A hardware ban is issued by the anti-cheat a game ships with, not by the game itself, and each engine reads its own set of identifiers before it decides what to block. Enforcement stays with the publisher that handed the ban down, so the useful question is which system recorded your machine in the first place.

If you would rather see the engines side by side before picking one, the anti-cheat index lists all 12 with developer and coverage, and Anti-Cheat Comparison: EAC vs BattlEye walks through where their detection methods genuinely differ.

Games occasionally switch anti-cheat providers — Fortnite moved from BattlEye to EasyAntiCheat, several EA titles migrated to EA AntiCheat, and Riot rolled out Vanguard to League of Legends in 2024. TraceX rewrites every identifier all major anti-cheats track, so when a game changes its protection, the same one-time run still covers it.

All 58 games are covered by the same free download — no per-game licenses, no tier-locked games, no paywall. Submit your email at Download TraceX and follow the guide. Not sure whether your ban is hardware-level? Confirm the ban type first — the answer decides whether a hardware rewrite is the right fix at all.