Cheat Engine

Tideo · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject: Whats a hardware bann

explain plz..

FullyAwesome · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:45 pm Post subject:

i'm guessing it's a ban against using a certain piece of hardware which must give you more of an advantage than others?

Labyrnth · Moderator Reputation: 10 Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 6301

That is a ban of the mac address of your network adapter.
The only way to really get by this is to change the net card.
Good luck on that with xbox live Smile

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SupehKitteh · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 14

its also like a hardware id ban..as in they get your computers specific id and block it kindof...less technical explanation ^^

atom0s · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:47 pm Post subject:

It can be more then just your mac address. Every piece of hardware in your system has a hard coded serial on it that is obtainable via API. Some games are designed to incorperate these API in them to pull system information to be used while banning cheaters. The common elements I have seen banned with were:

- Mac address
- Nic
- Harddrive
- Motherboard

Of course, this can be bypassed by hooking the API and you can change the mac address of your nic.

Dark Byte · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:50 pm Post subject:

actually, there is a registry edit you can do to make your network card's mac address different. (Doesn't work on all cards, but most support it)
It's a good way to change your ip if your dhcp server assigns it according to MAC (have to look it up but I myself use it since my isp locked my modem to my laptop's MAC)

atom0s · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject:

Labyrnth · Moderator Reputation: 10 Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 6301

Yeah, i have done that before and it didnt work lol.
You know what woudl be a bitch is if GameGuard started doing this crap, i mean it already reads too much information about the users pc as it is.