Free permanent HWID spoofer for FragPunk. Bypass Bad Guitar's Phanuel anti-cheat (NetEase NEAC driver) by rewriting your IDs once, then delete the tool.
Free diagnostic
A FragPunk hardware ban shows up at the launcher — the in-game "Phanuel Anti-Cheat" splash screen fails to authenticate, the actual kernel driver (NEAC's `NeacSafe.sys` / `FPSNeacSafe.sys`) refuses to load Shard Cards into the round, and any new Bad Guitar account on the same PC eats the same kick before Lancer select. Bad Guitar publishes a weekly Banned Players List counting permabans + "teaming with cheaters" account-penalties, and the FPSNeacSafe driver persists in `C:\Windows\System32\drivers\` after uninstall.
Hardware Coverage
FragPunk's anti-cheat silently reads dozens of hardware identifiers from your PC while it's running — long before you reach a match. Learn how Phanuel works in FragPunk and why it's difficult to bypass without a spoofer. Below is a sample of the identifiers being tracked.
| Hardware Identifier | FragPunk Tracks | TraceX Rewrites |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Serial (CPUID) | Yes | Yes |
| Motherboard Serial | Yes | Yes |
| GPU Device LUID | Yes | Yes |
| HDD / SSD Serial | Yes | Yes |
| NIC MAC Address | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Machine GUID | Yes | Yes |
Reality Check
And when they're denied — which is almost always for HWID bans — your hardware stays permanently blacklisted. No second chances.
“Bad Guitar Studio upholds a strict no-mercy policy against cheating, with bans permanently issued the moment evidence is confirmed. All bans are backed by conclusive evidence and strictly enforced under the User Agreement.”
Bad Guitar Studio — recurring weekly Banned Players List policy boilerplate (mirrored across 8+ months of bans posts)
Why You Need This
You queued Shard Clash on Bridge with a stack — Pathojen blast pad on attacker spawn, Serket roll-out toward A vault, the Shard Card draw rolling for double-jump and grenade-on-kill — and the launcher returns a NEAC handshake fail before Lancer select even resolves. You spun up a fresh Bad Guitar account, told yourself this Hollowpoint clutch on Hometown was the run that broke ranked, and the same kick fired before the round-start music finished. The account isn't the lock — `NeacSafe.sys` (FragPunk's in-game "Phanuel" anti-cheat is NEAC under the hood) read your motherboard, drives, and NIC the moment the kernel driver loaded, and that fingerprint is what's on Bad Guitar's banlist.
FragPunk launched globally on March 6, 2025 (Steam App ID 2943650) and peaked at 113,946 concurrent users on Steam on March 9. Bad Guitar Studio (a subsidiary of Thunder Fire Studio, itself owned by NetEase Games) publishes weekly Banned Players List bulletins on @PlayFragPunk on X — the first three weeks of confirmed permabans alone ran 271 → 3,323 → 3,584 across late February and March 2025. The boilerplate policy text is verbatim repeated across every bulletin: "Bad Guitar Studio upholds a strict no-mercy policy against cheating, with bans permanently issued the moment evidence is confirmed. All bans are backed by conclusive evidence and strictly enforced under the User Agreement."
The in-game loader displays "Phanuel Anti-Cheat" — but the actual kernel driver on disk is NEAC's `NeacSafe.sys` / `FPSNeacSafe.sys` (NetEase Anti-Cheat / NeacProtect). Both names refer to the same product: "Phanuel" is the consumer-facing UI brand, NEAC is the underlying NetEase kernel-mode service. The driver loads into the System process at Ring 0, reads hardware identifiers (motherboard, drives, NIC, BIOS, ACPI), and persists in `C:\Windows\System32\drivers\` after FragPunk uninstall — a known privilege-escalation surface (CVE-NeacSafe64.sys < v1.0.0.8 for kernel-mode shellcode execution via crafted IOCTL).
FragPunk's enforcement is unusually broad on the "teaming with cheaters" axis. The March 17-23, 2025 weekly bulletin explicitly counted "46 accounts penalized for teaming with cheaters" alongside the 3,584 permabans for cheating itself — matchmaking restricted, ranked points stripped. The October 2024 launch-policy line is verbatim explicit on first-detection severity: "we'll have no choice but to issue an indefinite ban." The reporting channel is [email protected] (no published appeal SLA). The path back into Shard Clash on Bridge / Ozone / Hometown / Dive / Vault / Wharf isn't a fresh Bad Guitar account, a VPN, or a new SSD — NEAC reads a constellation of identifiers, so swapping one component leaves the rest matching the banlist. TraceX runs once against that exact NEAC-read constellation — motherboard, drives, NIC, BIOS, ACPI — rewrites it permanently, then removes itself, so the next Phanuel handshake has nothing left from the old fingerprint to match.
