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This evening I came across a weird problem relating to 1.32c / All seeing Eye and Punkbuster.

I use all seeing eye to connect to just about everything gamewise. Anyway I tried to connect to one of my usual RA3 haunts and Q3 launched and then just bummed out to the menu.. I was like wtf!! It's connected fine every day for the last god knows how long.

On checking the console I found this error:-

Punkbuster Client: Error: Failed to locate resource (A)
Punkbuster Client: Error: Failed to update cl_guid

I thought great just what I need. So I did the usual stuff:-

1) Reinstalled PB from scratch using PB setup ... no dice.
2) Deleted my q3key file ... and re-entered my key ... no dice.
3) Checked my ISP for issues ... no dice.

Scratching my head I went back to the 1.32 exe and hey presto it connected with no issues ... !!!

Hmmm. ... I thought, ok so what's changed since last night. I had a think and then it hit me ... I changed the way my player name appears in the game in my autoexec.cfg (which in itself caused no problem) but I had copied it into the player name field under the All Seeing Eye options games tab.

On checking .. sure enough I entered "^1Foralarx

I'd inadvertantly left the " at the start of the name in the field and not put a closing one in or removed them both. For some reason this only affects the 1.32c patch. Regardless of if it's a mod or straight VQ3 being played.

This stupid small mistake cost me hours of lost playtime. So thought I post about it, in case it happens to someone else.

Regards

Fora.

Thought I'd just share

very interesting - thanks for sharing this

nice of you to write that up.

1.32c is bugged

in ospca i kept getting a spike every minute, my fps went berserk and i couldnt straffe

back to 1.32 and no problems