wtf wrong with punkbuster tonight

[Damien aka HELLFIYA]

people on server keep getting kicked from punkbuster almost everyone do we need to update or somethin?

[lamah]

yes, update your pb to 1.732

[Damien aka HELLFIYA]

thx mane

[vortex19103]

from where and how link master

[FozzyBear]

Try here first

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php

If that doesn't work, just look through PB's site. I'm sure the answer is in there somewhere :D
http://www.evenbalance.com/ (http://www.evenbalance.com/i)

[antigen]

At least you don't crash to desktop whenever BF2 feels like it.. plus it's been freezing my whole system lately too.

So much for coming back to play.....

[Buckski]

I thought it was something with my system--took it apart and rebuilt it back together. My system would just freeze in game.

[kippendrecht]

ur jk right? bucksi? lawl

[Buckski]

I wish I was--it really was just a bad fan port on mobo not punkbuster

[Tykwer]

the same thing that is wrong with punkbuster every night, pinky.

[antigen]

You know.. come to think of it..

my system has only started freezing in game since the latest punk buster update.. when they added the punkbstra.exe to your system processes..

I've been playing BF2 since it came out, and have never had my system hard freeze in the middle of playing until recently. hrrrrmmmm....

[lamah]

some ppl are reporting a pnkbustab.exe also

i havent' seen that, but then again, i haven't alt-tab during gaming to see it in task manager.....

i haven't gotten any freeze in game, but everytime i boot up bf2, the first time i try to connect to a server it says something like it cannot connect......but a 2nd try and it connects

looks like they did another update yesterday, version is up to 1.735 now

[EANeuspeed]

*xSnI(+)PeRx*;227016']hey guys just got back into playing again and about 15 mins playing on the inf. server i was kicked (punkbuster kicked "me" due to corrupted file/memory (81159)

was this mean anyone know...i have the no cd/dvd fix installed as well

any help would be nice!

You need to updated your PB manually. It the self uninstall and then reinstall program. Try that see if it works. Got to PB website to DL it. If you cant find it. I'll get you a linky

[sandman21pre]

Does punkbuster leave files on your desktop? When I do the manually update, it leaves 6 files there. Can I delete them? Thanks

[EANeuspeed]

Does punkbuster leave files on your desktop? When I do the manually update, it leaves 6 files there. Can I delete them? Thanks

It doesn't leave files on your desktop. I wouldnt delete them.

[FozzyBear]

You need to run the update from inside the folder where the game is.

Not from the desktop. Those files are the update.

The instructions should have it in there.


(at least that was how it was last time I had to do a manual PB update)

[SnaKe]

some ppl are reporting a pnkbustab.exe also

i havent' seen that, but then again, i haven't alt-tab during gaming to see it in task manager.....

i haven't gotten any freeze in game, but everytime i boot up bf2, the first time i try to connect to a server it says something like it cannot connect......but a 2nd try and it connects

looks like they did another update yesterday, version is up to 1.735 now

Drayu is having this same problem!! He's been trying to figure out why.

[redish16]

First go here

http://www.punkbuster.com/

then click on BF2

Click on software updates download

Click to install PBsetup, for windows it is pbsetup.exe

choose a game to update and it will do the rest.

Edited to add, whenever there is aan update and you don't want to let it autoupdate, just click on this updater and it will do it for you.

[Drayu]

I thought it was something with my system--took it apart and rebuilt it back together. My system would just freeze in game.

That is a big ditto from me. Thought it was an install gone bad or a bad driver or clogged fans. Took the whole thing apart and cleaned it all and then reinstalled it, still the same prob. I have even updated PB.

[Drayu]

also, I keep getting pnkbstrb.exe trying to access the internet. my zonelabs keeps telling me that it want to, so I let it.....but I have no idea what it is. :(

[lamah]

here are a couple of posts of ppl trying to figure out pb

new version = system resource hog?
http://www.imaclan.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=11204

updating to new version
http://www.imaclan.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=11244

the new version is suppose to go around the admin privilege issue

[Drayu]

can't see the posts without registering, :(

[EANeuspeed]

also, I keep getting pnkbstrb.exe trying to access the internet. my zonelabs keeps telling me that it want to, so I let it.....but I have no idea what it is. :(

After you manually uninstall and reinstall PB, allow your firewall for PB to have access to the internet.

[Drayu]

yeah, I have given it access over and over again.

[sandman21pre]

You need to run the update from inside the folder where the game is.

Not from the desktop. Those files are the update.

The instructions should have it in there.


(at least that was how it was last time I had to do a manual PB update)

It does not say to run it from BF2 folder, but I will try that. Thanks

[Drayu]

it says to put it in its own folder so that the files it creates don't get deleted. I put mine right into the BF2 PB folder, seemed appropriate.

[sandman21pre]

Yeah I did that, so far no improvement.

[antigen]

I stopped the pnkbstra.exe process and played bf2 with no problems the other night... fyi..

[Drayu]

Well it seems that the EA message that comes up when you log in is now back for me, and since then I have had no problems connecting. I think this was a combo punkbuster gamespy issue.