AMD’s new latency-busting tech was also condemning Radeon gamers to anti-cheat jail, as it turns out.
It’s common for gamers to talk about input lag as stems from input devices and display devices, but the majority of the motion-to-photon lag for most PC gamers actually comes from the software stack itself. NVIDIA has its Reflex technology to counteract this latency, and AMD has its Anti-Lag, but Radeon Anti-Lag isn’t quite as effective as Reflex owing to its driver-based nature (where Reflex requires game engine integration).To level the playing field and even give Radeon gamers an advantage, AMD developed Anti-Lag+, a version of Anti-Lag that offers competitive results against NVIDIA’s Reflex technology. Best of all, it’s still driver-based, which means it doesn’t require game engine integration—although it does require a game-specific profile in the driver.
