Punkbuster problems (oh no!)

[Gubaru.jp]

Hello,

I'm happy to say I just got a new desktop computer with pretty good specs, so no more crying in front of my ageing video card when playing Ramelle!
BUT
I get kicked by the server because of Punkbuster.
I did my homework, searched the forums, and nothing seems to work...

Here is what I tried so far:
- disabled my McAfee firewall
- downloaded pbsvc, uninstalled Pkbuster, rebooted and reinstalled it
- ran pbsetup, added BF2 and updated the files.

Unfortunately, when I run the Pkbuster diagnosis tool, it doesn't seem to find PkBstrA.exe nor PkBstrB.exe. Somehow they fail to install it seems to me.

Any ideas?

Config: Intel i7-950, Windows Pro 64bits, GTX 470. Thanks for your advice!

[bexx]

Hi Gubaru,

easiest solution should be to create a real admin-account. Log in to your admin-account and reinstall the game from there and play it from there.
Hope that helps out.

reg.
Bexx

[Gubaru.jp]

Well thank you,
But I am the only user on my computer, hence with full admin rights...
I just don't understand what is wrong with this motherf@@king punkbuster.

[bexx]

There is Admin and Admin.
Means the Admin in the admin-account is kinda super root.
Often if you install software, even with admin rights, windows forgets to install some files.
Try it like i said above and you should be happy.

[Gubaru.jp]

It might sound like a dumb question, but I just went into the account managing folder of Windows and my account is admin. So what am I supposed to do? Create another admin account?

Anyway thanks for the advice. I hope someone offers an alternative that doesn't require reinstalling everything.

Cheers!

[$kinny Norri$]

Hey Gubaru, hope you're fine in the land of rising sun and nasty gaming-times !

As you told you did all the pb-s***t possible, one stupid but years.old experience says: maybe it's gonna work tomorrow though you don't know why, happend to me sometimes 

another strange thing that happened to me once, starting with pb-kicks (ending up in the state i couldn't even connect to EA-server) was cuz my ports had suddenly changed ... hm, can't really believe that's your problem, but you may try out: go to network-environment, "hide" the UPnP-symbols (what closes the firewall-port) and reactivate it ...

It's like Fred Flintstone says "press the button and it moves, dunno why", but ...

[M00SE]

i've PMed you with some info

[Gubaru.jp]

Ok guys, Moose just gave me the trick and it worked. Thank you!
I'm posting the procedure here in case it can help other players:

Install procedure for FH2 on windows 7.

1. Disable UAC on Win7 and reboot your PC.
2. Insert BF2 DVD, close anything that auto runs and then view contents of DVD, right click Setup.exe and select Run as Admin. Notice you do not get prompted to confirm Admin Rights as UAC is turned off.
3. Follow installation instructions to install BF2, if your installation appears to hang after setting up the VoIP settings and before the installation of Gamespy*, open the task manager->processes, find BF2VoiceSetup.exe, right click and select end process - NOT END PROCESS TREE!
4. Reboot to finish installation of BF2.
5. Once restarted patch to version 1.41 by right clicking the patch and select run as admin, restart after patching to 1.41.
6. Once restarted patch to version 1.5 by right clicking patch 1.5 and select run as admin.
7. Once restarted install FH2 2.3 by right clicking the fh2 .exe and select run as admin.
8. Download PBSetup.exe from punkbuster (evenbalance.com) to manually update BF2.
9. Once everything is installed and patched and Punkbuster is also updated right click on the FH2 shortcut and select properties. Open compatibility tab and then select run as admin. Click Ok.

[M00SE]

Magnus sent it over to me so he should get the credit for this....

I'm glad that it worked for you, I know it saved me a lot of trouble, and it only took me 30 mins to get it all installed and up and running.