Fucking PunkBuster kicking me because it's "HeartBeat"'s stopped.
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Seriously I can't play ONE Special Forces game without fucking getting this.
I'm lucky if I survive for over 5 minutes, actually.
I've been told to update it, I've done that, even restart punkbustera.exe.
What's going on? Can someone help me out? Can't be my connection as I was hosting a local server and it fucking gave me it anyway. Why? I don't know.
(P.S. I don't know where the fuck this thread belongs so I shoved it in this part)
Bonus which JUST happened:
Warning fuck ass huge pic.
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:siren::siren:[highlight]EVENGAMING OR WHATEVER THAT ALLOWS YOU TO DOWNLOAD PB_SETUP.EXE IS A FAILURE. THE BELOW PICTURE EXPLAINS EVERYTHING[/highlight]:siren::siren:
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itt rant about a shitty game security software that has always been broken in the hardware and software section
Demon, we all know that. You are now late.
But seriously, I know this is fixable, anyone wanna fucking help me out? It's making me rage.
Out of my own topic question:
Of all games, why does BF2: Special Forces have like, very low server count? Even GMod has more, and this I consider more fun without spawn lag and this shitty program EA doesn't bother fixing.
I was going to mention your firewall and how it might be blocking the heartbeat message, but upon reading the error in the image you posted, it seems that you have a program or driver which it isn't happy with.
Are you running any beta or odd drivers, or have any odd or naughty programs running ? Try closing everything you don't need.
Oh wow. HBD 24/7 Ghost Town is still around? I played in that server every day in like 2006.
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Did you try updating Punkbuster?
[quote=pandamobile;17935222]did you try updating punkbuster?[/quote]
most late post of 2009
Do a quick processes check. Look for the process PnkBstrA.exe(*32). If that isn't running you may need to start it manually using administrator or you might have to download a working version of the .exe
Nevermind. Rate me late/bad reading, didn't realize you already attempted to do this.
Righto. For those who want more info:
-Turned my FireWall off. Helped. But didn't last long before it returned.
-Updated Punkbuster, oh wait that's the late post of 09 nevermind.
-Turned it off and on.
-My drives are fine, it's just fucking PunkBuster. It's outdated and whenever it IS "Updated" it never really is.
PunkBuster needs an overhaul or needs to be replaced. Steam's method works well, but EA are idiots.
What method are you using to update PB?
I downloaded the latest version from their site, evengaming or something like that.
You didn't use pbsetup to update it manually?
Oh great here we go again.
Run me through how to update manually and I'll see if it's still kicking me.
Dl program run it it says omg Bf2 is installed let me update, all good man have fun.
And update all your drivers mostly graphics card.
Durp: googled for you so you can't complain.
[url]http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php[/url]
[QUOTE=Black-Ice;17935908]Oh great here we go again.
Run me through how to update manually and I'll see if it's still kicking me.[/QUOTE]
[url=http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php]http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php[/url]
Did you try that? It fixed my Punkbuster issues for Battlefield 2.
I recently installed BF2 so most likely it's the latest anyway.
Next!
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[QUOTE=Snuffy;17936015][url=http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php]http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php[/url]
Did you try that? It fixed my Punkbuster issues for Battlefield 2.[/QUOTE]
Already done.
Even if your drivers are fine, punkbuster obviously doesn't think so. Have you tried searching for that error code?
Installed the latest BF2 patches?
Everything is 1.5 except for Sandbox which is 1.0.1 which is latest anyway.
I think this might be due to a .Net Framework needing updating, so I've downloaded 3.5 SP thanks to some special person on my other thread.
Those images aren't huge at all...
[QUOTE=Muscar;17941081]Those images aren't huge at all...[/QUOTE]
Lemme toss in a pun here...
He doesn't give a crop
hehe
Punkbuster doesn't like anything that puts an overlay on the screen. It thinks you're trying to wallhack. Having said that, though, you don't seem to have any screen-overlaying software (like Steam, XFire, Wegame etc)
I think if it thought I was trying to WallHack, I would replace Kicking with Banning and "It's HeartBeat stopped" with "it thinks I'm wallhacking".
Note:
Installed Framework 3.5, helped, but didn't last very long.
[QUOTE=MegaJohnny;17941213]Punkbuster doesn't like anything that puts an overlay on the screen. It thinks you're trying to wallhack. Having said that, though, you don't seem to have any screen-overlaying software (like Steam, XFire, Wegame etc)[/QUOTE]
it's always worked with steam for me, and only started to spack out when xfire was nearly due for an update, I think it checks for the latest version or something
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