Ironshield HWID Bans and Dark and Darker Boot Checks

Ironshield is IRONMACE's anti-cheat for Dark and Darker. This is a single-game hub: the public game policy says Ironshield must run to play and that it monitors hardware and processes while analyzing game binaries.

That first-party wording supports a hardware-aware enforcement story without inventing a secret serial list. Dark and Darker can combine Ironshield's device information with account and boot-integrity requirements, but there is no separate roster where one Ironshield ban spreads to unrelated publishers.

TraceX Spoofer rewrites the supported Windows machine identifiers while leaving the game's required security configuration alone. Complete the one-time setup, run TraceX once, and delete it.

IRONMACE confirms hardware and process monitoring but does not enumerate each field. On Windows, board and memory data can be exposed through `Win32_BaseBoard`, `Win32_PhysicalMemory`, and the SMBIOS Type 2 baseboard serial. Physical-disk descriptors are available through `Win32_DiskDrive` and `IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY`.

The OS layer includes `MachineGuid` at `HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography`, volume and installation identifiers, and MAC enumeration. Those values help distinguish a changed account from a changed machine. A Dark and Darker reinstall does not normally alter any of them.

The TPM 2.0 endorsement key and Secure Boot are security-state surfaces, with TPM operations available through TBS and HVCI describing virtualization-based code-integrity protection. Ironshield's public policy does not state that it stores the key, so the careful claim is that boot and TPM state can complement the hardware profile.

Composite or fuzzy matching can join board, disk, Windows, network, and security-state inputs while tolerating a normal component replacement. Because Ironshield is tied to Dark and Darker, the exposure is repeat accounts or sessions on the same device, not a claim of automatic cross-game propagation.

TraceX rewrites supported SMBIOS, disk, memory, Windows, and network identifiers consistently. It changes the machine values Ironshield can observe without modifying Dark and Darker, its binaries, or the anti-cheat process.

Run TraceX once after the one-time setup and delete it. The supported rewrite persists without a resident mask. Keep Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, and HVCI configured as required by the current game build.

Ironshield ships with Dark and Darker updates. Confirm the timestamped Working status after an IRONMACE release instead of relying on an older page or treating a game launch as a permanent compatibility test.