[vfio-users] Steam blocking VMs in csgo?

[Brandon Ganem]

It's happened twice to me now. I was able to play some more and after about
a game and half of competitive I was kicked and unable to rejoin even after
reboots, verification and repair. I'm also unable submit a ticket after it
happens (I'm suspecting this is a technique they use to reduce ticket
volume). Hard to say if it's being in a VM but at this point I may have to
reinstall as just windows and go back to dual booting if that resolves it.

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 6:26 AM, Ethan Bugden <ethan961 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just now had the opportunity to test in my VM and after about an hour
> and a half of DMing I was disconnected by VAC. I repaired the steam service
> as admin and it works as it did before. Tested for another half hour
> without issues. Valve has recently been cracking down on things like
> Sandboxie, but with only one instance running I don't think people like us
> are the targets.
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 12:37 AM, Brandon Ganem <brandonganem at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've restarted steam / windows and done the steam repair as the article
>> recommended with no change. I'll verify the integrity of the game files
>> tonight and test again but I suspect this is another tactic valve is using
>> to prevent item farmers.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 2:54 AM, Ethan Bugden <ethan961 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Did you restart steam and/or repair the steam service as per the
>>> article? I never had this happen in VM but it does occur occasionally when
>>> I play in Wine, not mid-game but when attempting to queue or connect to a
>>> server. (I get better performance using wine-nine on my R9 280X than on
>>> bare metal Windows, in the VM, and especially compared to native, so I just
>>> use Wine now.) I've had it happen once before on bare metal Windows too.
>>> Seems to be nothing to worry about, in my experience repairing the steam
>>> service usually solves it. Verifying game cache also solves the problem
>>> sometimes if it's not the steam service.
>>> TLDR; follow the article and you should be fine, doesn't seem to be VM
>>> specific in my experience.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Brandon Ganem <brandonganem at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just got disconnected from a CS match and redirected to this site:
>>>> https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2117-ILZV-2837
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else experience anything similar lately?
>>>>
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>>
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