It’s widespread for players to speak about enter lag as stems from enter gadgets and show gadgets, however the majority of the motion-to-photon lag for many PC players truly comes from the software program stack itself. NVIDIA has its Reflex know-how to counteract this latency, and AMD has its Anti-Lag, however Radeon Anti-Lag is not fairly as efficient as Reflex owing to its driver-based nature (the place Reflex requires sport engine integration).
AMD says Anti-Lag+ can present vital latency reductions.
The Anti-Lag+ characteristic works by detouring sport engine DLL capabilities to capabilities offered by the graphics driver as an alternative. This, unsurprisingly, tends to tweak off video games’ anti-cheat software program. We reported about this on Friday, when Valve acknowledged the difficulty and despatched out a tweet warning AMD GPU customers to keep away from the Anti-Lag+ characteristic whereas enjoying Counter-Strike 2, however because it seems, the issue is not restricted to simply CS2.
Players have additionally reported issues in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 beta, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Valorant, Apex Legends, Fortnite, and different titles. Essentially any sport with invasive anti-cheat might be going to take subject with the way in which Anti-Lag+ works.
After a flood of studies from players unfairly banned for merely utilizing a characteristic offered by their graphics card, AMD has elected to launch a brand new driver, model 23.10.2, that explicitly disables Anti-Lag+ altogether. This is a bummer, as there are some offline video games the place the know-how may very well be put to make use of, together with Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Ghostwire Tokyo, Resident Evil 4, Forspoken, and others.
For its half, AMD says that it’s “actively working with sport builders on an answer to re-enable Anti-Lag+”, and in addition that it’s serving to to “reinstate players who had been impacted by the anti-cheat bans.” The firm recommends everybody with appropriate {hardware}—that is all Radeon RX 5000 and newer GPUs—to maneuver on as much as the 23.10.2 driver simply in case. This driver additionally has vital bug fixes and efficiency enhancements for Counter-Strike 2, Starfield, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Lords of the Fallen, and Forza Motorsport, too.
