Windows7 punkbuster

Tom|Nbk said:
Yup, there is a tweak which sorted out Punkbuster for BF2 for me in Win 7, not tried out COD4 or any other PB game yet. I mainly play Source games
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Ooh, you got BF2 to work with above tweak or some other clever trickery pokery? One of the main reasons I uninstalled an earlier release of W7 was due to PB incompatibility at the time. Care to share?

If there is a work around I will jump straight back into W7! :D
 
Download & use the updater and the service updater. Haven't done any more that that (7077 x64) but mind you, UAC is off.
BF2 works perfectly, and thats all I'm worried about.

-Leezer-
 
-=Vect0r=- said:
Ooh, you got BF2 to work with above tweak or some other clever trickery pokery? One of the main reasons I uninstalled an earlier release of W7 was due to PB incompatibility at the time. Care to share?

If there is a work around I will jump straight back into W7! :D
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Yep I did, this tweak did not work on bulid 7068 but as soon as I upgraded to 7100 it worked great and PB didn't kick me out of BF2 and I was on for at least half an hour, PB normally kicked within a few minutes beforehand

http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/2009/01/14/windows-7-punkbuster-fix.aspx

I'm going to play some PR later for an extended time I'll let you know how I get on, but with 7068 I couldn't play BF2 for more than 3 miutes without PB kicking me.
 
Hey guys,

Tried the above solution (quoted by coolasmoo), but it didn't work for more than three minutes, so I tried "troubleshooting compatibility" on the off chance that it might help, it suggested I use XP compatibility, so I did. I didn't run the bat file, and it worked for 45-80 minutes in a server online. =)

Jeeva

Edit: That's not to say it stopped working, I just have to go out.
 
I've got PB working perfectly in BF2 at least on Build 7100. I ran the service installer from the Punkbuster website followed by the updater. Then I found the two exe files in windows/syswow64/ and critically had to edit the security preferences to give me (user/xxx) full control. Only once I had done that would PB no kick me in game for lack of rights.
 
Simply put, PunkBuster is the worst anti-cheat software, EVER - period. Always has been, always will be.. I still can't comprehend or see why game devs/studios go for PunkBuster, it is absolutely dire and has never stopped cheaters playing at all.. It just causes crashes, errors, etc.. I always get RAM Memory Errors with it when I was on Vista x64, not played a game since I installed Win7 with it though..
 
Thank you Sparx for resurrecting a two week old thread for the sole purpose of having a pop at PB. The OP was specifcally looking for a way to get them working and you haven't even run the two together so you are completely unable to constructively contribute to this thread :rolleyes:
 
Just noticed something....

Just reinstalled Punkbuster - whilst running the 'Test Services' bit it says:

Checking firewall settings
Is PnkBstrA explicitly allowed?
C:\Windows\system32\PnkBstrA.exe NO
Is PnkBstrB explicitly allowed?
C:\Windows\system32\PnkBstrB.exe NO

When i looked at the Firewall, there were Punkbuster entries - So i looked in C:\Windows\system32\ and neither were there files were there!
Looking at the services, both were pointing at C:\Windows\system32\
In Processes, they are both pointing at C:\Windows\SysWOW64

Could that have something to do with why its not working in W7?
 
It should work now with build 7100. I have been playing COD4 all week, a few servers have kicked me but they probably need a pb update.
 
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