Problems with Punkbuster? Solutions here.

[HMARS]

I opened an evenbalance ticket about this a while ago, and had one abandoned and another where they told me a solution we be deployed "as soon as it was available." It seems like this is a common issue, so why isn't evenbalance doing anything about it?

[Adetter]

How can i update Punkbuster manually?

[[R-COM]SnipingCoward]

News on the "Pnkbstrb.exe Hearbeats stopped" front.
I was cursed with this issue and might have found a possible cause and solution (this is probably a very rare cause for PB-B kicks and will only apply to very few people with the exact same "JRAID" issue).

I had a recent issue with Windows 7's event viewer reporting a "JRAID" error. This Error would freeze up the PC for a few seconds and in addtion (as stated by the error text) reset busses. This might cause PB-B to lose connection or otherwise stop functioning properly.

How I fix the JRAID error can be found here: http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f358...at-stopped.htm

In addition as a suggestion for finding a cause use "Event Viewer" and/or "Reliability Monitor" to see if windows reports errors/events that might explain the PB issue.

[bobogaz]

I got the server communication failure pnkbstrA. what should i do?

[Silenttriger]

PnkbusterB.exe heartbeats stopped...
It comes up everytime I play. Any solution allready?
Really want to play it, but the punkbuster causes imense lag and it gets worse after some time untill eventually i get kicked.
Help woud be appreciated.
Grtz

[slothrop]

Silenttrigger, I don't think the PB issue is causing lag. Either it works and you're on the server, or it doesn't and you're off.

My present solution is:
- switch off the router firewall
- switched anti-virus software to "silent mode" or better yet, disable shields completely.
- launch game
- go to desktop, launch services
- select PR server and load map
- switch to services when the loading progress bar reaches 63%
- check PB B recovery settings ( must be set to Restart Service)
- switch back to game and you should be able to play
- check recovery settings every time you load a map

Frankly, it's a pain in the *rse and I have all but given up on playing PR now
.87 was simply fantastic, but since then it's all just been one big battle with PB. The trend towards larger and more technically demanding maps also seems to be exacerbating things...

Kudos to the devs for creating an awesome mod, and adios!

[B2k43]

Keep getting kicked for wrong MD5 toolkit (said something to do with renderDX9.dll) but this is the first time it's done this since I've installed 0.95. I know y'all are going to tell me to post this in the "Problems with MD5 toolkit" thread but all their solutions are for ver. 0.874.

[NemeanHavoc]

I replaced my damn shader files 10 times!!!! It is still kicking me!

[cid228]

Oh yay .."MD5Tool Mismatch: RendDX9x2.dll (len=204" is back !

Getting it on some servers, not all.
Tried replacing with an old hotfix RendDX9.dll that used to work, but same problem still popping up.
Any solutions ?

[Silenttriger]

Finally solved pnkbstrB.exe heartbeats stopped error !!!
I used a combination of 2 things for my last attempt to fix it: this one is the first

start the pbsvc, and Remove punkbuster, and go to the map of battlefield (c:/programm/EA/
and remove the punkbuster map.

after this, DONT REINSTALL PUNKBUSTER WITH PBSVC

close pbsvc, restart pc, and then go to punbuster update (PBsetup),
now if you start pbsetup, you will see it did not find the client, and server of it,
but it does not matter, just click on update,

and it will automaticly REINTALL punkbuster and update it,

And second: turn textures and lightning ingame to medium.
After that, I had no problems and everything ran smooth
Finally I'm able to enjoy the gameplay ^^
Cheers