Jump to content

PB Bug needs to be fixed

ViciousBloodust

By ViciousBloodust
in F.E.A.R

 Share

Recommended Posts

ViciousBloodust Rookie

ViciousBloodust

Posted
Posted (edited)

Along with myself I've seen/talked with a lot of people that have beened kicked today in FEAR(not banned). With either the Disallowed Driver error, or PunkbusterA or PunkbusterB non-communication message. As far as I knew, I thought Punkbuster A/B was present only in BF2 or 2142 (I forgot which one). But when I got kicked the first time it was for Disallowed Driver error in which case I reverted back to the old(original) nvidia driver which would be 97.92, prior to that moment I was running a BETA 162.18(required to keep Lost Planet from Freezing on XP). After reverting back to the original driver for my hardware I was kicked again, however this time, PunkbusterB(which I also was under the impression that it ran just as a service aside PunkbusterA), poped up with an Error/crash/technical notification. At first I thought it was my comp. so I reformatted COMPLETELY, just to find out it was a waste of time and effort. Because other people were starting to get kicked for it. I really think this issue needs to be addressed soon, cause I'm also noticing, slight & quick freezing(before and after the reformat). My tech level is extremely high, so I know this is not my system and I only chose to reformat instead of trying to trickle it down to the source of the error to save time. I think it has more to do with the new PB release(1.716) that was released 07-13-07.

 

I have tested this on FEAR(retail), Combat, & Co-Op (all updated of course, and even tried manually updating with PB updater). To no avail the same issue arises on all of them.

Edited by ViciousBloodust
Olde Phart Apprentice

Olde Phart

Posted
Posted

I share your pain. I've since turned off PB on my Coop server.

Anyone who cheats in Coop is only cheating themselves. Of course, if I witness a player cheating, I'll just ban them.

:o :o :o :o :o

Posted Image

:blink: :blink: :blink: :blink:

5chaap2k Experienced

5chaap2k

Posted
Posted

Currently the latest version of PB does not work with the Coopwarfare mod! regular fear and combat are just fine

I you are having problems with regular fear see my other post or this one:

http://games.xs4all.nl/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3762

 

I am in conv. with evenbalance about the problems with Coopwarfare because it seems that none of the pb servers are accessable atm.

 

Coopplayers and coop admins feel free to open up a TT at evenbalance!

ViciousBloodust Rookie

ViciousBloodust

Posted
  • Author
Posted (edited)
  5chaap2k said:

Currently the latest version of PB does not work with the Coopwarfare mod! regular fear and combat are just fine

I you are having problems with regular fear see my other post or this one:

http://games.xs4all.nl/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3762

 

I am in conv. with evenbalance about the problems with Coopwarfare because it seems that none of the pb servers are accessable atm.

 

Coopplayers and coop admins feel free to open up a TT at evenbalance!

Yes, I have tried those methods already, and none of them fixes the issue, today, unlike yesterday I am receiving the disallowed Program/Driver error again(after runnning pbsvc.exe), I submitted a trouble ticket today too. However the issue is just not isolated to Co-Op, as I posted earlier, I've ran all previously posted versions of F.E.A.R. with same/similair results. In some cases it was Punkbuster A/B error or Disallowed Program/Driver error. When running the pbsvc.exe link you supplied, everything installed fine and had no errors in tests.

 

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

Edited by AcE
Spoiler tags added.
5chaap2k Experienced

5chaap2k

Posted
Posted

i cant play either :)

and not only me. open up a TT and wait for a response..

Agent_H Collaborator

Agent_H

Posted
Posted

I grew weary of messing with my box so I just did a clean install. 10 minutes and pb updated and all is fine.

 

So last resort- find yer disk and reinstall.

 

I don't like the idea that 5chaap can't play... :o

(A.S.S)Banshee Enthusiast

(A.S.S)Banshee

Posted
Posted

Theres an easy fix...Reboot your machine after it kicks you...it will finish the install of the update and you shouldnt have anymore probs :D ....Hopefully

5chaap2k Experienced

5chaap2k

Posted
Posted

reboot didnt fix anything here i even reinstalled the game and PB a few times

_TyIzaeL_ Enthusiast

_TyIzaeL_

Posted
Posted

We need to get everyone with these problems (everyone) to submit a Trouble Ticket to EvenBalance about it. My guess is that they will act sluggishly unless we pester them a bit.

5chaap2k Experienced

5chaap2k

Posted
Posted

the problems seem te be fixed here? *knocks on wood*

i gues they fixed the typo that made the module look corrupted :D

ViciousBloodust Rookie

ViciousBloodust

Posted
  • Author
Posted

LOL guys @ "re-install" :lol: , I said in my first post I COMPLETELY formatted the system, completely wiping out XP & Vista (with full format/burn-in* options on each drive for each OS) & reinstalling both OS's. I dunno, sooner or later I'll figure it out or they'll respond to my trouble ticket.

 

*burn-in my word for deep formatting by turning all data to 1's making it unrecoverable by any method

 

But like I said earlier too, I been seeing it happen on other servers to other people as well, however I did notice sometimes it doesn't happen for a map or two, but always kicks somewhere around the last 1-10 mins of the round, I dunno if this was just coincidental or not.

 

I appreciate all the help though guys.

5chaap2k Experienced

5chaap2k

Posted
Posted

what is the exact kickmessage u are getting?

