Re: Legality and banning concerns

You can't get banned for modifying videoconfig. Respawn can disable any setting whenever they want on config files. The link on your player was probably just a cheater and trying to get away with it.

Even imperialhal is doing it:

TSM ImperialHal on X: "Little PC Apex tip for FPS/Clarity: Type Saved Games in windows Search Bar -> Respawn -> Apex -> local -> videoconfig then find "setting.csm_enabled" "1" and change it to "setting.csm_enabled" "0" , this basically reduces/gets rid of shadows completely also a side note 1/2" / X (twitter.com)

It is possible to get banned for razer synapse or other software. They can also do anti recoil macros. I don't know if game have detection against it but if you get caught on some live stream you will get banned. Also too many inputs that is not possible by configs or by hand might get you banned. Because unlike ingame configs respawn has no control over them.