HWID Spoofing Guides
Games That HWID Ban: 2026 Coverage List
Games that HWID ban, grouped by anti-cheat engine: 59 titles across EasyAntiCheat, BattlEye, Vanguard, RICOCHET and more, with what each ban covers
Hunt Showdown can recognize the old rig through EAC after an account change. Run TraceX Spoofer once as a free permanent HWID spoofer, then delete it.
Free diagnostic
CryCloud Error 0x4000c ("You have been banned") or a Steam Game Ban is an account-enforcement signal; repeat sanctions on accounts used only on the same PC are the stronger HWID clue.
Hardware Coverage
Hunt Showdown's anti-cheat silently reads dozens of hardware identifiers from your PC while it's running — long before you reach a match. Learn how EasyAntiCheat works in Hunt Showdown and why it's difficult to bypass without a spoofer. Below is a sample of the identifiers being tracked.
| Hardware Identifier | Hunt Showdown Tracks | TraceX Rewrites |
|---|---|---|
| CPU / CPUID Profile | Yes | Yes |
| SMBIOS Type 2 / System UUID | Yes | Yes |
| GPU Device Identifier | Yes | Yes |
| Disk & Volume Serials | Yes | Yes |
| Physical NIC MAC Addresses | Yes | Yes |
| Windows MachineGuid | Yes | Yes |
Reality Check
And when they're denied — which is almost always for HWID bans — your hardware stays permanently blacklisted. No second chances.
“HUNT: SHOWDOWN 1896 uses cheat prevention systems to ensure the game experience. Such systems include systems developed by Crytek and/or systems/services provided by third party developers (e.g. EAC or Anybrain). [...] Data collected in this context will be used to detect cheating activities and ban respective accounts.”
Crytek — Hunt: Showdown 1896 EULA, Section 6 "Digital Rights Management (DRM) & Cheat Prevention/Detection"
Why You Need This
You launch Hunt: Showdown 1896 through Steam, select Bounty Hunt, and CryCloud returns Error 0x4000c: "You have been banned." Your Hunters, Traits, Blood Bonds, and prestige are still visible, but the next Mission never starts. A reinstall only replaces game files. If a different Steam account works on another PC and then catches enforcement after this rig loads Hunt, the useful clue is the machine, not Stillwater Bayou or the account name. That distinction matters because a one-off 0x4000c can be an account sanction or error; repeated same-PC enforcement is the stronger hardware-match pattern.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 has three enforcement surfaces that thin ban guides often collapse into one. A Steam Game Ban or CryCloud 0x4000c message concerns access to the account, while a recurring sanction after separate accounts touch the same PC is the stronger device-link pattern. Crytek's privacy policy confirms collection of Steam ID, an internal PlayerID, Device ID, hardware information, memory-scan data, and input or gameplay telemetry. Crytek also says Easy Anti-Cheat can deliver automated ban waves, Customer Support manually reviews community reports, and Anybrain analyzes mouse, keyboard, and controller input. None of those first-party pages publishes Hunt's exact HWID recipe, so a single ban notice cannot reveal which field matched.
The durable Windows surfaces behind a composite device profile are more specific than "your hardware." They include the SMBIOS Type 2 baseboard serial and motherboard or system UUID; physical disk firmware serials exposed through storage IOCTLs such as IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY; separate filesystem volume serials; physical NIC MAC addresses; and MachineGuid under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography. A TPM 2.0 endorsement key and Secure Boot state are separate hardware-rooted identity and boot-trust signals. No public Crytek or Epic source confirms that Hunt uses either one for a ban match, and neither company publishes per-field weights. That distinction matters: the identifiers are real collection surfaces, but claiming a leaked Hunt formula would be invention.
Reinstalling Hunt changes binaries, and reinstalling Windows may regenerate MachineGuid or a volume serial. Neither action replaces the baseboard serial, system UUID, disk firmware identity, or physical NIC. EAC also runs in Rust, Fortnite, Apex Legends, and other games, so the same classes of device signal can be exposed across integrations; publishers still control their own sanctions, which means a Hunt ban does not automatically ban every EAC title. For a confirmed persistent device link, TraceX Spoofer permanently rewrites its supported SMBIOS, storage, MAC, and Windows identifiers instead of presenting temporary values for one session. Complete the one-time setup, run TraceX once, verify the rewritten profile, then delete the tool. No daemon or per-boot rerun remains, and the rewrite does not restore the banned Steam account or replace Crytek's appeal process.
Verified
Crytek's official Fair Play Task Force update, published May 2, 2025, states that "repeat offenders are instantly banned upon account creation." The post confirms detection of banned players who return on a new account and continue cheating, but it does not disclose the identifiers or matching formula used.
Why TraceX
You shouldn't need to replace your PC to play Hunt Showdown again. That's why TraceX exists.
Run TraceX once before opening Hunt Showdown through Steam. The rewrite persists, so you can delete the tool before EasyAntiCheat starts.
