Punkbuster Causing PC Lockups

(Raffle) #1

I’m hoping someone can help with a problem I’m encountering when trying to play on PB-enabled servers. Usually, my first time connecting to a PB-enabled server will result in a kick for Game Integrity Violation within 30 seconds of joining a team, and then if I try to reconnect, my PC will lockup and the game is stuck in a continuous sound loop. I first tried re-installing the game which had no bearing, and then I tried updating using pbweb and the manual update from evenbalance.com. My /pb_system was set to 1, so I tried switching that to 0 and at this point, I am out of ideas on what to try. My PC specs are as follows:

AMD 64 Winchester 3200
MSI K8N Neo4 MB
GeForce 6800GT 256MB (PCI-E 16x 81.95 version drivers)
2 x 512 MB DDR Corsair

I have had the PC a little over a year now and I used to play ET without any problems with these same specs up until 6-8 months ago. When I first encountered this problem last year, I just decided to give ET a break anyways and now that I’d like to get back to playing, I’m stuck on what to try. The game runs fine on non-PB servers but that isn’t where I want to play :smiley: I did some research on the forums and found some similar reported issues with nforce chipsets & ATI cards, so it didn’t seem to apply. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

(jah) #2

this used to happen to a friend of mine and the solution he found was to simply copy the pb folder from another friend, overwriting the one he had installed.

dunno, don’t hurt to try.

good luck :S

(fattakin) #3

There is a new tool on http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php
that will update all out of date PB files before you connect to a server hence you shouldnt have any issues with it trying to update. Give it a whirl

#4

My brother has told me that he can’t play on PB servers without Admin rights on the computer.

(Raffle) #5

Appreciate the advice so far, but I already tried the pbsetup.exe when I went to evenbalance.com and I always log on with administrative rights when I want to play games. I played for about 5 hrs straight last night on an ET Pro server not running PB, so any additional advice on how to fix the problem with PB would be helpful.

(Sauron|EFG) #6
  • Scan for viruses and spyware.
  • Close down everything else before starting ET (seemingly innocent programs like GetRight have caused PB problems in the past).
  • Try to remember if you updated any driver around the time the problem started, then that’s probably the problem. (Try different nForce 4 and GFX drivers.)
(Raffle) #7

Already done, sorry I forgot to mention that in my earlier post. I have a daily a full virus check done on my PC at 8:00 AM while I’m sleeping but forced a full check just to see if anything came up. I also did a spyware check and my PC was clean.

  • Close down everything else before starting ET (seemingly innocent programs like GetRight have caused PB problems in the past).

Not even sure what GetRight is, but I already only have the bare essential programs when starting up my PC. I have tried disabling my antivirus software (AVG) but that did not help. The only other programs I have running in my system tray are my UPS power supply monitor & NVidia settings.

  • Try to remember if you updated any driver around the time the problem started, then that’s probably the problem. (Try different nForce 4 and GFX drivers.)

I hadn’t updated any drivers at the time. Since the problem has occurred, I have updated my graphics drivers to 81.95 which was back on 11/05 due to another game I play requiring the update. That update has not made any difference with ET. I haven’t updated the nForce drivers yet because I haven’t seen that working in any other similar reported cases with nForce chipsets. I don’t like to update drivers for the heck of it, but if anyone can confirm that this has fixed a similar issue and what drivers fixed it, I would greatly appreciate the feedback.

(Nail) #8

seems there was a problem with nforce4 mbs a while back, but still best to update mb drivers (chipset, sata or raid, etc.)

(SubstandardJones) #9

Oh, silly Rocco. Up to your old tricks, are you?

Only a ford taurus can solve your problems.

(Raffle) #10

I find your advice far below premium. I have already tried the Ford Taurus and even ensured it was green. As I’m sure you’re aware, it is a technology ahead of its time and only created more problems.