RivaTuner and Battlefield 2142 PunkBuster

Thats excellent news. I wonder if this might help if there are any other compatibility issues with other PB games

 

Awesome! Good news man, please keep us posted. I think this will be a benefit for both sides since alot of people play PB protected games and use RT. Look forward to seeing what happens.

 

Well that's good news. I think it's funny how I started the original thread on this issue, and everyone thought I was nuts. Now look how far it has gotten!!

Glad it's in the process of being fixed.

 

Yes Tipton, people said i was crazy too. I took Unwinders advice and dont use RT anymore. I loved it and hope that I can get back to using it again soon. You stuck with it and I had given up and moved on. Good job to all and again thanks Unwinder for keeping us informed and trying to figure it out.
PB/Evenbalance has had more pains than just this item, maybe they really are listening?

 

I summited a ticket to PunkBuster about the problems with RT and PB and they actually replied....

07/21/2007 08:35:55 - "Glenn Courington"
Note #2: I apologize for the delay in a response.
We are aware of the issue, and we are working to see if this can be alleviated.
06/22/2007 21:24:38 - "Dingchow"
Note #1: Ticket submitted to support staff.


Does not provide a fix but they are aware.

 

I dont know how experienced i would say i am with RT but i could give it a test spin in 2142.

 

Might want to see if you can find anyone with any of the games (and RT of course) from this list,

http://www.evenbalance.com/

that are running client version 1.7xx (F.E.A.R. is one of them) and see if any of them are experiencing the same thing.

I would help if I could but I flat out refuse to install any game using Punkbuster that requires their new services (PnkBstrA and PnkBstrB) and driver (PnkBstrK.sys). Lets just say that based on past experience with PB updates (couple of years ago they caused all kinds of problems for Audigy users, and took over 6 months to fix) I wouldn't trust them to code their way out of a paper bag.

 

Hm... I installed BF2142 three days ago and i played it 11 hours online (3-4 hours a day) without any issue ... i am using rivatuner 2.02 on xp sp2 pro with fan fixed to 80%. I used pb command i know from Joing Operations Typhoon Rising " pb_security 0 " nothing else. Or maybe i can expect problem to rise in time ?

 

Yes .. and in 13 hours of playing i had 2-3 punkbuster.exe errors (ilegal operations). I had lot of server switchings when pb crashed (play one for few minutes then exit and enter another one ... ) but i had no game freezings and i could continue game after close and enter again.

 

I would glady test it beta 2.03 for u. we need to get to the bottom of this.
I'm already in your beta testing database.

Also, is it possibly to add a option in the install to disable or enable various hardware scanning nethod? Or maybe a simply tab switch. Many people don't know about the power user setting or are simply to afraid to go into it.

 

Doesn't this command line just somply disable pb? 0=off and 1=on?
Thats y your game doesn't crash.

I can never play BF2142 and have RT open at the same time.

I'm using Vista32.