wraithwingus

Yep, from what I gather most hacks turn off and produce a clean ss or they just send back a black one. For that reason I decided that looking at screen shots was a waste of time and bandwith and turned them off. That and I was getting about 60% of my screen shots back as black or some crazy wall paper. It was either that or I start banning for people for bad screen shots. I am sure someone will take issue with that but hoenstly i never saw one screenshot that looked like a hack in cod4....

I think the end point here is this. It is up to each admin what he/she wants to enforce this as a cheat or not. On the servers I run the knife attack isnt considered a cheat if bound on the scroll but if you installed a script for burst fire it would be. As far as I am concered this topic has been around far to long for them (the game dev's), not to have noticed.

I have heard of a few bugs like this. Here are the bugs that I have heard of but I have no clue on how to reproduce them. I would rather think of these as game exploits and is a bannable offense on my servers. - Player gets shot and seems to die but no one gets credit for the kill. Said player also seems to unlimited uav/airstrike/heli - The player model becomes invisable until he does get killed. - Player can not be killed. even if 5 people shoot him in the head at once. - Player seems to have unlimited airstrikes even though he has a score something like 10-50 I am pretty sure all of the above have been reported to IW. Still yet you should get your servers streaming :)

I had those like that before and changed them today.

Good idea... pbsv.cfg.. ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; General Settings ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- pb_sv_MsgPrefix "^5PunkBuster Server" pb_sv_MaxDlRate 4 pb_sv_MaxConDls 6 pb_sv_MaxSendRate 8 pb_sv_CQC 1 pb_sv_Sleep 83 pb_sv_DupNameGrace 0 pb_sv_ExtChar 1 pb_sv_RconReload 0 pb_sv_LogSync 1 pb_sv_AutoUpdBan 1 pb_sv_GuidRelax 4 ; ----------------------- ; Other Settings ; ----------------------- pb_sv_Restrictions 1 pb_sv_EmptyName 0 pb_sv_LogFloor 1 pb_sv_MinName 0 pb_sv_MaxName 0 pb_sv_LanMask "" pb_sv_Lan 0 pb_sv_ChangePeriod 300 pb_sv_ChangeMax 5 ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Kick Settings ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- pb_sv_KickLen 5 pb_sv_ScoreKick 0 pb_sv_UpdateGrace 2400 pb_sv_NoGuidGrace 10 ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Power Point Settings ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- pb_sv_PowerMin 20 pb_sv_PowerDef 1 pb_sv_PowerKickLen 15 ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Power Point Rcon Settings ; These are the allowed commands that can be run if the user has the min score to do so. ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; [For Trusted players] PB_SV_RCon 15 PB_SV_GetSs PB_SV_RCon 15 PB_SV_PList ; [basic] PB_SV_RCon 25 pb_sv_kick ; [intermediate] PB_SV_RCon 50 map pb_sv_rcon 50 pb_sv_say pb_sv_rcon 50 map_restart pb_sv_rcon 50 gametype ; [Advanced] PB_SV_RCon 75 pb_sv_ban pb_sv_rcon 75 pb_sv_badname ; [Full Access] ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; List of Power Guid's for Power Point Rcon ; pb_sv_powerguid [GUID] XX [Player_Name(optional)] ;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; [For Trusted players] ; [basic] ; [intermediate] ; [Advanced] ; [Full Access] ; ------------------ ; PBSS Settings ; ------------------ pb_sv_AutoSs 1 pb_sv_SsFloor 1 pb_sv_SsCeiling 2000 pb_sv_AutoSsFrom 60 pb_sv_AutoSsTo 600 pb_sv_SsCmd "" pb_sv_SsWidth 800 pb_sv_SsHeight 600 pb_sv_SsXpct 50 pb_sv_SsYpct 50 pb_sv_SsSrate 2 pb_sv_SsDelay 10 pb_sv_SsPath "" pb_sv_ssLogging 3 pb_sv_ssTimeout 0 ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Web Tool Settings ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- pb_sv_HttpPort pb_sv_HttpAddr "" pb_sv_HttpKey "HA! yeah right ;)" pb_sv_HttpRefresh 30 pb_sv_HttpMaps "" pb_sv_HttpMapsPath "" pb_sv_HttpColText1 "FFFFFF" pb_sv_HttpColText2 "0000FF" pb_sv_HttpColBack1 "000000" pb_sv_HttpColBack2 "808080" pb_sv_HttpColLine1 "FF0000" pb_sv_HttpColLine2 "0000FF" pb_sv_HttpColMsg "FF0000" pb_sv_HttpShowGuid 0 ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Badname List (pb_sv_badname [grace_period_secs] [disallowed text]) ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- pb_sv_badnameempty ;pb_sv_badname 10 server // Sample ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; IP Guard ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ;pb_sv_ipguard 128.0.0.1 // Sample ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; PB UCON Settings / Lists ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- pb_sv_usessionlimit 8 pb_sv_ucontimeout 90 pb_sv_uconempty pb_sv_uconignoreempty

