fozzer

i see your server waiting to be added to the repository .. congratulations :) pm a staff member with your chosen username/password and clantag and your all set .. once streaming has been verified a forum upgrade will be applied. welcome aboard :)

i moderate the market garden section of the joltrtcw scene ..it buzz's like fook :P et section was never used till i dropped in ..its getting there though :)

not quite true ..the hack exe and dll are on the bannable items but the cfg was not on the bannable items ..i think this was due to how easy it is to download a cfg via a rogue server but not completely sure :)

its the cfg that comes with a particular multihack .. the hack exe and .dll are on our bannable list :)

http://www.pbbans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16984 all relevant info you will find there .. if you hit a snag contact a staff member via forum pm or you can get live support if you come to our irc channel - #pbbans on the quakenet network

do you have ftp access m8 ? :)

never take for granted that more = better .. a hell of a lot do ( like the members of other anti cheat sites :P ) any improvement will be hardly noticeable .. re forums ..aint got a clue .. but i can moderate them great :D

http://www.pbbans.com/mbi.php?action=5&ban_id=10485 .. of course your contributing :) from what i remember PB_SV_AutoUpdBan 1 is already part of your pbsv.cfg when you go to the mbi and click generate banlist ..it generates the most up to date banlist for that paticular game .. just download it to your desktop and add in any local bans you have in your own pbbans.dat then upload to your server (overwriting the one on there) pb_sv_restart- job done, thats the easiest way for you i think :)

afaik all jolt clanservers have this in their start file - +set com_hunkmegs 64 this is more than enough for anything you want to run: to check things out yourself you will need to download putty here click me and set it up as per instructions .. if you rent a jolt server the login is the same as your ftp login and pass. a how to use putty guide can be found here click me its sof2 specific but take a look and you will get the drift: the commands that you will use most often after you log in are: cat /proc/cpuinfo .... displays info re cpu cat /proc/meminfo .... displays info re memory ls .... lists the directory you are currently in ls -la .... lists all files and their permissions ps axu .....displays everything that is running % wise re cpu and memory ps x ..... shows what servers are running by server number kill xxxx ...... kills that specific server(xxxx = the server number) ./start_xxxx .... will restart the killed server (xxxx = the name of your start file) btw is your clan forum down ?

yep and whats worse is that its completely out of the server admins control .. i am considering running Jolt servers with pb_sv_AutoSs 0 untill i hear of something resembling normality appearing again .. first the cod2 fiasco which is still ongoing and now this .. its only the cheaters that are getting much fun out of gaming lately :( *** in fact i made it so .. pbss now disabled***

if the violations are logged, when the parser goes through the logs all will be added to the MBI ... has kicking been temporarily disabled by EB for FEAR too ?

could that be the file names :)

had a case just last week were this issue was resolved with .... a reboot :) the official line is this: I keep getting kicked by PunkBuster for "Blocked O/S Privileges"? Please temporarily disable other security type programs you have running such as anti-virus, process guard, SDProtector, etc. to find out which of them is blocking PB's access to resources on your computer. You either need to run PB without the blocking program(s) or play on non-PB servers. Also make sure you run the game under an Administrator or equivalent account under Windows. If you do have access an admin account, you can right click on the application you want to run and select "Run As". This will allow you to give admin access to that program and should allow you to play with a limited user. if you have gone through this then try deleting pbcl.db - pbcl.dll - pbag.dll - pbags.dll and running pbsetup afterwards .. some malaware can induce this problem so a full sweep of your system would be recommended too .. and if all that does not help you can try opening a trouble ticket here try to give as much info as possible and be prepared to wait for a response hope this helps you out m8 :)

quite the reverse m8 :) EB have the option to disable auto kicks at the master server end and normally apply this when a new update is released ..if all goes smoothly its not long before the auto kicking is re-enabled .. if things do not go smoothly it saves lotsa players getting kicked for nothing .. if you stop and think about it .. it makes sense .. normally if the auto kicking feature of PB has been disabled at the master server end you get a message from PB saying so :)

