Go to Sonar → Shortcuts and bind F7 to "Master - Volume Up".
You must press F7 before injecting, or the SteelSeries overlay will not be active and the menu will not draw.
Restart your PC after installing these. If a loader still closes instantly afterwards, work through Loader Crashing Fixes.
Setup, in the order that actually works
Most first-run failures are not the product. They are sequence — a spoofer run after the account was made, an antivirus exclusion added after the download, Secure Boot left on. Doing these steps in the right order removes the large majority of support tickets.
Prepare Windows before you download anything
Cheat loaders are, structurally, exactly what antivirus heuristics are built to catch: unsigned binaries that inject into another process. Every mainstream AV will flag them, and that flag is not evidence of anything.
Add your intended download folder to Windows Defender exclusions before downloading, not after. Defender deletes on download, so a file added to exclusions afterwards has usually already been removed — which is why so many people report a file that "downloaded but isn't there".
Order matters
Create the folder you will download into.
Add that folder to Defender exclusions, plus any third-party AV you run.
Only then download the loader.
Run the loader as Administrator — memory access requires it and it will fail quietly otherwise.
BIOS: Secure Boot, and why it is asked for
Many products require Secure Boot disabled. It is not arbitrary: Secure Boot enforces signature checks on what may load at boot, and unsigned drivers are blocked by it.
Disabling it is done in BIOS or UEFI, usually under Boot or Security, and takes effect on the next restart. Two things to know before you do it. Some titles — Valorant most prominently — refuse to run at all without Secure Boot and TPM, so disabling it locks you out of those games until you turn it back on. And if the drive is BitLocker-encrypted, suspend BitLocker first or you will be asked for a recovery key you may not have.
Hardware bans and spoofer sequence
If you have been hardware-banned, the spoofer must run before the new account exists. The ban attaches to identifiers read from your machine, and a new account created while those identifiers are still the banned ones is linked immediately — often before you finish the tutorial.
The correct sequence
Uninstall the game and clear its remaining data directories.
Run the HWID spoofer and restart if it asks you to.
Create the new game account — new email, and not on the same payment details.
Reinstall the game.
Only now load the cheat, and start conservatively.
First session settings
The settings that get people banned are the ones that look obviously wrong to a spectator. Anti-cheat catches software; other players catch behaviour, and behaviour reports are reviewed by humans against a recording.
Start with visual assistance only — ESP at modest range, no aim assistance at all — and play a full session that way. Add one thing at a time, and keep aim smoothing high and field of view narrow enough that your crosshair never snaps across the screen. Nothing about a build being Undetected protects you from a killcam that looks impossible.
When something still will not run
Check the status page before debugging anything locally. A build that is Updating will fail to load on a perfectly configured machine, and no amount of reinstalling changes that.
If the status is clean, work through the usual four: run as Administrator, confirm exclusions are actually applied, confirm Secure Boot is off, and confirm the game is not running under a different user or through a launcher overlay. If it still fails, support will want the exact error text and your Windows build.
Common questions
Is it safe to disable my antivirus?
Adding a specific folder to exclusions is reasonable and reversible. Disabling protection entirely, on a machine you also bank on, is not — and it is never necessary. Use exclusions.
Do I have to disable Secure Boot for every product?
No — it depends on how the build loads. External products often do not need it. The product page states the requirement; if it is not required, leave Secure Boot on.
Will a spoofer unban my existing account?
No. A spoofer changes what your hardware reports, which lets a new account survive. The banned account stays banned permanently.
How long should I wait after a game update?
Until the status page shows the build back at Undetected. That is not caution for its own sake — the window immediately after a patch is when detections land.
Can I stream while using a cheat?
Some builds offer streamproof rendering that hides overlays from capture software. Treat it as imperfect: it does not hide behaviour, and a viewer report carries the same weight as any other.
