed already though