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
A fresh VRChat account can meet the same EAC profile on launch. TraceX Spoofer permanently rewrites the supported HWID once for free, then you delete it.
Free diagnostic
VRChat can show the ban reason "Modified Client Detected," while its EAC release notes say a non-standard client may simply fail to launch and display an error; repeated enforcement across clean accounts on the same PC is the stronger HWID signal.
Hardware Coverage
VRChat'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 VRChat and why it's difficult to bypass without a spoofer. Below is a sample of the identifiers being tracked.
| Hardware Identifier | VRChat 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.
“When you launch VRChat, the Anti-Cheat Measures may monitor your gameplay and device's RAM, processes, communications, and file storage for purposes of detecting violations of, and enforcing, these Terms, including but not limited to the use of "modified clients" ("Mods"). … We also may terminate your Account if we determine you have been cheating.”
VRChat — Terms of Service §13.3 "Anti-Cheat Measures" (hello.vrchat.com/legal)
Why You Need This
You launch VRChat from Steam for a Friends+ night, but never reach your home world. Instead you see "Modified Client Detected" or an EAC error that stops the PC client. You clean-reinstall, try a separate VRChat login, and still cannot tell whether you are looking at a blocked modified client, an account sanction, or a machine-level flag. That distinction matters. VRChat says a non-standard client can simply fail to launch; a real HWID case is the pattern where clean accounts keep being associated with the same Windows PC.
VRChat uses its own anti-cheat and fraud systems alongside Easy Anti-Cheat. Build 1213 added EAC to the Windows client in July 2022, but VRChat's launch FAQ draws a line that most HWID pages miss: a non-standard client can fail to launch with an error, and loading a mod can disconnect and close the application. That event alone does not prove a hardware ban. The Terms of Service say the Anti-Cheat Measures may inspect RAM, processes, communications, and file storage, while §16 permits collection of a Unique Device Identifier plus information about the device, system, client, and peripherals. VRChat does not publish a lookup table that maps one EAC error to one banned serial, so the useful diagnosis is recurrence across separate clean accounts on the same PC, not the splash-screen wording by itself.
The hardware side is a composite, not one magic HWID. Concrete Windows collection surfaces include the SMBIOS Type 2 baseboard serial, motherboard or system UUID, physical disk firmware serials returned through storage IOCTLs such as IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY, separate 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 also available as hardware-rooted identity and boot-integrity signals, although VRChat and Epic do not publish whether the VRChat integration stores them or how it weights any field. Reinstalling VRChat changes none of those values. Reinstalling Windows may rotate MachineGuid and a volume serial, yet normally leaves the board UUID, controller-reported disk serials, NIC identities, and TPM material in place, so the rebuilt PC can still resemble the old profile.
EAC runs in Fortnite, Rust, Apex Legends, and other games, which means the same machine can present the same classes of board, storage, Windows, network, and security-state signals across the roster. That creates cross-game re-identification exposure, but it is not one universal ban list: each publisher controls its own enforcement, and a VRChat sanction does not automatically ban every EAC title. TraceX Spoofer addresses the supported identifier set with a permanent rewrite rather than a temporary session spoof that disappears after reboot. Complete the one-time setup, run TraceX once, verify the rewritten profile, then delete the tool. No daemon or per-boot rerun remains. The rewrite does not restore a banned VRChat account or replace the official appeal route, and VRChat's Community Guidelines still prohibit circumventing bans and anti-tamper systems.
Verified
VRChat's official release notes date version 2022.2.2, Build 1213, to July 26, 2022 and state: "This version of VRChat includes our implementation of Easy Anti-Cheat and Secure Instances." The July 25 Security Update adds that EAC activates only when VRChat launches, closes when VRChat closes, and blocks a currently modified client with an error rather than treating prior, fully removed mods as an automatic ban. (Sources: docs.vrchat.com/docs/vrchat-202222 and hello.vrchat.com/blog/vrchat-security-update.)
Why TraceX
You shouldn't need to replace your PC to play VRChat again. That's why TraceX exists.
Run TraceX once before opening VRChat through Steam (also Oculus/Meta Store, Pico Store). The rewrite persists, so you can delete the tool before EasyAntiCheat starts.
VRChat's hardware ban (hwid) is tied to the profile EasyAntiCheat reads. Rewritten identifiers persist across reboots without a TraceX daemon.
For VRChat, the documented EasyAntiCheat coverage includes CPU / CPUID Profile, SMBIOS Type 2 / System UUID, GPU Device Identifier. TraceX rewrites the supported fields in one pass.
VRChat launches from Steam (also Oculus/Meta Store, Pico Store) after the rewrite is complete. No TraceX process remains during EasyAntiCheat gameplay to consume resources.
