How to Set Up the HWID Spoofer
Setting up Raw Spoofer is one of the simplest installs in our product line — the entire process is one click and a reboot. The whole thing takes about 5-10 minutes including the reboot wait.
What you need
- Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC
- Administrator access
- About 5 minutes plus reboot time
- Knowledge of which game you want to spoof for (so you can verify the right vectors are cleaned)
Step 1: Buy Raw Spoofer
Visit the Raw Spoofer product page and choose your tier:
- Single use ($9.99) — One spoof, no future updates. Good for one-time post-ban recovery.
- Monthly ($39.99) — Unlimited spoofs for 30 days. Good for active cheaters who run the spoofer between accounts.
Crypto payment gets 10% off via BTCPay.
Step 2: Download the spoofer
Download from your order email or download portal. Single .exe file about 3-4 MB.
Step 3: Close all anti-cheat games
Before running the spoofer, completely close every game with active anti-cheat. This means Fortnite, Rust, Apex Legends, Valorant, Overwatch, Marvel Rivals, Call of Duty, Tarkov, R6 Siege, and any other competitive game. The spoofer needs the anti-cheats to not be running during the spoof process.
You don't need to close non-anti-cheat games like singleplayer Steam titles. Browser, Discord, and other normal applications stay open.
Step 4: Run the spoofer as administrator
Right-click the spoofer executable and select Run as Administrator. Click Yes on the UAC prompt. The spoofer interface opens with a single big "Spoof" button. Enter your license key when prompted.
Step 5: Click Spoof and wait
Click the Spoof button. The spoofer cleans every hardware fingerprint vector in a single pass:
- BIOS serial number — Rewritten in memory before any anti-cheat queries it
- MAC addresses — Rotated on every network adapter (Ethernet, WiFi, virtual)
- Disk serial numbers — Spoofed at the driver level for SSDs and HDDs
- Registry hardware GUIDs — Cleared and regenerated
- GPU UUIDs and PCI device IDs — Reassigned (NVIDIA and AMD both supported)
- TPM module identifier — Cleaned (critical for Vanguard support)
- Audio device fingerprints — Cleaned
- USB controller IDs — Cleaned
The whole process takes about 30-60 seconds. Don't close the spoofer during this time. You'll see a progress indicator.
Step 6: Reboot your computer
When the spoofer prompts you, reboot your computer. The spoofed values get applied at boot, which is why the reboot is required. Don't skip this step — without the reboot, half the vectors won't be active and the anti-cheats will see a mix of real and spoofed values (which is more detectable than no spoof at all).
The spoof persists across reboots until you run the spoofer again. You don't need to re-run after every reboot — just once whenever you want to refresh the fingerprint.
Step 7: Verify the spoof worked
After your reboot, run the spoofer one more time and look at the verification panel. It shows your old fingerprint values (what they were before the spoof) and your new spoofed values (what they are now). Confirm every vector was successfully cleaned. If any vector still shows the old value, run the spoof again — sometimes the first attempt misses one vector during the registry rewrite.
Step 8: Create a new account and play
Now you can create a new account for the game you want to play:
- Fortnite — New Epic Games account
- Rust / Apex Legends / Arc Raiders — New Steam account (or new EA account for Apex)
- Overwatch / Valorant — New Battle.net or Riot account
- Marvel Rivals — New Marvel Rivals account
- Call of Duty — New Activision account
Log into the new account on your now-spoofed machine. The anti-cheat treats your computer as brand-new with no ban history. Most customers recover access on the first attempt.
Important notes
Don't reuse banned accounts. Even after spoofing, your old banned accounts are still banned at the account level. You need a new account AND a clean hardware fingerprint.
Run the spoofer between alts. If you cheat on multiple accounts, run the spoofer between them so the anti-cheat doesn't link them all to the same fingerprint.
The spoof doesn't break other games. Your normal Steam library, Origin launcher, Battle.net, and any non-anti-cheat games continue working normally. The spoofing is contained to the values that anti-cheats query.
Windows security stays enabled. The spoofer doesn't require disabling Windows Defender, Secure Boot, BitLocker, or any other security feature. Your machine's security stays intact.
Troubleshooting
Spoofer fails to start — Run as administrator. Add a Defender exception for the spoofer's folder.
Spoof completes but verification shows old values — Run the spoof again. Sometimes the first run misses one vector and the second run cleans it.
Anti-cheat still bans my new account — This usually means the account-level ban, not the hardware ban. Make sure you created a fresh account with no connection to your previous banned accounts (different email, different payment method, different Steam profile).
Reboot causes Windows update to install — Wait for the update to finish and then verify the spoof again. Major Windows updates can sometimes reset hardware identifiers, which means you'd need to re-spoof.
For more on hardware bans and spoofer use, check our HWID Spoofer hub page or read the HWID Spoofer Guide blog post for a deeper conceptual explanation.
