twiglet Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 Ok I've just started playing online on BF2142 and after about three minutes of playing on a server the server will suddenly cut out sending me back to the server list screen with a little popup saying punkbuster, now as far as I know I'm not cheating or runing around team killing so could someone with a bit more knowledge on the subject give me some advice as to what to do. Thanks in advance twiglet Link to post Share on other sites
noodlenissin Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 Ok I've just started playing online on BF2142 and after about three minutes of playing on a server the server will suddenly cut out sending me back to the server list screen with a little popup saying punkbuster, now as far as I know I'm not cheating or runing around team killing so could someone with a bit more knowledge on the subject give me some advice as to what to do. Thanks in advance twiglet Lo.. Does the popup only say Punkbuster? Is there any other information? Have you ever had any 'anti-competitive' software installed? Has it suddenly started doing this - or has it been always? Is it always on the same server - any people that dont like you on there? Neil Link to post Share on other sites
RedScare Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 you might need to dl a patch or something. I had a similar problem with bf2 until i found out that i needed to get a updater thingy. Link to post Share on other sites
twiglet Posted October 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 I'm a complete noob to the game and I've been trying it on loads of different servers with always the same results. It dosent say anything besides the word punkbuster and I can't think of any anti competetive software i would have installed. I've already patched up the game every time it said that one was available. Link to post Share on other sites
Staceh Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 Check the official forums, theres a huge amount of info and a fix for this. Link to post Share on other sites
Moriquende Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php Link to post Share on other sites
DazJW Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 As above, punkbuster itself needs updating manually. You might also want to check that you have punkbustera.exe and punkbusterb.exe set to be able to access the internet in your firewall. Link to post Share on other sites
twiglet Posted October 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 Well I just did moriquende's manual update and that didn't work. It Now say PB IMPORTANT: RESTRICTION: Service Comunication Faliure PnkBstrA.exe and then goes back to the server list screen with the punkbuster popup. Link to post Share on other sites
noodlenissin Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 Well I just did moriquende's manual update and that didn't work. It Now say PB IMPORTANT: RESTRICTION: Service Comunication Faliure PnkBstrA.exe and then goes back to the server list screen with the punkbuster popup. From runner32 at www.punkbusted.com (staff). All credit to them =========== The issue is a communication failure. Which simply put, means a security application is blocking the A service from talking to the B process or blocking the services communication with Even Balance. Please make sure you add the A and all B locations to your firewalls. The A service is called from your "C:\WINDOWS\system32\PnkBstrA.exe" There is also a copy of the B executable in "C:\WINDOWS\system32\PnkBstrB.exe" this probably should be granted access as well as any games copy which will be found in the PB folder inside the games root folder. i.e. BF2142 default path is "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Battlefield 2142\pb\PnkBstrB.exe" If granting access to these via your firewall doesn't fix the issue. Try reinstalling the services with the PBSVC installer found http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsvcfaq.php Run it as "Administrator" every time you run it by right clicking and choosing Run As. Do the same with the PBSetup program found http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php If that does not work your best coarse of action is to open a Support Ticket with Even Balance. http://www.evenbalance.com ============ Also if you are running vista - there are some vista specific topics at evenbalance.com Neil Link to post Share on other sites
twiglet Posted October 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 Ok I've had a look and I can't seem to find anything called PnkBstrA.exe would it have a different name? Link to post Share on other sites
DazJW Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 When I had the problem I found instructions similar to the above and then found that one of the .exe files was in a different location to the stated one. Just use the windows search and look for PnkBstrA.exe and PnkBstrB.exe. But do update Punkbuster manually first. Link to post Share on other sites
charlieboy69 Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 grrrr yesterday everyone had to update PB on bf1942 Link to post Share on other sites
twiglet Posted October 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 Well Ive searched using the windows search but I can't find this damned PnkBstrA.exe or PnkBstrB.exe, would it really have been that hard for them to make a game that the user didn't have to finish building themselves. Link to post Share on other sites
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