Are you on a 50/40 series Nvidia GPU?
GUIDs of Nvidia GPUs of anything below 40 series had issues aka were not 100% unique, you can google and look at NVIDIA forums.
Banning them would be retarded, they might have fixed it on the 40/50 series tho, that's maybe why EAC started to ban now.
AMD do not have any serials so, they won't be able to ban anything there
edit: would be still funny tho, they did that 2 years ago already and reverted it becasue people would just sell their GPU on second hand, and the new buyers get banned lmao. I really dont see this happening all over again
Even FaceIT/Valo only ban them in very very hard offenders/manuals.
My banned GPU is 4060 AsusTek, but ye I swapped GPU and my bans stopped and I am currently 150 hours playing with no issues
My banned GPU is 4060 AsusTek, but ye I swapped GPU and my bans stopped and I am currently 150 hours playing with no issues
You have a friends/old PC that you could test the GPU in and test :P?
My guess is they only ban the GPU GUID for some time or use the GUID in cross-reference with the general setup.
Example:
GUID + Mobo Type/name = ban again, no matter what serials u change, it wouldn't bypass it.
The chances of a second hand buyer having the same mobo after buying your card is very very slim.
Welp or NVIDIA fixed the GUID issues and EAC has enough data now to see that and started to implement it again :P
You have a friends/old PC that you could test the GPU in and test :P?
My guess is they only ban the GPU GUID for some time or use the GUID in cross-reference with the general setup.
Example:
GUID + Mobo Type/name = ban again, no matter what serials u change, it wouldn't bypass it.
The chances of a second hand buyer having the same mobo after buying your card is very very slim.
Welp or NVIDIA fixed the GUID issues and EAC has enough data now to see that and started to implement it again :P
sad thing is that I dont have another motherboard which is perm-spoofable, so I cant accurately test it.
But they might combine CPU and other stuff in ur PC to make a profile to not ****-over non cheating players if they do ban a re-used GPU.
but many people are not reselling GPU's anymore so I am not sure
+REP. Extremely useful guide. I was previously HWID banned; after swapping out an nvme m.2 ssd for a new, and following the guide, my ban has gone away.
Maybe I wasn't even banned in the first place and this comment is just a lie??? I guess we'll never know
You have a friends/old PC that you could test the GPU in and test :P?
My guess is they only ban the GPU GUID for some time or use the GUID in cross-reference with the general setup.
Example:
GUID + Mobo Type/name = ban again, no matter what serials u change, it wouldn't bypass it.
The chances of a second hand buyer having the same mobo after buying your card is very very slim.
Welp or NVIDIA fixed the GUID issues and EAC has enough data now to see that and started to implement it again :P
This does seem more likely, than just outright banning the GUID. I have a customer who (to my knowledge) did everything correctly in terms of spoofing for Rust. However he's on a 40-series GPU & was also game banned.
Usually i wouldn't "relate" ARP to Rust in any way, but did anyone consider if they started messing with that? Imo it's one of the easiest things they could flag or ban, & most people won't even bother dealing with getting a new router or flashing OpenWRT to their current, to MAC change, set up a subnet etc.
This does seem more likely, than just outright banning the GUID. I have a customer who (to my knowledge) did everything correctly in terms of spoofing for Rust. However he's on a 40-series GPU & was also game banned.
Usually i wouldn't "relate" ARP to Rust in any way, but did anyone consider if they started messing with that? Imo it's one of the easiest things they could flag or ban, & most people won't even bother dealing with getting a new router or flashing OpenWRT to their current, to MAC change, set up a subnet etc.
ARP would be useless if the client device was on its own subnet away from every other devices. Would be a good way to catch cheaters who are too lazy to install openwrt or Pfsense(depending on the hardware) and configure the network.
Would it be possible to block the ARP requests that EAC send?
This does seem more likely, than just outright banning the GUID. I have a customer who (to my knowledge) did everything correctly in terms of spoofing for Rust. However he's on a 40-series GPU & was also game banned.
Didn't do everything correct then. There is more to this than it was a few months ago.
Quote:
Originally Posted by KMZGang
Usually i wouldn't "relate" ARP to Rust in any way, but did anyone consider if they started messing with that? Imo it's one of the easiest things they could flag or ban, & most people won't even bother dealing with getting a new router or flashing OpenWRT to their current, to MAC change, set up a subnet etc.
ARP would be useless if the client device was on its own subnet away from every other devices. Would be a good way to catch cheaters who are too lazy to install openwrt or Pfsense(depending on the hardware) and configure the network.
Would it be possible to block the ARP requests that EAC send?
Agreed on the first part. That's why people do that to dodge flags from VGK, Faceit and in some cases FN. Hell i've been using it to dodge VGK's TPM enforcement combined with raid0 for like 2 years lol. Now they've obviously improved a lot, but when they first introduced the whole TPM stuff, it was as simple as spoofing, raid0, flash & arp change. 0 TPM/SB restrictions lol. Pretty sure it even still works to this day.
As for the latter, that's outside my experience range tbh. I have no clue if that's possible.
Quote:
Originally Posted by SauceMachine
Didn't do everything correct then. There is more to this than it was a few months ago.
There is no ARP query from EAC's side.
Good to know, didn't think so in the first place, but figured it was worth noting.
Quote:
Originally Posted by lort1234
I think it would cause too many false bans if they started banning ARP.
ISP providers usually only rent routers, so the same router is likely to be shared between multiple homes.
I've personally been banned on a completely new setup with nothing being the same, except my router. That was just around the time VGK introduced ARP flags.
Some AC's definitely flag/ban it, but it is fairly simple to bypass. As for the worry regarding ISP routers. I'd imagine it'd be much more accurate to grab the whole table & using that, vice versa just getting the routers mac.
Its worth mentioning if you are using a perm-spoofable drive you still need to Raid 0.
Also found some copium/conspiracy theory
Steam client has a lot of data about your PC, not sure if this can be queried by game devs since the new TPM/Secure boot on store pages for game developers.
Some of the data that steam grabs are
Motherboard manufacturer
Motherboard model
CPU information
OS information
GPU information
MAC address hash
Storage information
When it comes to MAC address hash, it looks like a md5 checksum but the weird part is that I tried permanent spoofing my NIC and it would not update what so ever.
Tried spoofing NIC
Restart PC
Remove steam cache
Revo uninstall steam
Login to account that was never used before
But the MAC hash would not update, does not really affect people who permanent spoof and reinstall pc.
But I would be careful of touching alt accounts even if you are perm spoofing playing games like Rust or even logging into your new account before you factory reset your PC (after spoofing)
GUIDE - Manually perma spoof your HWID 100% Free (Get rid of VAN 152) 05/22/2026 - League of Legends Hacks, Bots, Cheats & Exploits - 46 Replies Hello,
I have been looking around these forums and I have seen many people that have been HWID banned and feel like their only option is fork over money to buy spoofers from a third party. Most people do not know that all of the tools software required to spoof are completely free with a quick google search. The only real requirement is that you have a USB flash drive that is capable of downloading Windows and also flashing BIOS.
Here is a download link with all of the required software...
![[Free Guide] Manually spoofing serials](https://www.elitepvpers.com/forum/iconimages/rust/free-guide-manually-spoofing-serials_ltr.gif){kind=small}