Ah, this might explain it. I'll turn off the auto screen shots and see how that goes. Thanks.

Gentlemen, i have noticed a fair amount of lag on my 12 man server and I am trying to get to the bottem of the problem. After putting in a trouble ticket on the problem I have gotten back that PB can be causing my server lag. Is this true? If so what are the common settings that can cause lag? I can post the configs if needed.

hmm i think i understand what you mean. The clan tag we use was taken and I was trying to setup something so that we could stream. what should I put in if our tag is already in use?

:huh: What details?

I read that :( I put in for an account but I havnet heard anything. I also have this line in my PB configs pb_sv_uconadd 1 64.27.21.46 "pbbanshub" "pbbanshub"

I am trying to figure out why my server is showing as not streaming on http://www.pbbans.com/msi.php The server ip address is 4.79.145.87:28960 I issue the command pb_sv_uconlist and I see this.... ^5PunkBuster Server: [slot] [Type] [Mask] [Name] ^5PunkBuster Server: 1 1 64.27.21.46 pbbanshub ^5PunkBuster Server: End of PB UCON Profile List (1 Entry) I cant figure out why I am not showing up as streaming...

good to know. Thanks for the info.

I have since read on a few places that md5 checks are pretty much useless in cod4 anyhow. I just removed those lines. They seem to be nothing but trouble anyhow.

I pulled my logs this monring and i noticed some MD5 check errors. The frist error is this [01.31.2008 22:14:58] VIOLATION (IGNORING QUERIES) #9013: <user name removed> (slot #5) Ignoring MD5Tool Queries [<GUID Removed>(VALID) 68.193.18.167:28960] Why would PB ignore this request? Shouldnt it have just kicked the player? The second error is this [01.29.2008 22:42:22] VIOLATION (MD5TOOL) #9002: <user name removed> (slot #5) MD5Tool Mismatch: Mods/ModWarfare/z_modwarfare.iwd (len=2048) [<GUID Removed>(VALID) 75.108.39.125:28960] Why would the mods folder need to be checked? and what would cause this check to fail?

Sweet. I'll setup the public streamming tonight then. thanks for the info We made three attempts to get PB running on it. Most of the time there were key packet losses, we figured that was due to people being on wireless internet connections. We are going to shut down the cod2 server in a few months when the year contract is up. Most of our admins now play on the cod4 servers so we just dont have the staff to watch over it anymore. The logs might still be on the server so I'll see if I can pull them.

Thanks for the quick replys. :D How do I get the streaming status? I read the faq's and I did apply for something before the 2nd attack. I want to review the md5 checks and the cvar checks but it says I am not worthy. What happens if someone gets kicked for a non-cheat releated cvar? is that then stream as a global ban? Here is my concern. In the cod2 world we had lots of problems with punkbuster kicking for simple things that we were never able to figure out. Those problems seem to be gone in cod4 but its rather hard to pick out cheaters in it because you can shoot through walls, uav, and a short kill cam. I want to do everything I can to prevent cheating but I am worried that by doing so non-cheaters will be banned. Also, are my local bans streamed? We ban for extreme foul langauge and racists remarks. I want to make sure they dont get a global ban :)

I figure i might take some heat for posting this but there are some things about streaming that I just dont get. I am rather new and I am not geek enough to understand all the terms and stuff. I have read the FAQ's and since i am only goign to stream my COD4 server i figure this was the best place to post my qestions. When I start streaming, I realize i am pulling information such as ban list and stuff but what else do I get? Does this information get written to my config files? if so where? Do you need my rcon password to stream to my server? what information is looked for in the logs i send? how do I make sure that simple errors do not cause my clan member or regulars to be banned? I put in a application to get the streaming setup but since then the sight has been down. Is there a eta on when I might get a response? Thanks for your time.