We were hacked. Several times over the past two weeks, in fact.
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Mine wasn't locking up completely or getting me kicked, just stuttering/looping sound from ingame or TS, with very very slow response (if at al) to alt-tab/ctr-alt-del. Everything would come good after a few minutes, if I had the patience to wait. I was pretty sure it was PB because changing pb_sleep setting changed the delay/frequncy before the problem started and the PunkbusterB service was always accessing cpu in task manager when I did manage to alt-tab.
I went throught the steps to remove and reinstall PB from the first post.
This worked for a day but next day the problem was back. At lease I can update pb before I load the game now.
In the end, I read a post at Overclockers Australia about shutting down RivaTuner before I loaded BF2 and this seems to have done the trick.
I'm having the intermittent handshaking error as well. The night before last I was able to play for 2 hours without a single problem, incident, or glitch.
Last night, however, I was repeatedly booted (from the same server I was playing on the night before) for handshaking error. I check for updates using the PBsetup before every session as well.
???????
Oh....and another thing, the other night when I was actually able to play the game guess what I saw in-game?
The commander hack. Yup, hundreds of jeeps falling from the sky.
WTF punkbuster?!?!?!?!
This seems to me to be one of the most obvious hacks I've seen! What the hell is your "new and improved" system doing anyways if it's not actually stopping the hackers??? Is your new system actually just stealing all my personal information of my computer and routing it to your stronghold in the Grand Cayman Islands?
The game was fine before you ruined it with your "fix" punkbuster!
I hope Punkbuster dies of gonorrhea and burns in hell (with Dan Marino).
I haven't played BF2 since the PB issue came up unfortunately and basically even Balance is telling me to re-intall BF2 completely, which sucks as I will have to reconfigure everything.
I get a EULA error when installing PB.exe which is fairly unique. Quake Wars Enemy Territory just arrived so I may just start playing that instead of BF2. However it that game sucks I might just bite the bullet and re-install BF2.
It's my fav game and I'm just sad that I've had to do all this crap for what is clearly a software issue and nothing we're doing as gamers.
All the great games I've played over the years, Tribes 2 particularly eventually had some sofware/bug/patch that killed it and forced me to move on. Sounds like it might be time to do this with BF2.
If any of you guys have an final fixes I'd be happy to try them.
THIS IS BS! i have dun everyfix i cant find soloution
IF you really have done everything then the only thing left is to reformat and reinstall windows... If this doesn't clear things up for you then I don't know what will.
Dunno if someone else has already posted this, I got about half way through the posts and then stopped looking but I did notice quite a few folk mention that Punbuster continues to run even if BF2 isn't running.
Here's how you can stop it.
Create a new text document
Type the following minus the quotation marks "SC.EXE STOP PnkBstrA"
Save the file as something memorable ensure it has the .BAT extension. Stoppunk.BAT is mine.
Stick the file on your desktop. Double click to stop punkbuster
To create a file that restarts punkbuster do exactly as above but use the text "SC.EXE START PnkBstrA" .
I noticed a few folk saying that PunkbusterB is another program that runs along side PunkbusterA but I've had a look on my system and I can only find PnkBstrA running in the processes list. I had a dig around in services.msc and found PnkBstrB but clicking on it's properties brings up an error saying it doesn't exist.
If however you do have both PnkBstrB and PnkBstrA running in your process list then you can create file that reads
"SC.EXE STOP PnkBstrA"
"SC.EXE STOP PnkBstrB"
That should stop both of them with a double click of the mouse.
is anybody getting kicked repeatedly for "losing key packets"? cause i am and nothing works. i got a ticket on the pb site and they told be to run pb setup about a month ago and when i told them it didnt work they decided they would stop trying to help me, havent heard from em since. im gunna try everyting again from this thread to see if i missed a step, but i doubt it, if you guys find anything else out let me know.
i don't really understand what you're supposed to do if you have the "handshaking failed" problem. Am I supposed to reinstall PB or deal with the virus scanner software stuff in my computer? (I have an Hp with Vista)
PB is the worst thing that ever happened to BF2 and any game at all. I am not surprised it screws up the game, it's practically made to cause problems.
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this is so stupid.
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