So, apparently Idle Master now has the ability to idle multiple games at once, which sounds handy since games require so long before they even start dropping cards now. However, won't this cause issues with VAC games if they try idling a VAC enabled game? I don't know much about how VAC works, or idle master really for that matter, so I figured I would post on here. You guys are like the Computer geniuses and the steam Gurus...so, why not go to the experts?

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Idle master just makes steam think you are playing that game to get the cards without connect to any server of any game.So I'm pretty sure you won't get VAC banned.I've been using Idle master for over an year and I never had any problem.

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You will not get vac banned just for running.

I can not say without a doubt but i am pretty sure even if you ran a vac game and connected to a server it would not trigger it,as VAC detects memory changes within the .exe file that is used to run the game.This program does neither.Though i will not try it to find out so best just to not play any VAC games while using this.Just running it though is safe as you have to be connected to a VAC server before VAC will trigger.

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Well,i did this by mistake a couple of times in the past and still haven't been banned.Not like I should be xD.

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Well i was pretty sure nothing would happen i just thought since i never did try it myself i would not say go ahead and do it in case something went wrong lol.

I know i started sam once with TF2 but i did not join a server,i was using that to idle before i knew about idle master,though i am not sure how that works so that may or may not be dangerous to run while playing.I just quit the game and closed out sam but lucky i caught it before i loaded a game as i am not sure if they would ban you since i do not know how that really works.

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Idle Master doesn't actually run any game. It just start a process with the required ID to fool Steam into thinking that the game is running.

VAC is triggered when you're connecting to a VAC-enabled server. As usual, don't run any VAC-enabled game while you have other software that could interfere with Steam in any way.

Also, it only idles multiple games for the initial 2-hours period before the drops. Having multiple games running at the same time (past that initial 2 hours) actually slows the drop rate of cards.

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There haven't been any reports of someone getting in trouble for using Idle Master with a VAC game, since it doesn't actually connect to the VAC server.

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ok, that actually makes sense...Thanks! Yea, i don't run it when playing anyway. Does it send multiple notices to my friends list when it's idling multiple games? I don't want to be spamming people...i feel bad enough when i'm just doing 1 at a time...if it does spam the friends list with notices..is there a way to disable "What game i'm playing" from being broadcast?

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Sweet! Thanks bunches!

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That would be a thing your friends would have to turn off, that setting just disables the popups on your screen.

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I thought something was up and i was asking in TG chat about it and why it was acting funny,then it dawned on me a bit later,i had not updated it in awhile but when i updated to Windows 10 i just downloaded it again and ran it,i thought it was some bug lol.As even when i pressed skip a game to get the one i wanted to idle first,it would show one game in idle master but another game i was playing on steam lol.As i said though when it dawned on me it might be doing that now to help with the 2 hour delay and i felt like a idiot and a face palm was needed lol.

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