Help Me! Would this Cause an accidental VAC?

[staticvoid]

So basically I found this program that messes with my video card to turn graphics in my games down even farther than before. I just want to know if ATI Tray Tools would cause an accidental VAC ban, or if it doesn't mess with core game files at all.

What does it do?
Here's a good example of the settings after the tray tool:

 

[KillerZebra]

Any 3rd party program that integrates into TF2 has a risk of being detected by VAC.

 

[hXcjedders]

The only thing VAC does is check the .exe and .dlls I believe so as long as nothing modifies those, you should be good.

 

[Cowboy Crow]

Void you should just be banned anyway. Just for being Void. Gabe newl has a dart board with your face on it. As we do all. We get it for free for every hat we own in our back packs.

To be real now, this would not do anything bad, I have seen alot of youtubers use it so they can just have better frames while recording.

 

[staticvoid]

I'M GOING WITH THIS GUY

227 posts and lots of rep.... Hope to god he's right.

 

[KillerZebra]

He is probably right since your program doesn't try to modify TF2 at all. It doesn't even touch TF2

 

[Questionable Moose]

I'M GOING WITH THIS GUY

227 posts and lots of rep.... Hope to god he's right.

Unless he's a spokesperson for Valve or Steam, don't trust him.

(If you get bannedagain can I have your account? I guess it got a few good games on it!)

 

[staticvoid]

He is probably right since your program doesn't try to modify TF2 at all. It doesn't even touch TF2

Alright, thanks

I've been reading more about it, and there was only one thread related to being VAC'd while using it, and even at that, it looked fake:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2071318

 

[Cowboy Crow]

I would not take any chances if you don't feel safe with it. If something about you is telling you its not safe, chances are it's not. (This does not 100% mean I'm right. Just saying if you don't feel safe then don't take the risk.)

 

[Sarcasm]

If it doesn't directly modify any of the TF2 core files, then you won't get vac'd (With like, a 99% chance).

 

[tux9656]

I've used it before with Counter Strike: Source. I never got VAC banned. This is a standard DirectX/ATI/AMD driver feature. All it does is tell your display driver to either increase (with lower LOD bias value) displayed texture resolution or decrease (with higher LOD bias value) texture resolution. The value typically goes from -10 to +10 with zero displaying the texture at it's normal, stored on disk, resolution. Negative values attempt to sharpen the texture by displaying it at a higher resolution than is available or stored on disk. This can have a side effect of shimmering textures. Using positive values has the advantage of needing less video memory to display textures and my help improve performance if you have little video memory or slow video memory.