battlefield 2 - crash from punkbuster

[JoPh]

i just got bf2 from steam.. but when i go to games to play it kicks me out cause punk-buster says i have some illegal program driver..

is there anyway to find out whats causing this crash?

 

[Rakewell]

Any error messages?

 

[JoPh]

says something like

kicked.... illegal program/driver--- ill go back into the game and get it.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Try this:

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php

Download the windows version, unzip, run pbsetup.exe, select BF2 and then hit update games, that could be a way to solve it, can't say for sure, I hate punkbuster.

 

[JoPh]

Its says this

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Restriction: Disallowed Program/Driver [125083]
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[JoPh]

seems it steam issue...

this is the only workaround right now that i can find..

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




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seams they dont support the steam overlay chat or something..

 

[RavenSEAL]

Ok, I received a response from Punkbuster that solved my problem:

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Note #2: This kick is usually caused by one of the following progams 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

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

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I unchecked the "Enable Steam Community In-Game" checkbox, restarted, and I'm allowed to play BF2 without getting kicking with that error message. I hope this helps you guys. And I take back my comments about Punkbuster, I'm just not used to having software disrupt my activity based upon the other software I have operating.

- Robert

From EA's message board

 

[Fanatical Meat]

That used to happen to me every few month's google BF2 update punk buster

 

[minmaster]

yup evenbalance WON'T whitelist steam overlay and they're being assholes about it. i've seen the communication between evenbalance and steam/valve where they repeatedly asked nicely for the whitelisting and evenbalance guys are deliberately being asses. evenbalance is being very immature in this from what i can tell.

 

[Maximilian]

Punkbuster is a POS, it dosent like the steam overlay, CPU temp programs, anything that might be running in the background. Sucks.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Evenbalance is a horrible company, I don't know why EA keeps coming back to them...

 

[llee]

Maybe because PunkBuster kick's Steam when it comes to hack detection and enforcement. Just play MW2 and BC2 one after another. You'll be amazed.

 

[Anteaus]

Punkbuster was doing its job long before Steam came into the picture. Let's not hate on PB just because of compatibility issues with software that it was never originally designed to coexist with.

 

[frozentundra123456]

Punkbuster was doing its job long before Steam came into the picture. Let's not hate on PB just because of compatibility issues with software that it was never originally designed to coexist with.

yea, punkbuster was screwing up computers way before steam came into existance. I remember it took many hours to get my laptop running after trying to use punkbuster about 4 or 5 years ago.
And it still took several hours of searching the internet and downloading a modified file to get it to allow me to play BFBC2 just recently.
So obviously, you would have to put me in the punkbuster hater group.

 

[Anteaus]

yea, punkbuster was screwing up computers way before steam came into existance. I remember it took many hours to get my laptop running after trying to use punkbuster about 4 or 5 years ago.
And it still took several hours of searching the internet and downloading a modified file to get it to allow me to play BFBC2 just recently.
So obviously, you would have to put me in the punkbuster hater group.

Lol fair enough. The only PB problems I had were after 1.4 was released where the PB client kept getting updated but it wouldn't update the game files, but this was easily solved by manually installing PB. Since then I've always made a point to never trust the BF2 installer to properly install PB. Otherwise I've had no problems for the time I've owned the game since its release. It is unfortunate that people are having problems though.