What shared DMA firmware means

What shared means

Your firmware makes your card pretend to be a real PCIe device, like a network or sound card. Shared means other people run firmware that pretends to be the same device as yours. Our devices are made only for MewDMA, so the others on yours are our customers. After some months a device can leak and turn up elsewhere. MiTM isn't shared at all. Every MiTM user has their own device.

Sharing a device doesn't mean you share another user's card or serials, so another user's ban doesn't get your card banned.

• Your serials are yours.
  Serials are the ID numbers a device reports about itself. They're easy to change, so none of our firmware gives the same ones to more than one customer.
• Their hardware ban stays with them.
  A hardware ban is a ban on the machine as well as the account, and it's aimed at the PC that got caught. Your card has different serials, so it doesn't look like their hardware.
• What you share is the device.
  Everyone on it shows up as the same kind of device, and that's the part an anti-cheat can learn to recognize. Once it does, it can catch that device on every card that shows it. How anti-cheats look at the card goes through it.

Why fewer people on a device is better

Anti-cheats don't publish how they pick which devices to look at, so this is our best understanding.

The more people on a device, the more of them will play blatant, get reported and get banned. If a lot of banned players had the same device, that device is worth a closer look, and once it's looked at, it can be checked for on everyone. Fewer people means fewer bans to find it by, so the people playing legit are what keep a device clean for everyone else on it.

Higher tiers also get more emulation work and more time spent on them, and because they cost more, the people on them are mostly legit players who won't get the device flagged by raging.

How many people are on each build

• Premium T1, T2 and T3.
  Up to 50, 25 and 5 people on a device. Firmware tiers says who should pick which.
• Advanced and Private.
  No slot limit. Private is the name of our Vanguard build, and it's shared like Advanced. Both rotate when it's needed: when a device gets too many people, or when it's blocked or detected.
• MiTM.
  Just you. Every MiTM user has their own device, and MiTM slots are just how many people we take in.

Once a device is full, or is blocked or detected, new buyers go onto a new one. If it's only full, you keep yours and never re-flash for it. If yours was blocked or detected, in warranty you re-flash onto the new device. Out of warranty you don't get the new device, but you get 40% of what you paid off your next firmware.

Fewer people is not a guarantee

Our firmware is undetected, but any build can be detected at any moment, even the ones with the fewest people. Checks aimed at DMA cards in general don't care how many people are on your device. Blatant play gets caught whatever hardware it comes from.

If we confirm and announce that your device is blocked or detected while you're in warranty, open a ticket and we'll move you to a new device. Firmware warranty and upgrades shows how to claim.

Why your build only works on your card

Every Xilinx 7-series FPGA, the chip on our cards, has a DNA ID. It's a number burned into the chip at the factory, and it can't be changed. We build your firmware for your card's DNA ID, so the file only runs on your card.

• It keeps slot counts honest.
  If a file could be copied onto other cards and passed around, a device meant for 5 people could quietly end up on 50.
• You send it once per card.
  After you pay, you upload your card's DNA ID, its model and an msinfo32 report on your order page. Your DNA ID and msinfo32 report shows how to find them.
• MiTM works differently.
  It's locked to your second computer's hardware ID, not to your card.