 

you can find some logs from the new services in:

c:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\PunkBuster\

 

be aware if posting them that this area is a public forum. so either strip out confidental information or just paste the parts that u find relevant :)

ViciousBloodust Rookie

ViciousBloodust

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Let's see the first Error I got was Disallowed Program/Driver, my best guess at that moment was it was the BETA Nvidia 168.18 so I then dropped back to version 97.92. After reverting back to a public driver I then started getting the PunkbusterA & B message (in which case when PunkbusterB failed it actually set off dwwin.exe with crash notification) Olde Phart posted a pic of the error a # of posts up. The most common I've seen other people kicked for is the PunkbusterA error.

 

These are from the logs you mentioned.

 

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

OK I see something they may be an issue. Under the PBSVC log, I have put them in bold and underlined them. That can't be the right address can it? Looks more like a gateway address, even if my computer is on a router, with a gateway in front of the router, meaning modem connected to server, server connected to router, and router to all my other pc's.

5chaap2k Experienced

5chaap2k

Posted
Posted

Logs look just fine..

 

Check if security software on your computer isnt blocking the PBservices access to internet/system

 

Virusscan / personal firewall softare, etc.

 

hardware routers should not be a problem! :)

 

try manually updating PB for fear. using PBSetup but do notice when adding the game in pbsetup, to point it to your fear user directory and not the main game dir :)

ViciousBloodust Rookie

ViciousBloodust

Posted
  • Author
Posted (edited)

Just tried all those things including allowing the services on the gaming machine & my web server. Still no change, submitted my first TT on 07-13-07 still no answer from evenbalance, nor any answer from my second ticket on 07-14-07. Just been playing Lost Planet in the meantime, however I hope I won't get these issues when I play BF2, 2142, COD2, Prey, R6 Vegas, Quake 4, and America's Army. Since I've reformatted I haven't reinstalled any of those games yet. :(

Edited by ViciousBloodust
CaNNon Community Regular

CaNNon

Posted
Posted
  ViciousBloodust said:

Just tried all those things including allowing the services on the gaming machine & my web server. Still no change, submitted my first TT on 07-13-07 still no answer from evenbalance, nor any answer from my second ticket on 07-14-07. Just been playing Lost Planet in the meantime, however I hope I won't get these issues when I play BF2, 2142, COD2, Prey, R6 Vegas, Quake 4, and America's Army. Since I've reformatted I haven't reinstalled any of those games yet. :(

That may well happen, from what i've read looks like it will be the same a + b file for all your pb games.

ViciousBloodust Rookie

ViciousBloodust

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Has anyone recieved a reply from evenbalance about this yet?

Guy0510 Explorer

Guy0510

Posted
Posted

I'm getting frequent, "This program has performed an illegal operation.... for PBA". Fear stays open but it bring up my desktop to send the report to Microsoft. I've always closed FEAR after that 'cause I didn't want to take any chances.

ViciousBloodust Rookie

ViciousBloodust

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Another ploy to encourage people to buy Vista or a glitch like Lost Planet requires nvidia Beta 162.18 driver to run on XP without freezing or how voice chat in Yahoo public chatrooms works on XP but not on Vista?

 

Ok, so on XP Media Center 2005(Which is by all means XP Pro) I have these issues, however out of the blue today, I booted into my Vista partition, ran F.E.A.R. Combat, and everything was fine, even ran the Vista Beta nvidia driver 162.22(and if you are running an 8xxx series card, I recommend this driver, as it is faster and they have fixed the digital vibrance greyed out issue, still needs to have image sharpening enable but I figure that will be in the next beta) without any issues. I have noticed that with a lot of programs though, when they fine tune it for Vista when it was originally made for XP, it's usually not 100% compatible anymore and it's 50/50 in which version will end up being buggy. In which case, as I look it over, I feel the file structure of some of the more major directories is much different from previous Windows versions (from Win ME & up) is a major contributor to those issues. And I'm starting to come to the conclusion that, that is where they went wrong. The larger majority of people I have talked to encountering these issues, have been running XP.

 

Anyway, still no word from evenbalance first ticket was sent 07-13-07 and second 07-14-07 and today it is now 07-23-07 -06:00 G.M.T.. Runs fine on Vista for me, but God I hate using Vista.

5chaap2k Experienced

5chaap2k

Posted
Posted

i have a ticket with a last response at: 07/14/2007 and still i do know they're doing their best to fix this :) (CoopWarfare mod cant run PB)

 

Just be patient, dont keep creating new tickets, just add a note to your current one..

ViciousBloodust Rookie

ViciousBloodust

Posted
  • Author
Posted

LOL, was just being sarcastic with the Vista ploy idea. Trying to make the uber net junkies more paranoid...but the CIA has you under surveillance, and the FBI has stolen your socks for evidence! :doomed:

  • 3 weeks later...
Guy0510 Explorer

Guy0510

Posted
Posted
  Guy0510 said:

I'm getting frequent, "This program has performed an illegal operation.... for PBA". Fear stays open but it bring up my desktop to send the report to Microsoft. I've always closed FEAR after that 'cause I didn't want to take any chances.

Windows XP Pro fully updated. Most recent drivers off all hardware are installed.
5chaap2k Experienced

5chaap2k

Posted
Posted

i get that to from time to time.. after a reboot and it doesnt happen anymore :)

but this is offtopic here. this thread was about CoopWarfare wich currently cant be played with PB and probably never will be :)

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
 Share
Go to topic listing
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use.

  I accept