PC Audit
Snapshots your PC's Rust-relevant settings into one anonymized file. Load that file below and this page reviews it.
What it does, and never does
Read-only
Changes nothing: no settings touched, nothing installed, no network calls. It writes one report file next to itself and exits.
Exactly what it writes
Anonymized
Account names Windows embeds in paths are swapped for placeholders before the file is written.
Never your account name, computer name, serial numbers,
IP or MAC addresses. The only settings file it reads in full is your
client.cfg.
What it contains, and never does
What is in the file
- CPU, memory, motherboard and BIOS version
- Display modes and refresh-rate history
- Power settings
- Game DVR and capture state
- GPU and NIC driver versions
- Running processes and their CPU time
- Programs, services, startup items, logon tasks
- Antivirus product and scheduled-scan time — scan times only; exclusions are counted, never listed
- Crash and hardware-error event excerpts
- Short excerpts of Rust's own logs and the anti-cheat's — only lines that look like errors, with addresses replaced
- Storage layout and free space
- Steam library paths and your Rust launch options
- Overlay and tuning-tool settings (Discord, Afterburner, RTSS, Process Lasso rules)
- Your
client.cfg
That is the shape of it, not the whole list. The report names every section it wrote, so open the file and read the section names for the rest.
What it never contains
- Account names
- Computer name
- Serial numbers
- IP or MAC addresses
- Anything about your browsing
- Documents, pictures, or personal files of any kind
The scrubber runs over every section before the file is written.
Readable
Plain PowerShell you can open in Notepad. No installer, no encoded commands, nothing fetched at runtime.
Verify the download (SHA-256)
SHA-256 checksum of collect.ps1, 64 hexadecimal characters, grouped in eights:
970F85AEF6A78E5011FC8DD69E4598C3B8F6213E03B3752B0DB3E64AD7110EB1
SHA-256 checksum of PC-Audit-RUN-AS-ADMIN.bat, 64 hexadecimal characters, grouped in eights:
F431F357C193F426D67FA48408187F9DFD8CF58D45242BC98922C09C3B53B8DD
Run
in the folder you downloaded to, and the same for the .bat. The strings
should match character for character. The .bat is a plain-text launcher:
it checks both files are together, tests for administrator rights, and
runs collect.ps1.
Run it
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Both files in one folder
Put both in the same folder; Downloads is fine.
If the browser blocks it
Windows warns about every .bat and .ps1, sight unseen; neither warning is a detection. Chrome and Edge: the three-dot menu on the download, then Keep. If SmartScreen appears when you run it: More info, then Run anyway. Or read the script first. -
Run it as administrator
Right-click
PC-Audit-RUN-AS-ADMIN.batand choose Run as administrator. A minute or two: the window can sit still while Windows' own tools run, then you getpcaudit-<timestamp>.jsonin the same folder.No administrator rights?
It runs anyway: it names the sections it could not read and carries on. Most of the report still arrives. -
Read it right here
Load
pcaudit-<timestamp>.jsoninto the review below for a ranked, machine-specific list of what to change.Still stuck after the review?
Post the JSON in the community Discord this site was linked from and ask a person.
Review your audit
Load the file the collector wrote. Findings are sorted into five groups — wrong, should change, could change, leave alone, could not check — with the evidence quoted from your own file.
Or paste the file contents
No file loaded.