MTA:SA fix
An AC, VF or SD kick appeared
Read the letters and the number together, then use only the steps that fit. The kick does not prove you did anything on purpose.
Steps
Read the letters and the number together
Read AC, VF or SD and its number as one code. The public table of these codes is not complete. A Server AC Info line that lists which detections are turned on only shows the server’s settings. It is not proof that you were kicked.
Source: MTA wiki
Restart the PC for SD16
Only if the code in the kick is SD16.
Save your work and restart the PC before you try again. SD16 means an anti-cheat component failed to start, and a restart may help. It does not tell you why the component failed.
Source: MTA wiki
Close NetLimiter
Only if the kick is the NetLimiter/SD33 restriction and NetLimiter is installed.
Close the NetLimiter program and restart MTA. If its background service starts again, follow the official guide to stop only the NetLimiter service before you reconnect.
Source: MTA help
Close Fraps or Bandicam
Only if the kick is the recorder/SD35 restriction, which is about recorders that can lock FPS.
Close Fraps or Bandicam if you use one of them, then restart MTA. The restriction does not forbid all screen recording.
Source: MTA help
Restart the PC for a Cheat Engine notice
Only if the notice names Cheat Engine and Cheat Engine is installed.
Restart the PC. If the same notice is still there, the official guide recommends uninstalling Cheat Engine and restarting again.
Careful: Removing a program does not remove a ban you already have.
Source: MTA help
No step fits: ask support
If none of these cases fits, take the full message to MTA support or to the server that kicked you. Do not remove programs that have nothing to do with it, and do not guess what a number means when its meaning is not published.
A restriction that a server turns on is not the same as an MTA global ban. You cannot change a server’s anti-cheat rules from your own MTA settings.
This guide has no list of AC, VF and SD codes. Look up your exact code under error codes to see what it means.
Still not fixed? Copy the whole message, not only the code, and check your log in the Fix tool. It is read on your own computer.
Other problems like this
All fix guides · Every MTA:SA error code · Crash codes and offsets
Where this comes from
Official MTA guidance
- wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Anti-cheat_guide
- help.multitheftauto.com/sa/trouble/netlimiter-kick/
- help.multitheftauto.com/sa/trouble/screen-recorder-kick/
- help.multitheftauto.com/sa/trouble/cheatengine/
- forum.multitheftauto.com/forum/83-client/
Read on 7 September 2026 and written in our own words here.