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[Chuckun]

This is the support topic for the tutorial How to get a new ETKey / GUID since PB dropped ET Support..  Please post here if you have any questions or feedback.

[Mattle]

Nice job bro

Hopefully many people still find the way to play ET through this tutorial.

[Frated1]

Nice job Chuckun!

[Strangelove]

Just figured out something about the generated ETkeys that seems to cause some problem. When some player get's a new key and connects to the server it works fine until he's disconnecting. When the player's reconnecting the GUID is lost and XP are gone again even if he followed your tutorial.

The step that seems fixing that problem is setting the file as "read only" in the explorer though, maybe you can add this step to your tutorial, Chuchu?

[Chuckun]

Strobel, on 31 January 2012 - 12:40 PM, said:

Just figured out something about the generated ETkeys that seems to cause some problem. When some player get's a new key and connects to the server it works fine until he's disconnecting. When the player's reconnecting the GUID is lost and XP are gone again even if he followed your tutorial.

The step that seems fixing that problem is setting the file as "read only" in the explorer though, maybe you can add this step to your tutorial, Chuchu?

Ok, thanks for that, I'll look into it.  Most of the problem for people is that they dont write it to pbconfig.. But if the etkey itsself is getting deleted, then read only may help.. but not if they're running as admin :/

[Strangelove]

Chuckun, on 31 January 2012 - 12:49 PM, said:

Ok, thanks for that, I'll look into it.  Most of the problem for people is that they dont write it to pbconfig.. But if the etkey itsself is getting deleted, then read only may help.. but not if they're running as admin :/

It even happens when you're running it with admin privileges, I guess the generator can't set the flag itself so my Key got deleted after I got a new one. Thanks got I made a copy before I figured that out.

[Chuckun]

Strobel, on 31 January 2012 - 03:59 PM, said:

It even happens when you're running it with admin privileges, I guess the generator can't set the flag itself so my Key got deleted after I got a new one. Thanks got I made a copy before I figured that out.

No what I'm saying is; read-only or not, an admin privileged instance of ET.exe would still be able to remove the etkey file if it wanted to..

[Strangelove]

Chuckun, on 31 January 2012 - 05:45 PM, said:

No what I'm saying is; read-only or not, an admin privileged instance of ET.exe would still be able to remove the etkey file if it wanted to..

Well, ok.  But it's still some kind of schizophrenic that ET got the chance to delete a file that is necessary for its purpose.

[Chuckun]

Tutorial has been updated to reflect an additional step when securing the GUID with /pb_cl_enable.. The addition is a simple /pb_writecfg to write the PB enablement to your pb config file.

[proNoob]

Thanks for the information.

[Pablin]

Hi!

Need Help! I can´t get my guid. Keeps saying "unknown".

And get this, my xp is never saved, it´s stuck at like 195. I uninstalled, re installed, bout 50 times. I need help. Oh and now when i try to go to jaymod 1 or 2 it says that my info isn´t validate or something, doesn´t let me in. What do i dooooo?

thanks

[Gubbi]

Have you tried this already?

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Not working?
If /cl_guid reveals that you have an *Unknown* guid, join a server then type the following:
/pb_cl_enable; pb_system 1; pb_writecfg; reconnect;
This should solve all issues.

[dansBR]

In myetdaigaveitand wentand downloadedanewetkey.orgetkeyand the problemneverappeared

[Chuckun]

dansBR, on 26 March 2012 - 05:44 PM, said:

In myetdaigaveitand wentand downloadedanewetkey.orgetkeyand the problemneverappeared

Please speak english.

Thanks.