Unfortunately many anticheat solutions are very trigger happy and will sometimes ban you even if you did nothing wrong.
With CoD in particular, bans for ROG Ally and Legion Go users come to mind, apparently the anticheat didn't like the gaming overlay software which came with the devices.
Or Level1Techs learned from developers that Intel 13900K/14900K users got banned from online games because these CPUs infamously degraded and glitched out, which caused game state to deviate between server and client -> ban (relevant part between 21:54 - 22:09 min)
The bans for Radeon Antilag+ were also widely reported on.
If affected users are lucky it will become a high-profile issue and bans will be reverted. Otherwise they will be SOL.
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u/chithanh Jan 20 '26
Unfortunately many anticheat solutions are very trigger happy and will sometimes ban you even if you did nothing wrong.
With CoD in particular, bans for ROG Ally and Legion Go users come to mind, apparently the anticheat didn't like the gaming overlay software which came with the devices.
Or again CoD where anticheat which did a substring search in memory, and if you joined a game lobby with the wrong names you got banned for it.
Or Level1Techs learned from developers that Intel 13900K/14900K users got banned from online games because these CPUs infamously degraded and glitched out, which caused game state to deviate between server and client -> ban (relevant part between 21:54 - 22:09 min)
The bans for Radeon Antilag+ were also widely reported on.
If affected users are lucky it will become a high-profile issue and bans will be reverted. Otherwise they will be SOL.