Causes issues with Promod (unable to tab out of game, just displays Windows cursor over game) if you start the it with Playclaw running, but ok if you load it after you've loaded the mod.
I bought a license for it some time in 2010 / 2.X branch, not had to pay any more for new versions since then including the latest 4.X.
Having TS open on another machine is not really a solution if you scrim, same with the iPhone (Android version in free by the way).
My primary reason for buying it was the TS overlay and that's not changed a huge deal over the last few major versions so can't comment if it's better in other aspects. The 3.x in game would often become unresponsive for me meaning I had to tab out and kill the process to get back to game.
The fact this is a Far Cry 3 thread and you're trying to steer the conversation in a completely off-topic direction would be the derailment. Feel free to ask in a relevant thread or create your own.
Windows 8 (despite being in RTM stage) is still considered non-release/beta to Evenbalance who have said on many occasions they do not support beta operating systems. You may have to wait a little while to get full support.
I personally downloaded my ban list, ran a regex to extract the IP's then ran them through a geo lookup. From 1000 bans on my cod4 server I found Russia, Germany then Poland to be source of the of most bans accounting for around 52% between them.
Add a "heartbeat" to your pbsv.cfg and restart punkbuster, something like
pb_sv_task 0 1800 pb_sv_ver
Sometimes streaming can drop if your server is empty for long periods, this should overcome that.
Yeah I get like a white noise in the background when I use that, counteracts the tinnitus but better the devil you know (and have learned to live with).