Hunt Showdown's hardware ban (hwid) is tied to the profile EasyAntiCheat reads. Rewritten identifiers persist across reboots without a TraceX daemon.
For Hunt Showdown, the documented EasyAntiCheat coverage includes CPU / CPUID Profile, SMBIOS Type 2 / System UUID, GPU Device Identifier. TraceX rewrites the supported fields in one pass.
Hunt Showdown launches from Steam after the rewrite is complete. No TraceX process remains during EasyAntiCheat gameplay to consume resources.
Hunt Showdown's hardware ban (hwid) details stay separate from the current EasyAntiCheat status, so a game update is never treated as unchanged by default.
When you open Hunt Showdown with Steam account, EasyAntiCheat reads the supported identifiers produced by the completed permanent rewrite.
Setup Guide
Getting around a Hunt Showdown 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 EasyAntiCheat fingerprints, then delete the binary and reinstall Hunt Showdown.
Detection Analysis
EasyAntiCheat can combine identifiers from your PC into a hardware profile for Hunt Showdown. TraceX rewrites the supported fields shown below before the game runs.
When you launch Hunt Showdown, your real hardware IDs are scanned and matched against ban records. Every new account on a flagged PC is blocked.
Hunt Showdown sees a completely new machine with no ban history. New account, clean hardware — access granted.
Ban Reference
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FAQ
Crytek confirms that Hunt collects Device ID and hardware information for anti-cheat use, and its Fair Play Task Force says it can detect banned players who return on new accounts and continue cheating. It does not publish a Hunt-specific HWID formula or say every game ban includes hardware action. Repeated enforcement on separate accounts used only on the same PC is stronger evidence than one Steam Game Ban.
Start with the exact notice. Steam's permanent Game Ban and CryCloud Error 0x4000c ("You have been banned") identify account enforcement, not the hardware field behind it. An HWID link becomes more plausible when another Steam account works from a different PC, then receives enforcement after launching Hunt on this one. A single EAC startup or connection error is not enough to diagnose a hardware ban.
Relevant Windows collection surfaces include the SMBIOS Type 2 baseboard serial, system UUID, physical disk serials queried through storage IOCTLs, filesystem volume serials, physical NIC MAC addresses, and MachineGuid under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography. TPM 2.0 endorsement-key material and Secure Boot state are separate trust signals, but no public Hunt source confirms either as a ban field.
Not reliably. Reinstalling Hunt replaces game files. A Windows format may regenerate MachineGuid and a filesystem volume serial, but it does not rewrite the SMBIOS baseboard serial, motherboard UUID, physical disk firmware serials, or the MAC addresses burned into network adapters. A composite profile can still resemble the old machine after a clean install, so a format is neither proof nor a complete hardware reset.
A new Steam account does not remove the original Game Ban and still presents the same PC to Hunt's anti-cheat controls. Crytek's May 2, 2025 update says banned players who create a new account and continue cheating can be detected and instantly banned. The post does not say hardware is the only matching signal. If you believe the first sanction was wrong, appeal it instead of using another account as a test.
No. Error 0x4000c carries the "You have been banned" text, but it identifies the access problem rather than the matched identifier. Hunt players have also reported isolated false-positive incidents where that code was later cleared, so one appearance does not prove a permanent device record. Check whether Steam shows a Game Ban, save the exact message, and use Crytek's appeal path before diagnosing HWID enforcement.
Crytek describes Anybrain as a behavioral system: it collects mouse, keyboard, and controller inputs and analyzes them for abnormal patterns. EAC handles automated detections and ban waves, while Customer Support manually reviews community reports. Anybrain can strengthen the evidence around a player, but Crytek has not said it adds a deeper motherboard, disk, TPM, or Secure Boot scan to Hunt's HWID profile.
Yes. Crytek's April 14, 2026 Fair Play update says its Appeals System is available through customer support and that every appeal triggers a comprehensive manual investigation. Include the Steam account, exact notice, approximate time, and any account-security context. Crytek publishes no response-time guarantee, so claims that every appeal takes a fixed number of days are not verifiable.
No automatic EAC-roster ban is documented. Hunt, Rust, Fortnite, Apex Legends, and other games run EAC integrations that can observe comparable categories of device information, so reusing a flagged machine profile creates cross-title exposure. Publishers still administer their own sanctions, however. A Hunt Game Ban does not by itself prove that a Facepunch, Epic, or EA account is banned.
A temporary session spoofer presents replacement values only while its process or driver is active. The original profile can return after reboot, so the tool must run again. TraceX uses a one-time permanent rewrite for its supported identifier set. Run it once, verify the rewritten values, then delete the tool; no background daemon or per-boot session remains. It cannot restore the banned Steam account or cancel Crytek's sanction.
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Next Steps
Work out which ban you are actually dealing with before you change anything. The ban-type checker walks the symptoms, and how long a EasyAntiCheat ban lasts covers whether waiting it out is realistic for Hunt Showdown.
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