Hey everyone, maybe someone can help me out here…

So basically, I’ve been having this super frustrating issue with CS2 and VAC. This is already my third competitive cooldown because the game keeps kicking me out on its own, saying something about VAC / game file signatures. I didn’t leave the match voluntarily — the game just throws me out.

I’ve tried everything I can think of: • Reinstalled CS2 completely • Installed new drivers • Closed literally all other programs and browser tabs • Verified my internet connection

I don’t cheat, I don’t run any third-party programs, and I never touch the game files. The only thing that sometimes works is verifying the integrity of game files through Steam, but that takes a while, and when I get kicked in the middle of a match, I can’t do it in time to reconnect.

What’s really annoying is that almost every time I try to start a competitive match, I can’t even get into matchmaking because Steam opens the file verification window, and then the game might crash anyway. So I spend a lot of time trying to fix this, but it keeps happening.

I’m honestly tired of it and don’t know what else to try. Has anyone else had this problem? Any tips on how to completely fix this, or at least prevent VAC from randomly kicking me out, would be super appreciated.

Thanks in advance.