Not every ban described as a hardware ban works the same way, and the differences determine what you have to do about it. Full fingerprint bans hash several identifiers together — board, disks, network adapters, sometimes TPM — and block the combination. Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye both work broadly this way. Changing one component often fails because the hash still matches enough of the rest. Component bans target a specific value, most often a disk serial or a MAC address. These are the easiest to work around and are increasingly rare on their own. Account-linked bans with hardware association. The ban lives on the account, but the platform records the hardware that account used. New acco
Not every ban described as a hardware ban works the same way, and the differences determine what you have to do about it.
hash several identifiers together — board, disks, network adapters, sometimes TPM — and block the combination. Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye both work broadly this way. Changing one component often fails because the hash still matches enough of the rest.
target a specific value, most often a disk serial or a MAC address. These are the easiest to work around and are increasingly rare on their own.
Account-linked bans with hardware association.
The ban lives on the account, but the platform records the hardware that account used. New accounts from the same machine are then flagged early rather than blocked instantly. Ubisoft and Riot both use approaches along these lines.
Vanguard runs from system start and can require Secure Boot and TPM 2.0. That moves the check earlier than a spoofer that runs after Windows has booted, and makes those titles materially harder. Our BattlEye and Vanguard comparison explains the timing difference.
BattlEye and Vanguard comparison
Not hardware at all, but often mistaken for it. If a new account is banned instantly on a clean machine, the link is usually an email address, a payment method or an IP range — not a serial number.
Sequence matters more than tooling. Most failed bypasses are failures of order. One: stop using the banned account entirely. Logging in from a spoofed machine re-associates the new fingerprint with a known-bad account, which is the exact opposite of what you want. Two: clean the traces on disk. Anti-cheat and game installations leave configuration and identifier files behind that a fresh install will happily reuse. Uninstall the game and the anti-cheat service, then remove leftover directories in ProgramData and AppData. Three: run the spoofer before anything else touches the network. Boot, spoof, and only then install or launch. If the game runs once before the spoofer, it has already repor
Sequence matters more than tooling. Most failed bypasses are failures of order.
One: stop using the banned account entirely.
Logging in from a spoofed machine re-associates the new fingerprint with a known-bad account, which is the exact opposite of what you want.
Two: clean the traces on disk.
Anti-cheat and game installations leave configuration and identifier files behind that a fresh install will happily reuse. Uninstall the game and the anti-cheat service, then remove leftover directories in ProgramData and AppData.
Three: run the spoofer before anything else touches the network.
Boot, spoof, and only then install or launch. If the game runs once before the spoofer, it has already reported your real values for that session.
Four: use a genuinely new account.
New email, new credentials, and ideally a different payment method. A spoofed machine with the old payment card is linkable in a way no driver can help with.
Check that the identifiers actually changed rather than assuming. The setup guide covers how to confirm this in a couple of minutes.
Spoof after every reboot, before every session. One forgotten launch undoes the whole exercise. What you do
need in most cases is a Windows reinstall. It changes MachineGuid and clears leftovers, but it does not touch board serials, disk serials or MAC addresses — which is where the fingerprint mostly lives.
When someone says a spoofer did not work, it is usually one of a short list of reasons, and almost none of them are the spoofer. They ran it after launching the game. The anti-cheat reads identifiers at startup. Spoofing afterwards changes nothing for that session. They forgot after a reboot. Session-based by design, gone on restart. This is the most common failure by a wide margin. They reused the account, email or card. The hardware was new; the identity was not. They left the old install in place. Configuration files carried a previous identifier straight into the new session. They used a user-mode tool against a kernel anti-cheat. Free spoofers are frequently user-mode, and against EAC o
When someone says a spoofer did not work, it is usually one of a short list of reasons, and almost none of them are the spoofer.
They ran it after launching the game.
The anti-cheat reads identifiers at startup. Spoofing afterwards changes nothing for that session.
Session-based by design, gone on restart. This is the most common failure by a wide margin.
They reused the account, email or card.
The hardware was new; the identity was not.
They left the old install in place.
Configuration files carried a previous identifier straight into the new session.
They used a user-mode tool against a kernel anti-cheat.
Free spoofers are frequently user-mode, and against EAC or BattlEye that is close to useless. Some are also bundled with things you did not intend to install.
They played on the same network expecting the network not to matter.
IP and account correlation is real, and no hardware tool addresses it.
The title uses TPM attestation.
Some values genuinely cannot be spoofed, and a provider claiming universal coverage is overstating. The pattern is that bypasses fail on process, not on technology. Get the order right, keep the routine, and separate the identity as well as the hardware. The VOIDEX spoofer automates the hardware half; the rest is discipline.