Posts Tagged ‘PunkBuster’
Punkbuster Again…
Posted by Wanderlust in First Person Shooters, Patches, PC Gaming Sunday, 15 August 2010 23:39 No Comments
How many times is this here? So I hoped into a Battlefield Bad Company 2 server on Team Rush (my favorite…Panama Canal), revive someone almost immediately, set the charge, kill someone and boom… An error on PunkBuster B not getting a handshake. Neat stuff. So I do an update…. I have 7 games installed that use PB…. Do they use dial up for updates at PB? These are relatively small files and it shows 10 minutes for the update!!! While updating, it hits Battlefield 2 and errors out that it can’t copy a file from the temp directory to Battlefield 2: error 3: the system cannot find the path specified, followed by error #0121: ERROR: Could not copy xxx to xxx during HTM conversion. I don’t use UAC so it’s not that. Good stuff, PunkBuster… You’re a quality company.
When I went out to download the latest version (I thought it took care of itself), it prompts me for a security verification code… Huh? To download a file? Are there people fraudulently downloading PunkBuster? The nerve of people!! Or is it that they suck so bad that people were downloading it over and over as a manor of a DoS attack? Who knows. Of course the update for a full install of, what 5, 10 mb(?) is now 34 minutes.
Punkbuster Sucks
Posted by Wanderlust in First Person Shooters, PC Gaming Tuesday, 26 June 2007 04:33 No Comments
No longer do you have to wait for issues to arise with EA/DiCE games like BF2 or BF2142 after so long of playing and crashing, now you have to deal with Punkbuster and their memory resident GARBAGE. Multiple times now while playing BF2142 it gets minimized to see a PunkBuster error. They did a decent job in the early days but now it’s just garbage and shows up in games. I didn’t mind it when it loaded for a specific game but apparently they’re attempting to do something with memory resident programs that crash randomly and in the case of BF2142 kill the game you’re in since it doesn’t minimize well after playing for a while.
Another company that I hope goes down in flames and someone else starts working on hack/cheat software.
The other pleasant problem with BF2142 is the blank random PunkBuster messages. You have no idea if you were kicked for some reason or if it was PB just sucking ass and I tend to think it was the latter. Some days it never happens, others it happens on multiple servers for no apparent reason… Is it ping? Is it a vote? Is it something else? You don’t find out because the message is BLANK!