Katana Posted May 20, 2012 Member ID: 2898 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 180 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 62 Achievement Points: 1272 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/15/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 23, 2014 Birthday: 09/02/1954 Posted May 20, 2012 hey again, i just finished uninstalling COD4 and anything related to it, then i reinstalled the game. then having not coping my old profile in the cod dir i played the game. it still kicks me. its unreal. it says punkbstr 'B" fails to initiate. i then looked at the taskmaster and only punkbstr 'A' seems to be running. has anyone come up with any solutions yet ? i have tried everything i know. tomorrow i am going to call the cable co. and get them to take a look at the lines as well as my cable modem (i don't thing that the cable is the problem) please let me know if you have come up with anything. see you, Katana
Sammy Posted May 20, 2012 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 1.92 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Posted May 20, 2012 maybe av or firewall is blocking punkbuster? I assume you updated it manually also. Awards
Katana Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 2898 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 180 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 62 Achievement Points: 1272 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/15/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 23, 2014 Birthday: 09/02/1954 Author Posted May 21, 2012 hi sammy, all anti-virus and firewalls are off. all i know is that one night i was playing well (no modifications on my part) and then i wake up and tried to log on and this fiasco started. its all punkbusters fault it would seem, it also appears to be happening to many other pc users as myself. i don't know what else to do. thanks, Katana
Katana Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 2898 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 180 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 62 Achievement Points: 1272 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/15/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 23, 2014 Birthday: 09/02/1954 Author Posted May 21, 2012 P.S. i can play other games online with no problem, so it would seem that there are also no connection issues. pings are good as well.
CobraBites Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 2313 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 330 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4924 Content Per Day: 0.95 Reputation: 3034 Achievement Points: 33897 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 03/19/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 2, 2017 Birthday: 05/26/1974 Posted May 21, 2012 your goin to have to try and update pb manually as pb updated recently and yes others are having same issues....if you still cant figure it out greywolf is a good resource to help figure it out
Katana Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 2898 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 180 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 62 Achievement Points: 1272 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/15/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 23, 2014 Birthday: 09/02/1954 Author Posted May 21, 2012 hi cobra, i previously manually updated (i assume you mean go to evenbalance and copy their files into pb dir) i will try to do that to this latest install. thanks, Katana
Damage_inc- Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.27 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Posted May 21, 2012 look if ya play pc games that have punk then ya better have the pbsetup file on your desktop.Run pbsetup for all your games.. Ya didnt say what firewall you have and that would be the other thing to block pb.gl Awards
Darth Yoda Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 934 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 19 Topic Count: 131 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 832 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 137 Achievement Points: 5656 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 19, 2014 Birthday: 08/16/1960 Posted May 21, 2012 This is a little off topic,but might help to explain things. It is a very basic anolgy but everyone should be able to understand it. A hard drive can be compared to a book (and newspaper). When you install a game, it says Chapter 1 is on page 34, chapter 2 is on page 103. and so on as it finds empty space. This is a defragmented drive (like a newspaper, sports on section C, comics section b. Yoy have to do a lot of scrambling to find stuff.)
CobraBites Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 2313 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 330 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4924 Content Per Day: 0.95 Reputation: 3034 Achievement Points: 33897 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 03/19/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 2, 2017 Birthday: 05/26/1974 Posted May 21, 2012 you know i have never updated pb no issues hmmmm....interesting or wierd lol
Darth Yoda Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 934 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 19 Topic Count: 131 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 832 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 137 Achievement Points: 5656 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 19, 2014 Birthday: 08/16/1960 Posted May 21, 2012 Sorry hit the edit time limit. Had to start over. This is a little off topic,but might help to explain things. It is a very basic anolgy but everyone should be able to understand it. A hard drive can be compared to a book (and newspaper). When you install a game, it says Chapter 1 is on page 562, chapter 2 is on page 103. and so on as it finds empty space. This is a defragmented drive (like a newspaper, sports on section C, comics section b. And alot of times you'll read an article that "continues on Section E page 5". You have to do a lot of scrambling to find stuff.) When you defragment your hard drive, it rearranges things like a book, chapter 1 page 1, chapter 2 page two, and so on. Very easy to find things. SOMETIMES (especially in XP) when you uninstall a program, all it does is remove the page numbers but leaves the data. You actually show blank areas on your drive but Windows remembers where they were and what they contained.. When you reinstall all your doing is replacing the page numbers. So chapter 2 is back on page 103, and so on. Whenever you do an uninstall and you know your going to reinstall the same program, do a defrag on your system. It causes Windows to forget chapeter 2 was on 103 and will place it in a new slot ,say page 473. Everything is put in to blank areas as close together as possible. If you want tot see this in action, dwonload Defraggler. It is very easy to use has a cool animation while defragging, does a better job than Windows Defrag, and is (just as Yoda likes it) FREE. You can find it on MajorGeeks. Bottom line, Just because you reinstall doesn't mean you changed anything.
