Punkbuster issues

[mickvette]

I have been having majopr issues with punkbuster being disabled on my PC, seems to have started ever since BT (my ISP) downloaded their new McAfee realtime virus checker system. Even when I do into Multiplayer options and turn it back on, ity doesn't actually turn on! The only way I can get PB to work is to restore back a to the point before they, in their infinite wisdom, chose to inflict their new system upon me!

I have tried (with Rockape's help) to reinstall PB, no good, get the error 'floating point not installed' and when I do get into a game, runs like a SOB and loads of error messages 'CRITICAL ERROR: cannot load C:program files/activisioncall of duty 4...../pb/pbcls.dll

 

Totally at a loss, any ideas anyone?

 

Real pain in the ass having to carry out a restore to get an hour or so game time before it all kicks off again!!!

 

 

ps have a couple of screen grabs but can't remember how to upload here...DOH!!!

[chavez]

did you try a manually update ???

[Gump]

Try disabling MaCafee and see if pb will work,it might be blocking it.You could also try adding an exception in the settings to not scan the pb files.Personally I would get rid of MaCafee and try one of the free solutions,like Microsoft Security Essentials.

[tsw 8.5]

yes gump is right .take macfee out .and get microsoft security essentials.. it is great and i used avast for ever ..but m s e is way better

[mickvette]

mmm have disabled firewall (McAfee) no good, switched off the virus checker, also no solution, all seems to have happened since, like I said, my ISP downloaded my updated McAfee version, all stinks of Big Brother, or is this SkyNet taking over...(Terminator 1,2,3 and all the rest!)

[greywolf2]

Have you tried going into your system folder and find the pbvc   and try to repair pb.........

[BUDMAN]

Had almost same problem 1 time...had to go in safe mode to get rid of McAFee it fixed all concerns that i had..... weird shit going on..... and use malwarebytes along with avast

[7Toes]

McAfee sucks get rid of it go to avast.com get free version is great.

[mickvette]

well after managing to get it to work for a while, all fucked up again! I am going to uninstall COD2 and 4, PB, remove McAfee and all that crap, then go for a complete reinstall, what a total pain in the ASS!!!!!

[Graffitti]

You might already tghought of this yourself, but the McAffee software probably changed the firewall settings of your PC, try to force an exception for the PB exe-file....  Just a thought maybe?

[DEEJAYKEG]

Since the "fun" I had with their First Aid 98 product, I haven't touched anything from that company and will never do so.  I have bought machines with trials pre-installed and the first job on powering them up was to remove the software.

ISPs and anyone else are in no position to dictate what AV program one uses and there are some much superior alternatives available.

 

[BUDMAN]

one question did you go in to safe mode to get rid of it...?

if not it's still fooking with you...................