Xigncode3 HWID Bans — How They Work & How to Bypass

Xigncode3 is an anti-cheat system developed by Wellbia, a South Korean security company. It has been protecting online games since the late 2000s, with a primary focus on the Korean and Southeast Asian MMO market. In the West, it is best known for protecting Black Desert Online, one of the most popular action MMOs available.

Wellbia designed Xigncode3 as a comprehensive system security solution, not just an anti-cheat. It monitors for debugging tools, memory editors, virtual machine environments, and unauthorized code injection. For banned players, its hardware fingerprinting system is the critical component — Xigncode3 collects a detailed set of machine identifiers that make it difficult to return on the same hardware after a ban.

Xigncode3 has a reputation for aggressive system scanning. It inspects running processes, loaded drivers, and system files beyond what the game itself requires. While this thoroughness makes it effective at detecting cheat tools, it also means the hardware fingerprint it builds is comprehensive and difficult to partially spoof.

Xigncode3 collects hardware identifiers through a driver component that monitors the system during gameplay. Its fingerprinting approach reflects its Korean MMO origins, where persistent accounts and virtual economies make hardware bans particularly important. The identifiers Xigncode3 enumerates include:

Disk drive serial numbers — firmware-level serials from all connected storage devices. Xigncode3 reads these through direct controller queries, not through Windows volume management APIs.

Motherboard serial and BIOS data — board serial, system UUID, and BIOS version from SMBIOS tables. These are primary anchors in the fingerprint.

Network adapter MAC addresses — all physical adapters are logged. Xigncode3 also records adapter model names to check for inconsistencies with spoofed addresses.

USB device identifiers — Xigncode3 logs connected USB devices, including their vendor ID, product ID, and serial number. While not a primary ban signal, this data provides additional fingerprint entropy.

Windows registry identifiers — MachineGUID, installation date, product key hash, and timezone settings are collected as supplementary signals.

Xigncode3's enforcement is permanent for hardware bans. The system stores fingerprints server-side and checks them at every game launch. Its matching algorithm uses weighted composites, with hardware serials carrying the most weight. Xigncode3 also checks for known spoofing tools — if it detects certain driver signatures or hooked system calls associated with popular spoofers, it reports this as a separate violation.

TraceX rewrites all identifiers Xigncode3 collects while avoiding the detection signatures Xigncode3 watches for. When you run TraceX once:

All hardware serials — disk drives, motherboard, network adapters — are replaced with clean values at a level beneath Xigncode3's driver. The spoofed values are format-correct and manufacturer-consistent.

USB device identifiers are handled, ensuring connected peripherals do not leak persistent identifiers into the fingerprint.

Windows registry data is rotated to match a fresh installation, breaking any correlation with a previously flagged system.

Critically, TraceX does not use the hooking methods or driver signatures that Xigncode3 scans for. Its spoofing operates beneath Xigncode3's observation layer, so there are no detectable artifacts — no hooked system calls, no flagged drivers, no memory modifications for Xigncode3 to report.