Kicked by Punkbuster

Marky · 17 Mar 2010 at 22:15

Hey all,

I've never had a problem with Punkbuster until now...

I played Battlefield 2 yesterday for about an hour with no problems whatsoever...

Today I loaded it up - I've been kicked off three servers for "Disallowed Programs/Drivers" :confused:

Any ideas?

Marky

uv · 17 Mar 2010 at 22:18

Are you running any Disallowed Programs/Drivers?

Marky · 17 Mar 2010 at 22:21

uv said:
Are you running any Disallowed Programs/Drivers?

Haha I know it would seem like the simplest answer

But no I don't think so

I'm not cheating that's for sure - I haven't done anything different since yesterday...

bledd · 17 Mar 2010 at 22:26

What graphics card drivers are you running?

Google that version + punkbuster

Marky · 17 Mar 2010 at 22:30

ATI Catalyst 9.2 - I'll try upgrading - I've not upgraded in a while

gizmoy2k · 17 Mar 2010 at 22:36

Marky said:
I've not upgraded in a YEAR !!!

Fixed !

Possibly your problem also

Marky · 17 Mar 2010 at 22:51

Ok I've updated the drivers - I got kicked almost immediately when I tried a server

gizmoy2k · 17 Mar 2010 at 22:54

Try a manual PB update from here

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=dl-bc2.php

Download the PBsetup.exe files and see if it updates

~>Dg<~ · 17 Mar 2010 at 22:59

also make sure your not running any overlay progs as that normally causes your kick. i know in cods it was a similar kick for fraps but i have that runnig all time . see what progs you have runnig if updating pb doesnt help

Legionaire68 · 17 Mar 2010 at 23:12

If you are playing on Vista you need to run it as administrator and sometimes update pb manually as the other guy said.

Marky · 17 Mar 2010 at 23:25

Okay I've tried updating manually - I've checked programs, nothing dodgy...
I'm on Windows 7 - running latest Windows 7 ATI Drivers.

Still getting the same kick message - however now it shows a number after the message [125083]

Doing some googling on it now...

Marky · 18 Mar 2010 at 01:17

The record I managed to stop the problem by turning off "Steam Community In-Game" in the Steam settings =\

Bit of an annoyance that I have to turn it off everytime I play Battlefield 2

uv · 18 Mar 2010 at 08:16

Marky said:
The record I managed to stop the problem by turning off "Steam Community In-Game" in the Steam settings =\

Bit of an annoyance that I have to turn it off everytime I play Battlefield 2

I'm assuming it's not the Steam version then?
I've played a few games that PunkBuster kicks for the Steam overlay, like Soldat. Very annoying - especially as the Steam overlay works fine in the Steam version of BC2!