CD KEY in use at different IP ??? WHAT!!!

(kinderino) #1

ok lets see if someone can help me out with this problem i am having

i try to log into a server and i get the message that my CD key is being used.

How can that be I say … this game is free (no cdkey) as far as i know.

so i thought … Virus… badly installed and downloaded that game again and POW… still happens i have looked at the FAQ but didnt see any help there.

the weird thingf about this CDKEY problem is that i can play on a server and if i Leave that server and try to reconnect 10 mins later i gtet the CDKEY problems.

someone help me here its a bit fustrating

Kinder :banghead:

(Weaver24) #2

Each time ET is installed it generates a new CD key.

Try a clean instail, that should fix you up.

(Sauron|EFG) #3

You get this if you reconnect too soon with a different IP.
Are you by any chance on dial-up, or DSL with dynamic IP?

(kinderino) #4

i have clean reinstalled 3 or 4 times–

i have tryed to read only the ETkey in ETmain folder

i have tryed a long list of things and nothing seems to work besides playing on a NO punkbuster server

If i try to connect to anyother i get the Ip adress in use problems

pb_cdkeyreg seems not to help much either

:banghead:

it is a bit irritateing. i have read alot of feeds on this same subject and seems i am no the only one with i problem

ACK someone give me a answer im going crazy
:banana:

(bogs) #5

few things to try :

-complain to evenbalance and wait for a patch.
-try a new private ip addresses until you find a private ip that nobody else in the ET community is using.
-stop playing from behind a firewall.
-disable punkbuster in your ET client and install a punkbuster hack… it runs in the background and simulates punkbuster. no i will not give you a copy

what have I been telling you people! evenbalance can’t even come up with a working algorithm to generate unique id’s. they are chumps. either drop the anti-cheat crap which does NOTHING but annoy and disrupt regular players and lull them into a false sense of security, or BUY OUT EVENBALANCE and re-staff the place.

(fatmanfat) #6

heh - this is a because et is basically modded quake 3 arena. really you don’t need a cd key for a free game, but instead they hacked a solution of generating one. don’t know how to fix it though.

(SCDS_reyalP) #7

Wow bogs, could you BE any more uniformed ?

RTCW had one of the lowest rates of cheating in any online game. ET is a bit harder, because there are no CDs, but I haven’t seen any cheating. PB certainly has had it’s problems, but overall, it has worked very well for most people. It sure as hell is better than having wallhacks and aimbots everywhere.

kinderino
What kind of connection are you on ? Is it a dynamic IP ? Do you have a router, firewall or some internet sharing device ? Do you have a LAN with more than one computer ?

(Z) #8

We do have a LAN with 2 computers sharing the same internet connection.
We also use a firewall for this LAN
We get an insane number of “valid CDkey not reaching…” :angry:
and a new one since yesterday: both computers connect just fine, but the connection quality is just crap (permanent “connection interrupted”) :banghead:

Please, please: any ideas???

(bogs) #9

PB certainly has had it’s problems, but overall, it has worked very well for most people. It sure as hell is better than having wallhacks and aimbots everywhere.

They are there. You can use PB hacks that run in the background. You will NEVER stop people who want to cheat unless you are sitting in the same room as them looking over their shoulder.

Some guys (evenbalance) saw how people bitching about cheaters can DESTROY a game. People like you. So they invented punkbuster to ease the pain of game companies. NOT TO KEEP YOU SAFE FROM CHEATERS. TO KEEP THE GAME SAFE FROM PEOPLE LIKE YOU.

Like, how did the conversation go down at evenbalance when they had to come up with a way to use unique keys… I wonder.

guy1 : “Ok, lets use start at one and increment by one each time we need a new key”

guy2 : “uhm, no. ahem. let’s use a complex MD5 hash made up of something that identifies the users machine”

guy1 : “uhm. ok”.

guy2 : “let’s just use IP address, its always unique”

guy1 : “cool”

days pass…

guy2 : “oh shit, then people behind a firewall can’t play at the same time - uhhhh, ok lets use PRIVATE IP’S instead of public…”

guy1 : “good idea dude, let’s go get drunk”

(DG) #10

“HI I LIEK HAEV PB HAX!!!11 IT WERKS AN DYOU CAN CH33T AND LIEK OWN AND LIEK RUIN TEH GAME MEIGHTS. GIEV MEH J00R EMAIL 2 SEND TEH HAX 2 U, IT WONT BE A TROJAN HONEST!!!1111122346567889”.

(SCDS_reyalP) #11

You are right. You cannot stop all cheaters. Evenbalance knows this, and never claimed they would. However, you can stop widespread cheating. Any cheat that becomes popular enough will become known to evenbalance, and they can update pb to detect it.

It is a reacitve thing, like AV software. It is not perfect, but it works pretty darn well. A year of nearly cheat free RTCW is good evidence of that.

(bogs) #12

No you can never stop it. It’s never been widespread. But people are always bitching about cheaters, and punkbuster stops the bitching. It’s stops you doesn’t it?

Any cheat that becomes popular enough will become known to evenbalance, and they can update pb to detect it.

And two seconds after evenbalance released the client update, the people who write the pb hacks send out their own autoupdate.

A year of nearly cheat free RTCW is good evidence of that.

It does do what it’s supposed to do. And that is convince you that your games are safe from cheaters. But that’s all it does. Convince.

It also kicks people. That’s bright. I make a typo and get kicked instead of being bumped to spec for example. wow. good job. but see, that’s part of the mind f*ck. people are getting KICKED so punkbuster is TOUGH and nobody can mess with punkbuster. ya right.