Rod74x

Thanks for your reply fozzer it sure sounds a lot better than just "empathy" ;), so far the NVIDIA people limit themselves to write things like we will have a new driver next week or just a new driver has been released. It gets frustrating, probably that's why one end up looking for information elsewhere. At least now we know that this particular PB kick is not related to PB at all and that will help people reading this forum as well. Cheers

I thought the main point here was to share information about this issue and try to find out how to fix it, as you suggested before this is an issue with NVIDIA which has been giving us plenty of empathy lately. I guess if you were having the same problem and spent 700 bucks of your own money on a laptop you will also be looking for answers in more than one forum to get your problem fixed.

I have a ticket open with EB for a while now, this is the answer I received from them: This is an issue with the nVidia drivers themselves, possibly in conjunction with your particular hardware (notebook/laptop). Even Balance does not allow multiple Direct3D DLLs to be running when playing on a PunkBuster-enabled server. This has been the case for quite some time. You will be able to play if you revert to an old graphics driver (< v200.00), play on PB servers without restriction kicks or on servers without PB. I'm sorry, but this will need to be addressed by nVidia. As far as we know nVidia is about to fix this in an upcoming driver release (see below). Please note: There are drivers available which may fix this problem. Read through the page carefully before using those drivers. Also check if those are still the latest available drivers: 32bit and 64bit drivers. Please report back if those drivers fixed the issue for you. Thanks! And also ... This kick can also be caused by one of the following programs running. Disabling them should stop the kick. Ventrilo Chat Overlay Team Speak Overlay DxTweaker ATI Tray Tools (depends on version) Game Accelerator (uninstall, then reboot) Mumble Overlay EVGA Precision tool IZ3D Pando Media Booster In case you run Steam, please do the following: * Open Steam * Go to File-Settings * Go to the tab in-game * Uncheck the "Enable Steam Community In-Game" checkbox * Press OK * Restart Steam If you do not have any of these programs running, open this ticket back up and state what you do have running, especially anything that might be similar to the above. I hope this info help any of you guys having the same problem, it did not work for me.

Hi people, Not sure if I'm posting this in the right section, sorry if I missed that. I just bought a new laptop with Win7 64 bit with more than enough hw to handle COD4 for some reason I keep getting kicked out of any COD4 server with this error message: Punkbuster kicked player 'xxxxxxx'(for 0 minutes) ... RESTRICTION:Disallowed Program/Driver [125089] I've been looking for info in Google and tried every possible suggestion on how to fix this glitch with no luck Drivers are updated, Steam in-game disabled, shut down any other additional app while running the game, ports opened in my router although it is configured as UPnP, PB updated and running while using COD4 but the problem remains, I can only stay connected for a minute or so and then I get kicked out. I'd appreciate any help or suggestions you guys may have to solve this frustrating problem. Thanks.