Verified
Bad Guitar Studio's March 17-23, 2025 weekly Banned Players List for FragPunk announced 3,584 permabans plus 46 accounts penalized for "teaming with cheaters" — matchmaking restricted, ranked points stripped — under a verbatim policy boilerplate repeated across every bans bulletin: "Bad Guitar Studio upholds a strict no-mercy policy against cheating, with bans permanently issued the moment evidence is confirmed. All bans are backed by conclusive evidence and strictly enforced under the User Agreement." The actual kernel driver on disk is NetEase's NEAC (`NeacSafe.sys` / `FPSNeacSafe.sys`), not the in-game-loader-displayed "Phanuel." (Source: @PlayFragPunk on X, Mar 25, 2025; Steam community technical threads.)
Why TraceX
You shouldn't need to replace your PC to play FragPunk again. That's why TraceX exists.
Run TraceX once before launching FragPunk. No Phanuel hooks, startup entry, or background service remain when the tool is removed.
Your new hardware identifiers don't reset on reboot or reinstall. Phanuel reads them as permanent — exactly like a fresh build.
TraceX rewrites its documented Phanuel coverage set, including supported board, drive, GPU, network, and Machine GUID fields.
TraceX runs before FragPunk launches — not during Phanuel gameplay. No background process remains to affect frame rate.
Compatibility notes record the latest published FragPunk and Phanuel verification instead of assuming every release is unchanged.
When you load FragPunk, Phanuel reads the supported identifiers produced by the completed rewrite workflow.
Setup Guide
Getting around a FragPunk HWID ban used to take hours — reinstalling Windows, flashing BIOS, wiping drivers, re-downloading everything, and praying it worked. One wrong step meant starting over and burning another account. With TraceX, a single click does more than all of that combined.
Free download
Submit your email and receive your free TraceX HWID Spoofer license in a few minutes. Run it once on your PC to permanently rewrite the identifiers Phanuel fingerprints, then delete the binary and reinstall FragPunk.
Detection Analysis
Phanuel can combine identifiers from your PC into a hardware profile for FragPunk. TraceX rewrites the supported fields shown below before the game runs.
When you launch FragPunk, your real hardware IDs are scanned and matched against ban records. Every new account on a flagged PC is blocked.
FragPunk sees a completely new machine with no ban history. New account, clean hardware — access granted.
Ban Reference
FAQ
Both — but they refer to the same product. The in-game loader displays "Phanuel Anti-Cheat" as the consumer-facing brand, while the actual kernel driver on disk is NetEase's NEAC (`NeacSafe.sys` or `FPSNeacSafe.sys`, also called NeacProtect). NEAC is the same kernel anti-cheat NetEase deploys across many of its other titles. The "Phanuel" branding is FragPunk-specific UI; the underlying enforcement engine is NEAC.
Both. NEAC's kernel driver reads hardware identifiers (motherboard, drives, NIC, BIOS, ACPI) at every launch. Account-level bans are documented in the weekly Banned Players List bulletins, and community evidence on r/PlayFragPunk shows fresh Bad Guitar accounts catching the same kick on previously-flagged rigs. The October 2024 launch policy is verbatim about severity: "we'll have no choice but to issue an indefinite ban."
There is no published appeal SLA. The [email protected] address is a cheater-report channel, not an appeals channel — the actual appeals workflow is undocumented publicly. Players who believe they were false-banned (especially after hardware swaps or fresh OS installs) consistently report no recourse through the report email. Bad Guitar's policy boilerplate covers all bans verbatim: "All bans are backed by conclusive evidence."
The March 17-23, 2025 weekly bulletin explicitly counted 46 accounts penalized for teaming with cheaters alongside the cheaters themselves — matchmaking restricted, ranked points stripped. NEAC + Bad Guitar's enforcement layer flags accounts that repeatedly stack queue with confirmed cheaters. The penalty is typically less than a full perma — restricted matchmaking and ranked-point removal — but extends FragPunk's enforcement scope beyond the cheaters themselves.
No. NEAC's kernel driver reads hardware identifiers at every launch, and the `FPSNeacSafe.sys` driver itself persists in `C:\Windows\System32\drivers\` after FragPunk uninstall. Wiping Windows touches files but not the firmware-level identifiers (motherboard SMBIOS, drive serials, NIC MAC) that NEAC reads. Reinstalling brings the same fingerprint back at the next handshake.
Yes. Steam community threads consistently document `FPSNeacSafe.sys` and related NeacSafe drivers persisting in `C:\Windows\System32\drivers\` after FragPunk is removed — there's no automated cleanup. There's also a published CVE against NeacSafe64.sys versions before v1.0.0.8 for kernel-mode shellcode execution via crafted IOCTL. To remove the driver, manually delete the `Neac*.sys` files from System32\drivers and disable the NEAC service.
r/PlayFragPunk user reports (e.g., u/ChewyOnYoutube, May 2025) document 10-year bans landing the same day as a used-component install + fresh Windows install. NEAC's hardware-fingerprint surface is broad — used motherboards, GPUs, peripherals, or drives carrying prior NEAC flags from previous owners can trigger a fresh ban on the new account. There is no public NEAC API to query whether a component is on the banlist before purchase.
Officially supported on Windows only via Steam and Epic. NEAC's kernel driver is a Windows-only module and does not run under Wine / Proton — Steam Deck (SteamOS) and other Linux/Proton attempts fail at the NEAC handshake. Steam Deck users who dual-boot Windows can play, but native Linux / SteamOS is not supported.