What Valve Anti-Cheat inspects, how CS Radar runs outside the game, and the ban risk that no external tool can remove. Read this before you buy.
No customer has reported a VAC ban from using CS Radar. That is our own support record, and it is the strongest thing we can honestly tell you, because what CS Radar cannot do is promise that you will not be banned, and no external tool honestly can. What follows is what the architecture does, what Valve says, our record, and what risk is left over. Decide with that in front of you.
VAC is Valve Anti-Cheat. In Valve's own words, it is an automated system designed to detect cheats installed on users' computers
, and it reliably detects cheats using their cheat signatures
. Valve adds that this includes modifications to a game's core executable files and dynamic link libraries
. The full text is on the Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) System support page.
Two things follow from that description. Signature detection needs something to match against, and the things Valve names are files and libraries belonging to the game. That is why detection has historically focused on code that ends up inside the game process.
A conventional CS2 cheat loads its own code into the running game, usually by injecting a library, and then draws to the screen or alters what the game does. To do that it has to place code inside a process an anti-cheat is watching, and that code is a thing that can be fingerprinted.
CS Radar is not built that way. It is a separate Windows program that reads game state and does not write to game memory, does not inject a library into CS2, and draws nothing on top of the game. It runs a small web server on your own machine and sends the radar to a browser, which is why you can put it on a second monitor or a phone. Nothing about CS Radar is rendered by CS2.
That is a genuine architectural difference and it is the reason external tools are a different detection problem from injected ones. It is not the same thing as a guarantee, and the next section is why.
This is the part most pages in this category leave out.
any third-party modifications to a game designed to give one player an advantage over another is classified as a cheat or hack and will trigger a VAC ban. Read plainly, that sentence is about what a tool is for, not how it is built. A radar is for advantage. Nobody should tell you otherwise.
use only trusted machines to play on VAC-Secured servers, and that if you are unsure whether the machine may have cheats installed,
do not play on VAC-Secured servers.
are not VAC banned based on reports alone, which also means reports are one of the things taken into account.
We claim what we can describe: CS Radar runs outside CS2, does not write to game memory, does not inject into the game, renders nothing in your game view, and has not produced a single ban report from a customer to date. Those are facts about the software and about our own records, and you can hold us to them.
We do not claim that Valve permits it, that you are safe, or that any account is beyond reach. We have not run a detection study, so our record is a support record and not a measurement of what VAC can see.
We are not responsible for any game bans, account suspensions, or damages resulting from the use of our software. You use the software at your own risk.
That line is in the Terms of Service you agree to at purchase, and it is here rather than only there because you should read it before you pay, not after. Do not use CS Radar on an account you are not prepared to lose. A ban is also not a refundable fault under our refund policy, and that is deliberate: it is the one outcome we cannot control.
CS Radar runs as a separate process and does not put code inside CS2, which is what signature scanning of the game's files and libraries is aimed at. Valve does not publish what else it inspects, so "cannot see it" is a stronger statement than anyone outside Valve is in a position to make.
No. Valve's support page classifies any third-party modification intended to give one player an advantage as a cheat. Whatever the technical distinctions, that is Valve's stated position and you should assume it applies.
No customer has reported a VAC ban from using CS Radar. That is our full support record to date, across every order we have taken, and it is the most direct evidence either of us has. It is evidence rather than a guarantee: bans are issued by Valve and are not disclosed to us, and a banned player does not always come back to tell us. We would rather show you the record we have than make a promise we are not in a position to keep.
CS Radar does not write to game memory, does not inject code into the game, and does not alter any game file. It reads state and serves a radar to your browser.
No. A Valve action against your account is not a fault in our software, and the refund policy excludes it. This is stated before purchase rather than discovered after one.
If something here is unclear, ask before you buy: [email protected], or the routes on the contact page. The setup guide covers what running CS Radar actually involves.