Game is crashing from punkBuster! wtf

Post by **SHockTheMonkey** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:49 pm

OK, every time I install "pbsvnew.dll" It begins to boot up to a gray screen, then crashes.

Any one know what i might be able to do, I need Pb because no servers will allow me in with out it

Post by **Foo** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:04 pm

First of all, pbsvnew is for a server installation, not the client. Why are you installing that file?

Second, can you give us a few extra details such as the version of Q3 you are running.

Cheers.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:08 pm

Peter Gabriel rules.

Post by **SHockTheMonkey** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:44 pm

1.32 point release is the version I am running.

I recently formatted my pc, and that was the pb update I ahd gotten to keep from being booted from servers, before I formatted.

Now it only freezes when its installed. Maybe you could tell me what I SHOULD be using instead of that pb file.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:08 pm

re-install 1.32. it's just like any other installer. you don't need to know or care what .dll's are in there. but as that guy foo said, that .dll you have 's for server-side.

Post by **Foo** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:37 pm

SHock:
First, try deleting the \pb\ folder, and that DLL, and then re-installing punkbuster (it's part of the 1.32 patch so just install that patch over the top again).

If that doesn't fix it, try the below:
1. Locate your Quake 3 folder (should be c:\program files\quake iii arena\)
2. Delete everything in the folder except for quake3.exe and the \baseq3\ folder
3. Enter the \baseq3 folder and delete everything except files that end in .CFG and .PK3
4. Install 1.32 again

If that *still* doesn't fix it then.. are you sure your firewall is configured correctly to allow Q3 traffic? Lockups at the start used to mean a firewall blocking traffic but I was fairly sure that became obsolete with 1.32.

Post by **^misantropia^** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:46 am

PB has been known to crash computers with flaky hardware (only on Windows, Linux and Mac users don't seem to have this problem). Do the lockups occur in other PB games as well?

Post by **SHockTheMonkey** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:56 am

this seems to be the only game that does it with PB. But I did all of what you guys said, but my problem is now that no servers let me stay, I get kicked with this message -

"You have been kicked via punkbuster this PBserver requires (A1353 c1.206) error Loading Pbag."

I have port forwarding allowed for this game and it wont auto update.

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:00 am

SHockTheMonkey wrote:this seems to be the only game that does it with PB. But I did all of what you guys said, but my problem is now that no servers let me stay, I get kicked with this message -

"You have been kicked via punkbuster this PBserver requires (A1353 c1.206) error Loading Pbag."

I have port forwarding allowed for this game and it wont auto update.

so why dont you just manually update it ? :icon27:

Post by **Foo** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:43 am

SHockTheMonkey wrote:this seems to be the only game that does it with PB. But I did all of what you guys said, but my problem is now that no servers let me stay, I get kicked with this message -

"You have been kicked via punkbuster this PBserver requires (A1353 c1.206) error Loading Pbag."

I have port forwarding allowed for this game and it wont auto update.

That's alright, at least the game is loading now.

Read this page: http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=updatepb.php

The utility 'pbweb' should update the game for you (and I find once it's updated once, it updates itself from that point on). Just drop pbweb.exe into the pb folder and run it.

Post by **SHockTheMonkey** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:31 am

Did the PBWEB thing long ago, I still get that pb error message I wrote out before.

I'll keep messin with it. It's strange, I think it could have something to do with my router, but In my router setting on "port forwarding," It has an option for Quake 3 already in there for me, I selected that, does Pb access another port than Quake does? Do I need to open another port?

By the way, thanks for taking the time to help me out fellas, I really appreciate it.

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:39 am

SHockTheMonkey wrote:Did the PBWEB thing long ago, I still get that pb error message I wrote out before.

I'll keep messin with it. It's strange, I think it could have something to do with my router, but In my router setting on "port forwarding," It has an option for Quake 3 already in there for me, I selected that, does Pb access another port than Quake does? Do I need to open another port?

By the way, thanks for taking the time to help me out fellas, I really appreciate it.

Do you have windows XP firewall blocking the program maybe ? :icon27:

Post by **SHockTheMonkey** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:55 am

how do i check

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:29 am

SHockTheMonkey wrote:how do i check

start --> settings-->control panel-->windows firewall-->exceptions tab-->make sure quake 3 is listed if not add it

Post by **SHockTheMonkey** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 5:40 am

Tired everything you guys said and still I'm still getting the same error, it wont connect to pb and update. Any other ideas except that pb is jsut really worthless (to me)?

Post by **Tormentius** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:15 pm

Have you tried manually downloading the .htm files from PB's site to update it? Its an uglier solution but maybe it will fix your problem. Here's the link.