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...

"hacks" executed by the client. Valve has implemented an anti-cheat system called Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC). Players cheating on a VAC-enabled server risk having...

2014). "Gabe takes to Reddit to clear up Valve Anti-Cheat rumours; "Do we send your browsing history to Valve? No."". PCGamesN. Retrieved 6 July 2015....

Steam offers various features, like game server matchmaking with Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) measures, social networking, and game streaming services. The...

finalize the bracket. Valve has banned players from attending the Majors for violations of competitive integrity. A Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) ban is the most...

as PunkBuster, nProtect GameGuard, or Valve Anti-Cheat. However, much like anti-virus companies, some anti-cheat tools are constantly and consistently...

Valve worked with Epic over the end of 2021 to make the transition of Easy Anti-Cheat to Proton simple for developers. Another popular anti-cheat solution...

Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, is an American video game developer, publisher, and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue...

discovered. A Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) ban is the most common way in which players are banned. VAC is a system designed by Valve to detect cheats on computers...

Hungary Vívó és Atlétikai Club, a defunct Hungarian sports club Valve Anti-Cheat, an anti-cheat tool for video games Vergence-accommodation conflict, a visual...

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anti-cheat software designed to detect players that hack or abusively use exploits in an online game. It was initially released as a third-party anti-cheat...

waters of a flooded Earth. Brink has Steamworks integration, including Valve Anti-Cheat. It runs on id Tech 4 and has an updated rendering framework with improved...

2014 as a player for Team LDLC, Hovik "KQLY" Tovmassian received a Valve Anti-Cheat ban for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, permanently restricting his...

experience with cheaters on Team Fortress Classic. The first beta of PunkBuster was announced on September 21, 2000, for Half-Life. Valve was at the time...

exclusive platform for Black Ops on PC, and the game is protected by Valve Anti-Cheat. The Wii version of the game includes in-game voice chat. This is the...

is doing so. Valve took down the servers for five minutes in August 2022, during which a number of bans were issued via Valve Anti-Cheat to players that...

Single-player, multi-player, achievements, leaderboards, Steam Cloud, stats, Valve Anti-Cheat, full controller support (with the Xbox 360 controller) and Steam Trading...

platform. The game servers run Valve Anti-Cheat to prevent cheating. One form of matchmaking in Global Offensive to prevent cheating is Prime Matchmaking which...

in-game harassment at some point. The game has been criticized for its anti-cheat software, Riot Vanguard, as it was revealed to run on a kernel driver...

2012-04-13. Retrieved 2017-09-02. Smith, Quintin (26 July 2010). "Valve Anti-Cheat software goes a bit GlaDOS?". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Archived from the...

VAC An abbreviation of Valve Anti-Cheat, Valve Corporation's cheat detection software. Players who are caught using cheats on a VAC-secured server will...

that measures were being taken to reduce cheating in the game, with the introduction of the Valve Anti-Cheat system (VAC) in the next patch. In addition...

incorporated special tools such as nProtect GameGuard, Valve Anti-Cheat, and PunkBuster to counter cheating exploits within the game. Riot Games followed suit...

commonly employ built-in anti-cheat software to detect and prevent the use of these illicit practices. However, some sophisticated cheats may still evade detection...

developed by Valve. It incorporates Valve's popular namesake Steam video game storefront and is the primary operating system for the Steam Deck, Valve's portable...

Allegations of cheating were made throughout the 1994 Formula One World Championship. Several Formula One teams were involved, with the main allegations...

announced the acquisition of Kamu, a firm that offered anti-cheat software called Easy Anti-Cheat, in October 2018. A year later, in January 2019, Epic...

liked about Valve's classic was a secret train". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2022-03-22. Hogdson, David (2004). Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar. Valve Corp. Roseville...

ban by Valve if a player is caught cheating with Valve's anti-cheat system and any player with a VAC ban would be ineligible to play at a Valve-sponsored...