Free PUBG HWID Spoofer
Free permanent HWID spoofer for PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS. Bypass BattlEye + KRAFTON Zakynthos hardware bans by rewriting your IDs once, then delete the tool.
Free diagnostic
Is It Really a PUBG HWID Ban?
A PUBG hardware ban surfaces as a popup on the loading screen into lobby reading "You have been permanently banned for hacking/cheating" with a link to the Rules of Conduct — no second match permitted on the same rig, and your IGN scheduled to appear on the next weekly bans notice PDF on pubg.com a few days later.
Can you still log into your game account?
Hardware Coverage
What PUBG Tracks — and What TraceX Rewrites
PUBG's anti-cheat silently reads dozens of hardware identifiers from your PC while it's running — long before you reach a match. Learn how PUBG's anti-cheat works and why it's difficult to bypass without a spoofer. Below is a sample of the identifiers being tracked.
| Hardware Identifier | PUBG 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
PUBG Appeals Almost Never Work
And when they're denied — which is almost always for HWID bans — your hardware stays permanently blacklisted. No second chances.
“If you use unauthorized programs or hardware devices that are not permitted by KRAFTON that promote unfair game play using specific mouse, Direct Access Memory ("DMA") board or other hardware device (collectively "Unauthorized Programs or Devices"), you may be subject to strong penalties, such as permanent game ban and restrictions of using the Service on your hardware devices.”
KRAFTON — PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS Rules of Conduct
Why You Need This
Do You Really Need an HWID Spoofer for PUBG?
A PUBG hardware ban does not start at the kill cam — it starts the next time you queue Erangel and the BattlEye loader hands the lobby a hardware fingerprint that BattlEye and KRAFTON's Zakynthos already have on file. The popup says "permanently banned for hacking/cheating," there is no appeal flow, and the ban list will be stapled into the next weekly bans notice on pubg.com a few days later. Buy a fresh Steam key, drop a new KRAFTON account on the same rig, and the same machine that bricked your last chicken-dinner streak will brick the next one before you ever loot a level-3 helmet.
PUBG bans live on the silicon, not the launcher. When KRAFTON or BattlEye flag your match, the punishment they hand back is a fingerprint of the hardware that ran the cheat — motherboard serial, SMBIOS UUID, NIC MAC, drive IDs, BIOS info — written into BattlEye's ban index and KRAFTON's proprietary Zakynthos enforcement system. That is why reinstalling PUBG, reformatting Windows, swapping Steam accounts, or even buying a new KRAFTON ID on the same rig changes nothing: the loader greets the same fingerprint and the lobby evicts you before the plane spawns over Pochinki.
This also explains the "every new account on this PC dies inside ten minutes" pattern that fills r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS. KRAFTON's Rules of Conduct authorizes permanent sanctions against "all accounts created on that device or associated with that IP address, even if accessed on a different PC/console" — a clause that explicitly anticipates ban evasion via new Steam accounts and addresses it at the hardware layer.
The Zakynthos pipeline added kernel-driver detection and DMA-hack detection in the second half of 2025, which is why brand-new accounts spinning up on machines previously flagged for DMA tooling now get caught faster than they did during the free-to-play surge after January 12, 2022. KRAFTON also publishes a weekly bans notice on pubg.com — a per-week PDF list of banned IGNs — which means a hardware ban is not just a private penalty; it is a rolling public artifact unique to PUBG.
Until the hardware identifiers are rewritten, every Steam ID on this rig walks into the same kick. TraceX rewrites those identifiers permanently, in one run, then deletes itself.
Verified
In a single week (October 27 – November 2, 2025), KRAFTON permanently banned 131,078 PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS accounts for cheat-program use — published as part of the franchise's weekly bans notice cadence on pubg.com. Cumulatively, KRAFTON reports about 7.81 million accounts permanently banned for cheats as of November 2025, and confiscated $1,713,823 through legal proceedings against cheat sellers through September 2025. (Sources: pubg.com/en/news/9386 weekly bans notice; pubg.com/en/news/9634 2025 Anti-Cheat Review.)
Why TraceX
Built for PUBG Players
You shouldn't need to replace your PC to play PUBGagain. That's why TraceX exists.
Run TraceX once before launching PUBG. No daemon, no startup entry, no background service. When you're done, delete the binary.
Your new hardware identifiers don't reset on reboot or reinstall. BattlEye reads them as permanent — exactly like a fresh build.
Every hardware identifier BattlEye reads — CPU, board, drives, GPU, NIC, Machine GUID — rewritten in a single pass.
TraceX runs before PUBG launches — not during. No FPS drops, no stutter, no driver hooks left running while you play.
TraceX updates ahead of PUBG detection cycles. New versions ship before changes land in the game.
When you load PUBG, BattlEye fingerprints what looks like a fresh system. Your real hardware is never exposed.
Setup Guide
How to Bypass a PUBG HWID Ban
Getting around a PUBG 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
Get the free PUBG HWID spoofer.
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 BattlEye fingerprints, then delete the binary and reinstall PUBG.
Detection Analysis
How PUBG Scans Your Hardware
PUBG tracks dozens of unique identifiers from your PC and creates a unique hardware profile. It also leaves behind registry traces even after uninstalling — designed to detect you on return. TraceX takes care of everything.
When you launch PUBG, your real hardware IDs are scanned and matched against ban records. Every new account on a flagged PC is blocked.