Darth Yoda Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 934 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 19 Topic Count: 131 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 832 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 137 Achievement Points: 5656 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 19, 2014 Birthday: 08/16/1960 Posted May 21, 2012 Cobra PB usually does a behing the scenes update so you probably never senn it done. X-Fire will also auto update it for you.
Katana Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 2898 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 180 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 62 Achievement Points: 1272 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/15/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 23, 2014 Birthday: 09/02/1954 Author Posted May 21, 2012 hi again, well Yoda i took your advice and took a close look at the drive. it was fragmented so i defraged the drive and it did no good.. so back to square one and i am still having problems. thanks much for the input all of you maybe if we keep at this thing we will find out whats wrong. i still have feelings its all punkbusters fault. btw all of you remember i have no firewall running and in have all antivirus setup so that it will only run if i call upon it. i have installed cod4 for the 3rd time in the last two days, all this came about since that fateful day may 14, 2012 (a day of infamy) pb and their crappy update. still need help, thanks, Katana p.s. also remember i can play other games using pb and no problems. the game included are cod2 and crysis wars.and i can play cod4 on servers that have pb turned off
google Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 1270 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 149 Topic Count: 330 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 3864 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 4548 Achievement Points: 34203 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 03/22/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 26 Birthday: 04/12/1969 Device: Windows Posted May 21, 2012 ok Katana try this...http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsvcfaq.php if this does not work either,.....I'll send my PB archive in my game...I did this to flush> XI <.....and solved.. add me in xfire arres172 Damage_inc- 1 Awards
Katana Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 2898 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 180 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 62 Achievement Points: 1272 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/15/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 23, 2014 Birthday: 09/02/1954 Author Posted May 21, 2012 hi Google, i would gladly add you to xfire but i don't use their service. i disabled my xfire over three years ago having suspected them of causing e-mail spams and suspecting them of getting into my personal stuff. sorry but we can surely keep in close contact thru this site. as for sharing your pb archive i am game for that if it will work. how would we do this ??? i really appreciate the help and suggestions from all of you. thanks, Katana
PingLo Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 1103 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 64 Topic Count: 119 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1977 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 1122 Achievement Points: 15642 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 02/08/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 16, 2013 Birthday: 01/01/2012 Posted May 21, 2012 A burn the field (format) and reload OS and all programs should definitely resolve the issue.
google Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 1270 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 149 Topic Count: 330 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 3864 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 4548 Achievement Points: 34203 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 03/22/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 26 Birthday: 04/12/1969 Device: Windows Posted May 21, 2012 (edited) give me you mail adress ty ...I'm now at work... as I get home...after 3 hours...17.00 GMT+2... ))))I have to send mail...and we enter the TS.... http://letmegoogleth...meIdiots+server Edited May 21, 2012 by google Awards
Sonovabich Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1535 Topics Per Day: 0.27 Content Count: 5022 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 5197 Achievement Points: 131535 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 7 Device: Windows Posted May 21, 2012 Hope you get it sorted soon Katana, i sent you PM about possibly reinstalling cod4, looks like you already did that to no avail, i also suggested you try to restore your PC to an earlier date, maybe go back a week or so before the last PB update and see if that might cure it. PingLo and google 2
Damage_inc- Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.27 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Posted May 21, 2012 ok now ya got many people trying to help u here.Many have told you to update punk.You say "yes ive dont that before manualy?"?We are telling you and showing the link to download pb setup.You have not told us if you even tried this .If you havent then do it now.Use the link from google download pbsetup .Put file on desktop and keep it there.Add all your games to it and update punk. Awards
Boomer Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 2083 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3554 Content Per Day: 0.68 Reputation: 4992 Achievement Points: 23761 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 14, 2014 Birthday: 10/20/1962 Posted May 21, 2012 hi sammy, all anti-virus and firewalls are off. all i know is that one night i was playing well (no modifications on my part) and then i wake up and tried to log on and this fiasco started. its all punkbusters fault it would seem, it also appears to be happening to many other pc users as myself. i don't know what else to do. thanks, Katana omg your asking for trouble turning off your protection, thats nuts no matter what you are trying to do! as a matter of fact that maybe 1 of your problems now.... I don't care what the reason, I'm not ever turning my shit off for anything! Its sad really, because PB is a suck ass program anyway! But as Damage said, try it now, the way they are telling you to do it
Damage_inc- Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.27 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Posted May 21, 2012 btw ive never had to reinstall a game unless my pc crashed and defrag has never caused me an issue like this in all the years of this.Its always been fiewall blocking or game patch not installed or punk not updated or perhaps you have punk set off in game,which is possible.Make sure in multiplayer options and make your own server options punkbuster is yes. Awards
Boomer Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 2083 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3554 Content Per Day: 0.68 Reputation: 4992 Achievement Points: 23761 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 14, 2014 Birthday: 10/20/1962 Posted May 21, 2012 you know i have never updated pb no issues hmmmm....interesting or wierd lol HAXZOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lmao
Katana Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 2898 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 180 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 62 Achievement Points: 1272 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/15/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 23, 2014 Birthday: 09/02/1954 Author Posted May 21, 2012 hi, in the last few days i have not only manually updated my pb but i also have used the pbsetup.exe as well thats all been done every time i have reinstalled in the past few days as a matter of fact last night as i reinstalled the game for the third time i used pbsetup.exe and did the manual on top of that. hasn't helped at all i also defraged my drive last night i never have a firewall at all they are usually more trouble than they are worth. the antivirus i have only runs when i tell it to. now it is my understanding that to manually update that you just go to that section where your game updates are at pb and simply copy a couple of links into the htm dir in the pb dir. not that tough also boomer i agree with you pb sucks.! thanks friends, Katana p.s. there is another police program available called i think "Aeon" why can't we try that ?
CobraBites Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 2313 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 330 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4924 Content Per Day: 0.95 Reputation: 3034 Achievement Points: 33897 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 03/19/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 2, 2017 Birthday: 05/26/1974 Posted May 21, 2012 yea dont forget to download the 1.7 patch you def need that...
Sonovabich Posted May 21, 2012 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1535 Topics Per Day: 0.27 Content Count: 5022 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 5197 Achievement Points: 131535 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 7 Device: Windows Posted May 21, 2012 Katana i'm not sure what you mean when you say to manually update you just go to where your game updates are then you just copy a couple of links into the htm dir in the pb dir, i never have to copy anything when i update i just follow the links and click in the appropriate place http://www.punkbuster.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php
Katana Posted May 22, 2012 Member ID: 2898 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 180 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 62 Achievement Points: 1272 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/15/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 23, 2014 Birthday: 09/02/1954 Author Posted May 22, 2012 hey folks, well i have the cable company coming tomorrow to check all the lines interior and exterior, also i am having them install a new modem. i just finished reinstalling my lan card drivers (didn't help). i have done just about everything that can be thought of and then some. i am still waiting on the incredibly slow wheels at evenbalance to turn out some solution. never can tell what they will do if they do anything at all . see ya'll, Katana p.s. sono thats what manual update is all about. when you run pbsetup.exe it runs and finds these links and puts them in the right directory. when you manually update you go to evenbalance find the latest files you need and save them into the correct dir yourself. see you
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