VRChat'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 VRChat with VRChat account (links Steam, Oculus/Meta, Pico, Viveport, or email), EasyAntiCheat reads the supported identifiers produced by the completed permanent rewrite.
Setup Guide
Getting around a VRChat 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 VRChat.
Detection Analysis
EasyAntiCheat can combine identifiers from your PC into a hardware profile for VRChat. TraceX rewrites the supported fields shown below before the game runs.
When you launch VRChat, your real hardware IDs are scanned and matched against ban records. Every new account on a flagged PC is blocked.
VRChat sees a completely new machine with no ban history. New account, clean hardware — access granted.
Ban Reference
All EasyAntiCheat Games
All of these games use EasyAntiCheat — the same anti-cheat that banned you in VRChat. One permanent TraceX rewrite covers every one of them.
















FAQ
VRChat's Terms allow collection of a Unique Device Identifier and information about the device, system, client, and peripherals. Its Privacy Policy also says anti-cheat services analyze device and software data. That supports device-level enforcement capability, but VRChat does not publish a rule saying every ban is an HWID ban. A sanction that follows separate clean accounts only on one PC is stronger evidence than a single launch error.
No. "Modified Client Detected" is a reported VRChat ban reason, but VRChat's official EAC notes also say a non-standard client can fail to launch and display an error without describing that event as a hardware ban. First cleanly reinstall the official client and separate a repairable EAC startup problem from enforcement. Hardware matching becomes more plausible when unrelated clean accounts work elsewhere and are actioned only after this PC is used.
Relevant Windows surfaces include the SMBIOS Type 2 baseboard serial, motherboard UUID, physical disk firmware serials exposed through storage IOCTLs, filesystem volume serials, physical NIC MAC addresses, and MachineGuid at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography. TPM 2.0 endorsement-key material and Secure Boot state can add platform-trust signals. VRChat and Epic do not publish the exact VRChat field list or weighting.
A VRChat reinstall only replaces client files, so it does not change the board, storage, Windows, or network identifiers underneath them. A clean Windows install may regenerate MachineGuid and a filesystem volume serial, but it normally leaves SMBIOS Type 2, the motherboard UUID, controller-reported disk serials, physical NIC identities, and TPM material intact. A composite match can therefore survive either reinstall.
Changing the login changes account identity, not the Windows machine. If the enforcement is account-only, a separate account is still ban circumvention under VRChat's Community Guidelines. If it is device-linked, the new login can present the same SMBIOS, disk, MAC, MachineGuid, and platform-trust signals. It also cannot recover Trust rank, avatars, purchases, or the original account. The official route for a disputed ban is an appeal.
Do not assume it does. Quest and Pico can run VRChat without a Windows PC, so they do not present the same Windows board, disk, registry, and NIC profile used by the PC client. The VRChat account is still the same server-side identity, however, and an account suspension follows that login across supported platforms. VRChat does not publish a guarantee that changing client platform clears device-linked enforcement, so use the appeal result as the authority.
No automatic EAC-wide ban is documented. Those games use the same anti-cheat technology and can see comparable classes of board, storage, Windows, network, and platform-trust signals, so the same machine profile can recur across integrations. Each publisher still controls its own sanctions; a VRChat action does not become an Epic, Facepunch, or EA ban by default. The blast radius is re-identification exposure, not one shared universal ban list.
Use the VRChat Ticket System, select "Moderation Report/Appeal," then choose "Ban Appeal." VRChat's help article says this is the only contact method for a ban. Include the exact notice, the affected account and platform, when it appeared, and why you believe it is wrong. Keep an EAC launch-repair error separate from an account or device sanction. An appeal provides review; it is not a promise that confirmed enforcement will be removed.
A temporary session spoofer presents replacement values only while its driver or process is loaded; after reboot, the original profile can return and the tool must run again. TraceX Spoofer uses a one-time permanent rewrite of its supported identifier set. Complete setup once, run TraceX, verify the rewritten values, then delete the tool. No background daemon or per-boot session remains, and the rewrite does not restore the banned VRChat account.
VRChat's official Security Update says Playspace Mover, OpenVR Advanced Settings, OVR Toolkit, and XSOverlay are separate SteamVR programs and are not treated as client modifications. It also says a fully removed old mod does not cause an automatic ban, while a currently modified client is blocked and must be cleanly reinstalled. The OpenVR AMD FSR tool was specifically listed as a modification because it changes client behavior.
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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 VRChat.
You can also browse every game TraceX supports or read up on the anti-cheat engines behind these bans.