PB periodically hangs me for 4-6 secs

(Doc_A) #1

Whenever I’m on any PB enabled server, every so often I hang for 4-6
seconds. This repeats every 3 minutes or so. Even the sound loops and
then gameplay is restored to normal, but I’m usually dead from enemy
fire.

Since I don’t get this on non-pb servers I assume it’s a side effect of PB.

Here’s what I have tried:

  1. Reinstalling Wolf and PB from source.
  2. Installing Wolf patch (in my case patch 1.01)
  3. Updating PB (using pbweb from evenbalance)

Could this be a firewall issue? Maybe my pc is trying to connect to
evenbalance??

Any suggestions would be helpful. I may bypass my router this afternoon
to see if that is the cause.

Thanks in advance.

(Lekdevil.NL) #2

See the PB FAQ:

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:

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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 1”.