PUBG sees a completely new machine with no ban history. New account, clean hardware — access granted.
Ban Reference
PUBG Ban Details
All BattlEye Games
Other Games Using BattlEye
All of these games use BattlEye — the same anti-cheat that banned you in PUBG. One TraceX license covers every one of them.
FAQ
PUBG HWID Ban — Frequently Asked Questions
Is the PUBG ban actually permanent? It says permanent in the popup but support keeps telling people to make new accounts.
Yes. KRAFTON's Rules of Conduct explicitly authorize "permanent game ban and restrictions of using the Service on your hardware devices" for unauthorized program or hardware-device use, and BattlEye states global bans are permanent with no exceptions. The "make a new account" advice players occasionally receive from PUBG support is a workaround for non-cheat penalties (e.g., a banned IGN); it does not apply to a cheating ban tied to your hardware fingerprint, where new Steam or KRAFTON accounts on the same PC will be re-flagged by BattlEye + Zakynthos before your first match.
What is Zakynthos and why do I keep seeing the name in PUBG dev letters?
Zakynthos is KRAFTON's proprietary anti-cheat solution, deployed in PUBG in January 2021 and layered on top of BattlEye. The August 6, 2025 PC update specifically enhanced Zakynthos to "more precisely detect and analyze the behavior of DMA-based cheats that attempt to bypass anti-cheat detection," and the September 4, 2025 update reported 30,000+ DMA-based permanent bans in August alone. It is the engine behind most of KRAFTON's 2025 hardware-tier action.
If I move my SSD or just buy a new motherboard, will I get past my PUBG hardware ban?
No. BattlEye + Zakynthos do not fingerprint a single component. They sample a constellation of identifiers (motherboard, SMBIOS UUID, drives, NIC MAC, BIOS) and re-detect the rig if any meaningful subset still matches. Replacing a single SSD or even reinstalling Windows leaves enough surface intact that the loader re-flags the machine before you reach the lobby.
I appealed my PUBG ban for years — turns out PUBG was telling me to appeal to BattlEye and BattlEye says I was never banned by them. What's going on?
Two enforcement systems run in parallel on PUBG: BattlEye (third-party kernel anti-cheat) and Zakynthos (KRAFTON's in-house tool, deployed January 2021). Either can issue a hardware-tied permanent ban independently. If BattlEye says they didn't ban you, the action came from Zakynthos / KRAFTON's manual review, and the "appeal to BattlEye" instruction was misrouted. KRAFTON also caps appeal eligibility at five years from the ban date.
I got perma-banned and I never used cheats — only thing I did differently that night was alt-tab a lot. Did alt-tabbing ban me?
Probably not the alt-tabbing itself, but PUBG's June 28, 2025 Anti-Cheat Roadmap shipped behavior-pattern and contextual-interaction detection on top of BattlEye and Zakynthos, and a ban from that night almost certainly came from a flag in that pipeline rather than a traditional cheat signature. Either way, the ban is hardware-tied: until the rig's fingerprint is rewritten, every new Steam account you spin up will fail the BattlEye handshake the same way.
Why doesn't PUBG just permanently HWID-ban every confirmed cheater in one go?
KRAFTON does issue hardware bans, but only after high-confidence detection — its 2018-era dev letters call hardware bans "a very sensitive method" because shared rigs (PC cafés, family PCs) can be impacted. The 2025 Zakynthos updates added kernel-driver and DMA-hack detection partly to raise confidence enough to harden hardware-tier bans against repeat offenders, and KRAFTON's August 2025 numbers (30,000+ DMA-based bans in one month) reflect that.
PUBG support told me to just make a new account after they perma-banned me — is that allowed?
For non-cheat penalties (e.g., a banned in-game name), yes — PUBG's Rules of Conduct only restrict creation of multiple accounts "for the purpose of engaging in misconduct." For a cheating ban, no — KRAFTON's Rules of Conduct authorize permanent sanctions against "all accounts created on that device or associated with that IP address, even if accessed on a different PC/console," which is why every new Steam account on the same rig dies inside one match.
Does a hardware ban from another BattlEye game (Rust, R6, Tarkov) carry over to PUBG?
Not automatically. BattlEye's documented public policy describes per-title enforcement, and there is no broadcast "all BattlEye titles" ban list. Bohemia Interactive titles (Arma 3 ↔ DayZ) confirm cross-title carryover within their own family, but PUBG is its own enforcement scope. KRAFTON's Zakynthos layer is PUBG-only. The hardware fingerprint your ban writes against PUBG is what stays banned — separate from any BE bans on other publishers' titles.
I've had a PUBG game ban for almost 7 years — is there any path back?
Per recent PUBG support replies, KRAFTON enforces a five-year cap on appeals — anything older is treated as final. BattlEye's own appeal policy adds that no details about your ban (including evidence) will be revealed, so even a fresh review would not surface what triggered the original action. The hardware fingerprint stays on file regardless of account state.
PUBG's weekly bans notices keep showing six-figure numbers — are these real cheaters or recycled accounts?
Both. KRAFTON's weekly bans notice (e.g., 131,078 perma-bans in one week, October 27 – November 2, 2025) lists accounts, not unique players; cheat groups respawn with fresh Steam accounts faster than the notice publishes. That is exactly why the action that matters is the hardware-tier ban underneath the account ban — and why BattlEye + Zakynthos invest heavily in fingerprinting at the kernel level.