Steam’s anti-cheat systems

[Gao Yellow]

I have a question about anti cheats, would they be able to work with each others at the same time?
I currently have games with vanguard, battle eye, faceit ac and vac. I don’t cheat on any of these games but I have paranoid so Im kinda worrying because every time I play different game from Csgo to valorant, or when I play face it and wanna play csgo official servers I gotta reset to make sure I have the anticheat from previous game off before I play a different game, 🥺 can those anti cheats work with each other without trigger and fault bans? Im kinda paranoid and wanna keep little peace for my mind

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Gao Vang:

I have a question about anti cheats, would they be able to work with each others at the same time?
I currently have games with vanguard, battle eye, faceit ac and vac. I don’t cheat on any of these games but I have paranoid so Im kinda worrying because every time I play different game from Csgo to valorant, or when I play face it and wanna play csgo official servers I gotta reset to make sure I have the anticheat from previous game off before I play a different game, 🥺 can those anti cheats work with each other without trigger and fault bans? Im kinda paranoid and wanna keep little peace for my mind

The different anti-cheats do not conflict with one another.

[Ben Lubar]

As a generalization, if there's something a lot of non-cheating players do, you should feel safe doing that thing because if a large number of non-cheating players get banned by an anticheat, that's the kind of thing developers are looking for and will revert very quickly.

[ReBoot]

Whatever can actually, for real go wrong, just close one game before opening the next and you'll be fine.

[Gao Yellow]

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

As a generalization, if there's something a lot of non-cheating players do, you should feel safe doing that thing because if a large number of non-cheating players get banned by an anticheat, that's the kind of thing developers are looking for and will revert very quickly.

So as long as I don’t cheat and I know I don’t cheat on any of the games, I would be fine? I don’t use any unknown softwares I should be fine?

[Komarimaru]

Originally posted by 76561198083019420:

Originally posted by Gao Vang:

So as long as I don’t cheat and I know I don’t cheat on any of the games, I would be fine? I don’t use any unknown softwares I should be fine?

no, there are false bans all the time anyone who says otherwise has a dogmatic belief and is not interested in a balanced opinion

False bans are removed automatically. Rarely do they happen.

[Komarimaru]

Originally posted by 76561198083019420:

Originally posted by Komarimaru:

False bans are removed automatically. Rarely do they happen.

this is mixed up, false bans are rarely removed and they are not removed automatically

And wrong, but that's your choice.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/571A-97DA-70E9-FF74

VAC bans are permanent, non-negotiable, and cannot be removed by Steam Support. If a VAC ban is determined to have been issued incorrectly, it will automatically be removed.

[Komarimaru]

Originally posted by 76561198083019420:

Originally posted by Komarimaru:

And wrong, but that's your choice.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/571A-97DA-70E9-FF74

this is outdated information and not meant to be taken literally

Yet, it's not outdated, and you're wrong yet again.

[Sifer2]

Eh I wouldn't risk running multiple at once. Lot's of false bans before from simple stuff like RGB programs. I don't think they would flag the other anti-cheats intentionally but as I said people get banned over just random stuff running in the background sometimes that looks suspicious.

[Yujah]

Originally posted by Gao Vang:

So as long as I don’t cheat and I know I don’t cheat on any of the games, I would be fine?
I don’t use any unknown softwares I should be fine?

Your worry sounds quite plausible. I'd say it's probably a matter of time before one of those intrusive pieces of anti-cheat software when it's active triggers a suspicious-pattern heuristic in one of the others (if that hasn't yet happened; I don't do multiplayer so don't know).

Of course, "when it's active" would not generally be the case if you close down one game before starting another -- but sometimes it may be, and even if only as matter of a bug that hangs teh process on close, so do pardon me for probably triggering your self-professed paranoia, but I personally think that you're actually making fair sense.

Of course, also does Ben Lubar in #2 so you may want to concentrate on that answer, but if I were to play any of those games, I'd now probably be rebooting from one to the next. "Makes sense to me". Haha.