JohnP Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Hi allI recently purchased BF4 Premium on PC. I’ve been playing for a few weeks now and have been chatting in the battlelog forums. I’ve read a few posts around being banned and kicked from games for software running in the background. I use a few different programs but none that should interfere with the running of games. However I did find a few posts around people being kicked for having AutoHotKey, but this was in BF3. I use AHK and always have it running in the background. I use it for various tasks to make things quicker whilst using Windows. For example swapping between my system sounds e.g headphones and speakers, shorten URLs with a shortcut key and a few other key remaps. So far I haven’t been kicked/banned but obviously I do not want this to happen going forward. My question is, is it ok to have this running in the background whilst playing BF4? Is it like BF3 where I could potentially get kicked or even banned?Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipes1 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 you could get kciked for it as a disallowed program/driver and EB may even ban for it. We simple don't know what EB will do as pbbans is a private third party site with not affiliation to punkbuster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnP Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 you could get kciked for it as a disallowed program/driver and EB may even ban for it. We simple don't know what EB will do as pbbans is a private third party site with not affiliation to punkbuster Cheers. I understand pbbans is a third party. I just thought i'd get some opinions. I've raised a ticket with EB asking the same question. I'll post back the response when I hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singh400 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 you could get kciked for it as a disallowed program/driver and EB may even ban for it.Source? The only time you will get kicked for it, is if the server in questions has pb_sv_restrictions set to 2. You will not get banned for using it. You might however get caught up in a ban wave, as AHK is often flagged, but usually a false positive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnP Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 Ok thanks. I've heard nothing back from EB just yet. It'll probably be best if I just disable AHK whilst playing BF4. I don't want to get caught up in any sort of ban wave as you say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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