Default PunkBuster Sleep Time?

[imported_Zach]

Okay, a couple of weeks ago, I did that Punkbuster optimization trick so many people around here suggest:

pb_sleep 500
pb_writecfg

Since that time, not very often but often enough to be annoying, I get kicked from servers with a PB error message stating to revert back to unmodified content (blah, blah).

What's the original (default) sleep value so I can set it back? Anyone know?

[Talus]

Re: Default PunkBuster Sleep Time?

60 I believe

[jdogg88-Fed]

Re: Default PunkBuster Sleep Time?

thought it was 20 never had a problem after i changed the time

[imported_Zach]

Re: Default PunkBuster Sleep Time?

Well, like I said, it doesn't happen often: maybe once or twice a day.

I've been playing nearly daily (yeah, I'm a nut) since June, and never had I been kicked with a PB "modified content" error, but the day I changed the sleep interval a couple of weeks ago, it started happening--and again, daily now.

Coincidence? Perhaps, but I doubt it. I'll change it back and see what happens.

Thanks for the replies. (I just wish I knew for sure if it is 60 or 20. :p)

[=ITF=_Popeye]

Re: Default PunkBuster Sleep Time?

20 Positive!

[imported_Zach]

Re: Default PunkBuster Sleep Time?

Okay. Thanks!

As a side note, though, all these values seem unrealistically low. Say, for instance, you have a ping of 120 ms to a server--not a bad ping in and of itself. If PB queries the server every 20 ms, then it would have to make six queries before it got its response to the first one. It makes no sense that PB would require such an impossible query rate. <shrug>

(And yeah, I know the ping to the game server has nothing to do with the ping to the PB server, but I seriously doubt PB servers fair as well since every player on the planet is continuously making TCP/IP transcations with them, not just the 64 on the game server.)

[Talus]

Re: Default PunkBuster Sleep Time?

..and that's why I have mine set happily to 500

I've been doing this tweak since PB was first introduced without a problem.

[JCFast]

Re: Default PunkBuster Sleep Time?

OMG! I was just gonna ask the same question!

So it's 20?

[Talus]

Re: Default PunkBuster Sleep Time?

Lemme check..I'll log onto a fresh BF2 install and tell you what it says.

[Talus]

Re: Default PunkBuster Sleep Time?

It's 60

20-500 is the range you're allowed.

[JCFast]

Re: Default PunkBuster Sleep Time?

K thanks.

[Talus]

Re: Default PunkBuster Sleep Time?

No problem..I'm just glad I finally decided to check.

Somebody above said they were 'positive' it was 20... I thought that sounded a bit off.

No matter...20ms-60ms isn't a big difference. 60ms to 500ms sure is

[xlr8r]

Re: Default PunkBuster Sleep Time?

uhm - then why does it say in the pbcl.cfg that the default is 250?

(Battlefield 2\pb)

[Talus]

Re: Default PunkBuster Sleep Time?

Dunno..when I installed the game and typed 'pb_sleep' in the console, it said it was set to 60.

When has PunkBuster EVER gotten anything right??!?

[imported_Zach]

Re: Default PunkBuster Sleep Time?

The default value cited in that configuration file got updated from 60 to 250 in the second to last PB update. I guess they finally realized the error of their ways. :p