How-to
Safe Launch Checklist: What To Prepare, What To Disable, What Never To Do
Most lost accounts are not lost to a detection. They are lost to an overlay nobody disabled, a spoofer nobody applied and a clip somebody uploaded. That part is fixable by discipline, not by money.
This checklist does not make cheating safe. It removes the failures that have nothing to do with the quality of the software but produce the same outcome. Ban risk is permanent; avoidable losses are not.
System preparation
- A separate system, or at least a separate profile. Ideally a second drive with a clean Windows install and almost nothing on it. Realistically, a user profile without a dozen startup entries.
- Remove traces of previous software. Old loader folders, extracted archives, startup shortcuts, leftovers in Downloads. Keeping them “just in case” buys you nothing.
- Check your Windows version. Builds support specific versions and sometimes specific patch levels. A routine Windows update can push you outside the supported range — and updates are automatic by default.
- Settle Secure Boot and TPM before buying. Vanguard and FACEIT titles require both, and some builds require the opposite. Discover that conflict before payment, not after.
- Never keep loaders in cloud-synced folders. OneDrive and friends replicate the file outside your machine and hand it to cloud scanners on the way.
What conflicts and what to disable
| Software | The problem |
|---|---|
| Discord overlay | injects into the game, conflicts with cheat overlays |
| Steam / GeForce Experience / AMD overlays | same, plus their own capture pipelines |
| MSI Afterburner, RTSS | hook the graphics pipeline; often blocked outright under Vanguard |
| OBS and other recorders | capture the screen — see streamproof |
| Remote access tools | run in the background and are trivially enumerated |
| Virtual machines and sandboxes | explicitly disallowed by several anti-cheats |
Note that the issue is overlays and capture, not the applications themselves. Discord is fine once its game overlay is off.
Launch order
There is no universal sequence; the provider defines it. The general frame looks like this:
- Clean reboot if you use a session-based spoofer — otherwise it will not apply.
- Spoofer, if one is part of your setup.
- Check the build status with the provider: undetected, updating or detected. Anything other than undetected means today is not the day.
- Loader and game, in the order the instructions specify.
- First run on an account you can afford to lose, ideally in a low-risk mode.
On step three: a status is a claim, not a warranty. It says “we see no confirmed detection right now”, not “you cannot be banned”.
Seven things never to do
- Do not stream or record without verified streamproof. Your own clip is the most common answer to “how did they know?”. Verify with a local recording of your own, not with a line in the product description.
- Do not test on your main account. In games where the account itself costs money — Escape from Tarkov above all — this mistake is the most expensive one on the list.
- Do not play rage settings in populated lobbies if longevity is the goal. The distinction is covered in ESP and aimbot explained.
- Do not answer accusations in chat. Every reply converts a suspicion into a report that would not otherwise have been filed, and reports trigger manual review.
- Do not share screenshots, configs or clips in public chats and forums. A screenshot of a cheat menu in an open Discord lives forever.
- Do not launch after a game patch until the provider confirms compatibility.
- Do not download “free versions” and cracks. It is the most reliable way to collect a ban and a miner in the same afternoon.
When something goes wrong
If the game crashes on load, do not keep retrying — each attempt is logged, and the cause is usually mundane: the game updated, the anti-cheat updated, an overlay is conflicting, or the spoofer never applied. Check those four, then contact support with your game version, Windows build and what you already tested. That ticket gets solved in an hour; “doesn’t work, help” takes a day.
Next: why cheats get detected and what to do if the ban lands anyway.