np m8 .. we are all in this together and its great to see our newer streaming admins seeing the benefits of streaming to PBBans and running PBBans recommended configs :)

if you have a decent adsl connection the correct rate setting is 25000 .. either select the correct connection details in the game profile options(options/system/networking), or when you join the server bring down the console and type /rate 25000 you will notice the vast improvement in gameplay immediately :)

whenever i set a server up i put in checks that cater for the majority of players :) a few years ago the majority were on dial up connections with 56k modems .. in a short space of time there has been a huge shift towards broadband .. so i always set the rate to reflect what would enhance gameplay for the majority of players who connect to a server that i run: ET specific Problems with choppy gameplay may be the result of not setting your connection speed when you create your profile. The connection defaults to ISDN, which is a rate of 5000. If your rate is set to something not appropriate for your connection, you'll get lag. If you're playing over a LAN or a DSL or cable modem, your rate should be set to 25000. pb_sv_cvar rate IN 2500 25000 Players using a setting below 2500 will be very jerky and possibly forcing warping or making themselves very hard to hit. 2500 is the default for 56k modems and really is very low, a 56k modemer should really try 3000 even on a poor 4kps connection to get better gameplay. Maybe more of an issue is scripts setup to change between rate settings, using a low setting while reloading to minimise weakness. 25000 is the upper limit as the Q3 code itself has a cap of 25000. A broad range of rate settings are therefore allowed to cover all those perfectly reasonable while not allowing those which are unnecessary. Clan-related organisations should consider 3000 at a minimum, or if you would rather have players who have at least an ISDN-equivalent connection, then 5000 should be the lower value, to allow some room for low-quality voice comms. 56k players can play fine (better!) with rate 3000, but on a public you cannot really expect these players to have a clue about changing the default connection settings by opening the console and typing in commands. Note another possible misuse of the connection settings is to make ping look very bad, in order to demand clanwar takes place on a server where they have an advantage, rather than the one best overall. at the end of the day its your choice as the server admin .. like i said when setting your server up - edit whatever you want to suit your regular players :P

hey Scar did you notice the :P after that pun i know you do your best m8 as does every cod2 admin atm .. just seems that IW/Activision and dare i say it evenbalance, seem to be dragging their heels on the cod2 linux issues

hey Foxhound how ya doing :) i would not worry about anyone who threatens to send in a demo to us .. first and foremost the server has to be streaming here for a demo or pbss to be admissable as evidence of a hack .. then the demo/pbss info has to be verified as untampered by stringent examination of streamed logs .. last but not least an experienced member of staff has to be 100% sure of a hack in use and verification obtained from other staff members before anything progresses .. in short, only the absolute certainties make it onto our master ban index :) The PBBans motto is "always quality over quantity" and the integrity of our banlist is something we take very seriously :) ..so if an actual hack has not been used,rest easy :P

does the admin of {VOD} not communicate anything to the members :P no resolves have been posted as of yet by IW/Activision .. lots of hot air and even the appointment of a community liason manager .. try to remember that cod2 is a vastly different kettle of fish compared to sof2 and rather than strike some llama with lightning or give a slap with a fish,the kick commands work great

a possible explanation may be that the reository refreshed while you had your server offline making cfg amendments .. normally if i set em up they stay streaming :P

:) i see your server in the repository waiting to be added ..pm me your chosen username /password and clantag and i will update the info .. your forum status is upgraded too welcome aboard

catching loads on cod2 atm but because of the 31 hexadecimal guid's all are worthless ..its high time whoever is responsible for fixing this problem got their arse into gear and sorted it :(

it see's the server: 209.160.40.206:1716:1717 Team KoK - Recruiting but the rcon features remain greyed out .. i have never seen this error before and from browsing the hlsw forum this is a one off .. it might be worth posting on the hlsw forums and see what turns up. does the normal admin features work via the game console ?

btw Bloodrunner .. you have a pbbans.dat that will contain all your bans and you have a pbsvuser.cfg that holds the md5 checks for known hacks .. the violation and cheat logs will self generate when a violation/cheat is detected :)