Hardware bans in BO7 and Warzone

A ban in Black Ops 7 or Warzone lands in one of two places. It lands on the account, or it lands on the machine.

An account ban is the simple version. The account is closed and you cannot play on it. Nothing else on your PC is touched. Make a fresh account and the game lets you in as normal. That is the cheap outcome, because a new login is the whole fix.

A hardware ban goes deeper. The anti-cheat records identifiers that belong to your PC rather than your login. New account, same PC, same result. Those identifiers are firmware values that sit under Windows, which is where a kernel level anti-cheat like Ricochet can read them. Reinstalling Windows does not change them, because they were never stored in Windows to begin with.

How to tell which one you have. Test it once, do not guess. Make a brand new account on the same PC. Use a different email and different login details. Reuse nothing from the banned account. Then try to play a match. Do not spend money before you have that answer, because the two bans need different fixes.

If the new account plays normally, you had an account ban. Carry on with that account and change what you were doing. If the new account is closed quickly, or you cannot get into a match at all, the flag is on your machine. That is a hardware ban, and stacking up more accounts will not fix it.

One warning about that test. Each repeat burns another account on a machine that is already flagged. Run it once, read the answer, and stop.

1. Confirm the flag is on the machine. Use the clean account test above, once. If a brand new account also gets closed, you are dealing with hardware and not with a login.
2. Be clear on what you are buying. A spoofer does not unban the old account and does not remove the ban record. It gives a clean account a clean machine. Nothing more than that.
3. Check your motherboard brand before you spend anything. Verse covers ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte and ASRock boards. Lenovo, Acer and Dell prebuilts are not covered right now. Any other brand, ask support first instead of guessing.
4. Get the spoofer that reaches firmware. That is Verse. It sells in limited batches and is often out of stock, so switch on the restock alert on the product page rather than waiting and refreshing.
5. Prepare Windows before you run it. Turn off Memory Integrity under Core Isolation. Disable Windows Defender. Arctic's setup guide walks through every toggle, so follow it rather than hunting for the settings yourself.
6. Spoof, then reboot fully. Verse writes at firmware level, so the game only reads the new values after a real restart. Do not use sleep. Do not rely on fast startup.
7. Start clean on the game side. New account, new email, new login details. Do not sign back into the banned account on the spoofed machine, because that hands the link straight back.
8. Read the board before you inject anything. Arctic publishes live product status at /status. Check it rather than asking anyone whether something is fine today.
9. Play in a way that does not rebuild the flag. Set aim smoothing to 5 or higher, so the aim moves like a hand instead of snapping like a machine. Turn on a visibility check, so the aimbot leaves enemies behind walls alone and your killcams stay clean. ESP only, with no aim assistance, is the lowest risk setup there is. Level a new account before you turn aim features on, because a brand new account posting pro numbers draws far more attention than an aged one.

If any step does not match your setup, ask support before you run anything. A wrong guess here costs you another account and another machine.

Verse is the one that applies to this game. Ricochet reads firmware identifiers, so the fix has to reach firmware as well.

Trace 2.0 does not cover Ricochet. That is a flat no, not a maybe. Trace 2.0 is session based by design, and it writes nothing to firmware, so a reboot returns your real hardware. It spoofs drives, RAM, monitors, network adapters, GPU and motherboard identifiers, and it covers Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye titles. Its seed system lets you keep the same fake identity across sessions, which matters because an anti-cheat that sees a new PC every day is more suspicious than one that sees the same PC every day. On those titles it is the best value option and the safe first purchase if you have never spoofed before. For Call of Duty it is simply the wrong tool.

Verse is permanent and firmware level, and works below Windows. It rewrites SMBIOS, UEFI variables, the TPM identity, EFUSE MAC and more. Its SMBIOS fixer picks from over 1,250 real motherboard profiles, so the spoofed board is one that actually exists rather than a random string a kernel anti-cheat can flag. You spoof once and the identity survives every restart. It covers Vanguard and Ricochet on top of Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye.

Both sit on the HWID spoofers page if you want them side by side.