**** punkbuster..

[porkchop]

i hope who ever invented this ****ing piece of worthless **** gets sodomized in the ass by a convict







now that thats out of the way, has anyone ever encountered a situation where ****ing punkbuster doesnt allow you to spawn in dc? it just says please choose an insertion point, blah blah balh. i choose one, and i click on done, and it stays there, and it wouldn tlet me ****ing spawn....



help?



**** punkbuster

[JawZ]

How do you know it's a PB issue? It sounds like your install of DC is fubar.

Have you tried to manually update PB via PBWEB.exe?

[Mark]

i have yet to have an issue with punkbuster in the 2 years i have played BF'42, DC and whatnot, maybe i am just lucky

maybe you are playing on a crappy server ?

[porkchop]

How do you know it's a PB issue? It sounds like your install of DC is fubar.

Have you tried to manually update PB via PBWEB.exe?

tried reinstalling already...

and yes, done the pbweb.exe several times.

i have yet to have an issue with punkbuster in the 2 years i have played BF'42, DC and whatnot, maybe i am just lucky

maybe you are playing on a crappy server ?

this has happened on multiple servers.... and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt....

this only started happening like a few days ago... dunno why.....

[YARDofSTUF]

DC glitch as far as i know, quit and rejoin, problem is usually solved then.


On a side note PB is a pain but its better than nothing. I got kicked for TKing today, first PB kick, but I wasnt TKing! lol

[porkchop]

DC glitch as far as i know, quit and rejoin, problem is usually solved then.


On a side note PB is a pain but its better than nothing. I got kicked for TKing today, first PB kick, but I wasnt TKing! lol

well i guess it is something... but pb take sup a lot of resources, and there are tons of hacks out there that are pb-proof..... oh welll

[YARDofSTUF]

well i guess it is something... but pb take sup a lot of resources, and there are tons of hacks out there that are pb-proof..... oh welll

like what resources? run it without PB on and then run it on a PB server, u wont notice a difference.

[JawZ]

like what resources? run it without PB on and then run it on a PB server, u wont notice a difference.

Uhhhh....PB is a memory nightmare dude. It affects everything....that is why ATI had to release a fix for their CAT 4.12beta drivers.
http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4701.html




Porkchop....look at my thread here for more PB ideas:
http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=160390


Also, if you have an ATI card....maybe you need the newest drivers or maybe even try using older drivers.

Also, take a look at this:

PB_System [0/1]
PB can conflict with other software on some systems due to vigorous memory scanning; Changing this setting may reduce or eliminate conflicts if you have problems on your system; this setting can only be changed before connecting to a server by editing the pbsys.cfg file in your PB folder. This file is created the first time you run PB.

Console command of course but it may work for you.


My computer locks up or "chugs" sometimes while I'm playing with PunkBuster Enabled, what can cause this?

PunkBuster "pushes" hardware and the Windows Operating System more than most software and uses functions in the Windows API (low level functions) that aren't used by most other programs. As such, there are a few cases where using PB can actually expose flaky hardware or other situations that don't cause problems for other software. Here are a few things that have helped other users make these problems get better or go away completely:

* Make sure you are using the latest version of PunkBuster (the latest version is always on our Download page) - also this link may help manually update your PB to the latest version when necessary
* From the game's main screen, press the tilde key (the ~ key) to bring down the console and enter the following line (without the quotes): "pb_system 0".
* Never close other programs from your Windows Task Manager before playing the game, either leave them running or close them through the proper interface - killing a process doesn't always work completely even if it stops showing in the Task Manager and renegade threads seem to conflict with PB more than other programs that may be running in memory. There is a free utility that some players use called EndItAll to close all extra programs before they play to avoid software conflicts, crashes and lockups. You can get it from here.
* Check the add/remove programs list in your Control Panel and uninstall any programs that you don't use or that you don't know what they are.
* One program that seems to conflict with PB more than others is Norton Anti-Virus. If you have it installed, try uninstalling it to see if the lockups go away. Some players have reported that when this is the culprit, they can reinstall Norton Anti-Virus and the lockups don't come back.
* Other background programs that seem to conflict with PB for some users are Sound Blaster Live software and helper programs that come with video cards (especially ATI keyboard shortcut programs).
* Some players discovered that they had a computer virus and that the lockups vanished after it was fully removed.
* Some Zone Alarm users report that giving Battlefield 'trusted server' access in the Zone Alarm 'program' configuration fixes these problems
* Experiment with the pb_sleep setting ... try setting it to 20, 250, or 500 to see if that affects your game performance. A few players have reported that all the problems go away when they "tweak" this setting.
* In extreme cases, a few users have reported that replacing their RAM (memory) or video/sound cards fixed the problem.

[porkchop]

* Other background programs that seem to conflict with PB for some users are Sound Blaster Live software and helper programs that come with video cards (especially ATI keyboard shortcut programs).

hm... i got both of these... maybe thats the problem...

[YARDofSTUF]

Well I dont have an ATI card and i disabled the nvidia help support. but I dont see a difference memory-wise when I run PB or when I dont.