Crazy56

Does anybody know where I can get my hands on a small program that was written to check CVARS as people connect to a server? I know it's used to battle against people using their scroll wheel as a fire button. Thanks in advance,

No worries, just trying to help you get your question answered as fast as possible. The forum that we are currently in is where I would post your question. The url is here: http://www.pbbans.com/forums/index.php?showforum=319

Hey bud, you may have a quicker response by the PBBans staff if you create your own thread instead of hijacking a thread. If you create your own thread, the admins can see your name as the author instead of using this thread with it showing me as the author.

I agree with ya Road, the B&S website is a reputable place to get info, but yeah anybody that downloads any configs most definitely need to do some research on all of the CVAR settings to make sure they won't get kicked and/or banned from servers that have the standard PB set up.....not referring to you BOTA, I'm just stating that people should be VERY VERY careful when downloading another player's config file to use as their own.

The only problem with turning on free spectate is it allows all dead players to spectate all alive players, even those on the opposing team. I, along with many others, begged and pleaded with IW to allow the COD2 type spectate modes but it fell on deaf ears unfortunately.

I have also seen and used that config while playing. Some servers will definitely kick you for using quite a few cvars that fall out of the ranges provided by the server configs. Basically that server config makes your game run as efficiently as possible by turning everything down as low as possible. And I absolutely agree with Hugin that you should ALWAYS be weary of using anything like that config unless you understand each cvar changed, and how it affects your game, because some server admins may perm ban you for getting kicked from their server, thinking you were trying to cheat on their server. Those server admins are well within their right to ban anybody they feel are breaking their server rules.

Thanks Fozzer, VERY much appreciated. And thanks a ton for being so quick. I will be back wearing [ETS] tags very soon.

This is intended for a PBBans Admin. I am trying to remove the team name and game tags so I can join a new clan and be active once again in the PBBans community. I tried to remove them myself, but find myself unable to do so. So, if an admin can contact me on this ASAP I would be most grateful. Thanks in advance, Crazy56

I understand that, but do you have any US leagues set up or is the league based in UK? You guys should work on creating a UK league and a US league. I'm only asking that because most Americans hate playing on UK servers because their ping is usually well over 100.

I Googled the hack # and I found quite a few people caught with the same hack, I also believe it to be a valid bust. Hopefully you do the right thing and say bye bye to the hacking critter.

Looks that way to me as well.

I'm not sure if the private hack that was sent to me a few days ago was the same one you tried referring to in the first post (I will not post the name here either), but I was able to send 2 rather expensive private hacks to EvenBalance. So hopefully they will be detected in the near future with a PB update....and hopefully one was the one you referred to. If you ever have one sent to you, first NEVER install it or open it in any way. Second, email it to [email protected]. Third, immediately delete it from your system and recycle bin.

Hugin, I don't see a person having any advantage using their scroll wheel up or down for their melee. I was referring to players who use the scroll wheel as their attack on semi-auto weapons does give them an advantage because it changes the rate of fire.

MUCH agreed, there are far too many causes for black screenshots to ever to be able to prove it's a cheat. I think these white PBSS are in the same boat. However, these are the first white PBSS I have ever seen. I just wonder if the player has a solid white desktop image and this is a PBSS of it.

I, too, have my melee bound to my mouse wheel (click, not scroll). I just find that easier than searching for a key on the KB with my hand. I don't find that it gives me any advantage whatsoever. HOWEVER, just like most in here and at PsB, I find binding the scroll wheel (up & down) as your attack button does give you a huge advantage over people who have theirs set to their left or right mouse button (as normal). Using your scroll wheel makes the semi-auto weapons fire as fast as any fully-auto weapon. Therefore, my clan as well as the gaming organization I work for, we consider that a cheat. And Tabasco? There is a program called FUD Bind Kicker (From the PsB website) that can be set up to automatically kick players using such a key bind. The FUD Bind Kicker can be adjusted to kick or log anybody using any CVAR you want to keep off your servers. It's really a nice tool to have, and it causes no lag on the server. It's 3rd party software that you run remotely on your own PC. It also causes your PC no lag either....at least none that I have noticed on my machine. I simply see the FUD Bind Kicker as just 1 more line of defense against the cheating community which should rot in hell.

I took 6 SS of my folder and file structure on one of my server boxes for COD4. The 6 SS were taken of 2 COD4 servers being run out of 1 complete game install. SS 1 - Shows the contents of the /Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare folder. SS 2 - Shows the contents of the /Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare/main folder. SS 3 - Shows the contents of the /Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare/server_1 folder. SS 4 - Shows the contents of the /Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare/server_1/main folder. SS 5 - Shows the contents of the /Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare/server_2 folder. SS 6 - Shows the contents of the /Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare/server_2/main folder. I hope this makes things a little less confusing for you.

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No, you need the other .iwd files in the main folder otherwise the game will not run. But doing this saves much needed time in having to upload multiple copies of the game. It also saves on precious harddrive space on the server as well. But you MUST have at least 1 complete copy installed on the server for it to run properly. However, some of the .iwd files can be eliminated, but I have no clue as to which ones they would be so I just left them be as-is.

Actually it isn't necessary to have multiple instances of COD4 on the server to have multiple servers running. Below is what I do to have several servers running off one game installation: First, I am using FireDaemon to start my servers. 1. I installed 1 complete copy of the game into the COD4 Folder. 2. Then I created 2 more folders, Server_1 & Server_2 and placed them in my COD4 folder. 3. Inside Folder_1 (And Folder_2) I created main, mods, & pb folders. 4. Inside the main folder I have the following files: iw_12.iwd, server.cfg (and any other server config you are running) 5. Inside the mods folder I have the ModWarfare folder and any other mod folder I wish to run on server 1 (Or 2) 6. Inside the pb folder I have ALL necessary PB files to run a server with. Done.....that's as simple as that. This way both servers (I have 2 running off 1 installation) run.

LOL I agree. I just signed onto the TS and wanted to self register, so that option would be nice. As for that other info BaZ? It's probably a 3rd party software they use for tracking usage on the TS in case someone tries to hack into it. That's just MO though, as I don't know for sure.

I haven't seen any false positives on this #, therefore I believe this is a valid kick. I have seen people getting kicked for this recently, right after the latest PB update. It looks like a bunch of critters got busted.

Hey gang, Recently there has been a rash of script kiddies causing COD4 servers to crash by using certain DVARS in console. Apparently there is a very simple fix to this problem, and I HIGHLY recommend using this on your pub servers. There is no need to use it on your locked down match servers, as they are passworded and you have absolute control on who enters those. So here you go, please follow these simple, yet effective instructions: Hopefully this will make it MUCH MUCH harder for these punks to crash COD4 servers.

That's why it's VERY important to keep a backup copy of your COD4 profile. Keep it on a separate PC if you have to.

Private cheats are EB's, PBBans, PsB's, and our worst nightmare because unless EB gets a copy of the code there will likely never be anti-cheat code written into PB to counteract it. That's the problem with private cheats. That's also why it is imperative that we admins be so vigilant on our servers, always keeping our eyes our for cheating of any kind. PB may not catch some private cheats, but a demo will generally bust a cheater.

Actually the 1.1 or 1.2 patch fixed losing your rank when you went into a modded server.