HWID ban: how to recover (account, hardware, or IP)

A ban hits your account, your hardware, or your IP — and each one needs a different fix. People buy a spoofer when they actually need a new account, and vice versa. Diagnose before you spend money.

The three layers

Account ban. A row in the game's database flagged. Tied to your username, email, sometimes phone. Fix: new account.

Hardware ban (HWID). The anti-cheat's fingerprint of your PC is on a blocklist. Tied to motherboard, disks, NICs, monitor, TPM, sometimes more. Fix: spoof the IDs with our free spoofer, or physically replace the parts.

IP ban. Your IP is blocked. Tied to whatever your router shows the outside world. Fix: change IP — new router lease, mobile hotspot, or VPN.

Every major anti-cheat now bans by hardware ID: Vanguard, EAC, BattlEye and Ricochet all maintain HWID blocklists, and the lists got longer in late 2025 — EAC and Ricochet started reading your TPM chip and RAM serial numbers on top of the older stuff. IP bans are the least common because CGNAT makes them painful for ISPs to enforce.

How to figure out which layer is hitting

Quick diagnostic, no special tools:

• Fresh account on the same PC. Boot it up, try to launch. Banned at startup → HWID is in play. Works → account-only.
• Original account on a friend's PC. Banned there too → the account itself is gone. Works fine → your PC is the problem.
• Both above are clean but you still can't connect → check your public IP. If a fresh account on a fresh PC over your home connection fails but works on mobile hotspot, you have an IP ban.

Most real cases are layered. Valorant and Fortnite usually ban account + HWID together. Recovery means addressing both.

The recovery path

1. Confirm the diagnostic above. A spoofer doesn't help if the account is what's banned.
2. Run the free spoofer before launching. Temporary — reverts on reboot. Worst case is one restart.
3. Check /status for your product. If you're using one of our cheats alongside the spoofer, the badge tells you whether it's safe to inject right now.
4. Fresh account if the original was banned. New email, new username. Some games need phone verification — cheap prepaid SIMs work.
5. VPN if the game IP-bans. Most competitive shooters don't. Some Squad servers and FiveM communities do.
6. Cleaner step if needed. /spoofer lists which games require it — Rust, Fortnite, DBD, Hell Let Loose, Hunt Showdown, New World, SCUM, FiveM server-side.

For Valorant specifically, the public spoofer is out of scope. The Valorant product ships its own HWID flow.

Things that don't work

• Reinstalling Windows alone. Doesn't change hardware.
• Changing your username. Account is keyed by ID.
• A new graphics card. Modern fingerprints read motherboard and disks too.
• VPN as a fix for HWID. Different layer.

Before any of this, read /risk-disclosure once. It covers what the spoofer does and doesn't do, honestly.