Punkbuster wtf ?!?

[Wij]

I bought Cod4 for a tenner off Steam recently. Blasted through the SP (shortest game ever ?), tried the multiplayer, won't work. Punkbuster kicks me every time. Tried downloading PBSetup.exe. Ran it. No difference. No Punkbuster exes ever start. If I run the seyup prog from desktop it appears to work but nothing ever happens as a result of it. Googled and tried running it from my PB folder in CoD4 in Steam. No option to select which game I want to update. Just a blank list.

This is fucking annoying. I shouldn't have to piss around like this to play a game I fucking paid for

I never had this promblem with WaW on Steam back on my XP installation. It just worked. Never had to do anything.

 

[Rulke]

This any help?
PunkBuster Online Countermeasures

 

[psyc1one]

can you add CoD4 manually via the "add a game" button in pbsetup?

 

[Wij]

Yes - makes no difference.

The manual doesn't help either.

 

[Mabs]

you said "back on xp" - you on 7 ? tried running it Admin ?

and made sure you havent got an old version clogging it up ? try to uninstall it

 

[Wij]

Yes, yes, yes and yes

Actually, since I re-installed PB services manually just now I get a different error. After 5 mins I get:

Disallowed Program/Driver (125120)

iirc

Googling...

*sigh*

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Unload your hax and it'll be fine. Duh.

 

[MYstIC G]

disallowed Program / Driver [125120] - X-ray Gaming

Disallowed Program/Driver [125120 / 125129] - PBBans

lol if it is the Steam overlay

 

[Wij]

It is.

Googled. Disabled Steam Overlay. Re-started game. Worked fine.

Punkbuster == Epic Fail

 

[throdgrain]

I got this too today! Please explain, I'm stupid.

 

[MYstIC G]

Steam puts an overlay on the games. Punkbuster checks for generic overlays as they can be used by cheat programs. Punkbuster is too stupid to understand the Steam overlay is not a cheat program so it bounces you out.

 

[throdgrain]

How can I fix that?

 

[MYstIC G]

Steam -> Settings -> In Game -> Enable Steam Community In-game (untick)

 

[throdgrain]

Thanks mate

 

[Wazzerphuk]

More like Steam are so stupid they implement stuff they know causes issues. It's not punkbuster's fault Steam is such horrible bloated shite it has pointless overlays.

 

[throdgrain]

We have a bit of a CSS crisis at the moment, and I've installed every game I can think of to see if I can play something else for a bit.

Out of them all, CoD4 and BC2 are my favourites. Aside from the nade spam , I like CoD4 MP much more than MW2.

And CoH of course, but thats a different sort of game.

 

[nath]

More like Steam are so stupid they implement stuff they know causes issues. It's not punkbuster's fault Steam is such horrible bloated shite it has pointless overlays.

The overlay is far from pointless, in fact it's jolly handy indeed. Plus steam really isn't that bloated at all.

 

[throdgrain]

Cha, it must be Wazz says so!! And you cant get Quakeworld on it, so it's doubly pointless!

 

[Wazzerphuk]

It's turrrrrd.

I'm fulling expecting one day to have to use Steam, but I still have no need for it, thankfully. Hoping this can continue for long, sunny days to come.

 

[ECA]

The only turd is you, for not seeing the light.

 

[Scouse]

Have to say I agree with you there ECA.

Cheer up Wazz. Steam's definately FTW

 

[ECA]

In the system tray, steam takes a whole 15,876k of memory.

It's pretty bloatfree - the discounts are great ( I only buy stuff on discount ) and pickup a bunch of stuff ( very few games I care enough to buy on release anymore ) so I end up with 3-4x as many games for the same price and no worries about losing discs/cdkeys/serials/etc.

You can invite people across games to come play w/ you or when they login they can see where you are, the overlay I don't use much - but that's because I multimonitor - I imagine for single monitor players it's a godsend being able to IM on fullscreen mode.

blahblahblah etc.

Valve are not apple, it's not a douchestore

 

[throdgrain]

Must say, I think Steam is great, the only thing I dont much like about it is the server browser.

Sometimes though people who dont use it, thats all they think it is.

 

[MYstIC G]

Steam isn't that great and Valve are trying to do an Apple (bring everything under their banner like they came up with it in the first place). Some of the deals are really good though and I don't miss having to manually patch games.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

I much prefer manual patching (yes I know you can turn off auto-updates but it's bugged to fuckery).

One thing you have to remember is that working for a games company that deliver their game via Steam I'm privvy to stuff you aren't, hence some of my reasons for not liking it. It's a LOT more trouble than it's worth in most cases.

I also much prefer having physical copies of games. Really dislike buying something and then not actually owning a copy I can hold.

The only thing that will get me on Steam is if there is a game that I HAVE to play that is only through Steam. That hasn't happened yet, and doesn't look too likely to happen. I'm not a massive gamer these days, pretty much all I play is QuakeLive so there's basically no reason for me to have Steam, you don't need to push it to people who don't like it/need it for valid reasons.

 

[throdgrain]

What you on about you dont own any games, only Quake

 

[Wazzerphuk]

I bought Batman Arkham Asylum!

 

[throdgrain]

Wild man

 

[Wazzerphuk]

I have, however, become frustrated with the stupid annoying boss fights. Why haven't games progressed past the "avoid boss attacks and then strike only at certain moments to inflict damage" gameplay mechanic yet? This isn't 1994 anymore.

It's a dull, lazy way of making something more 'difficult' and frankly it's not fun.

 

[Scouse]

I have, however, become frustrated with the stupid annoying boss fights. Why haven't games progressed past the "avoid boss attacks and then strike only at certain moments to inflict damage" gameplay mechanic yet? This isn't 1994 anymore.

It's a dull, lazy way of making something more 'difficult' and frankly it's not fun.

Agreed, although I'd say 1984

There's a few things that I'd like to see happen in games but nowadays the industry is too proper-business like. And businesses are concerned with the bottom line.

Hence the glut of exactly-the-same-but-not-quite-(but-are) FPS's out there