This is weird!?

[C3jZi]

soooo i tryed to play some W:ET like usually 

i tryed to connect to the HBC hell basket etpro server and this poped up 

  http://prntscr.com/l249ac

hmm its kinda weird tryed the things that its showed there didnt work also tryed to connect to other etpro servers nope isnt working
when i connect to jay 1-3 everything is fine...

could anyone assist ?

[Anton Chigurh]

Bad internet connection?

[C3jZi]

@Anton Chigurh well its i could say "solid" i wanted to play as every day and this showed up im really not sure 

[Anton Chigurh]

I can think of 2 simple things you can try assuming your connection is ok, and there are no server and client program error's

Use a default profile (something like /exec etconfig.cfg) or create a new profile and see if it makes a difference.

Anything else is more complicated.

PK3 cleaner (available on this website) or reinstall ET.

 

Maybe somebody else has a briljant idea.

 

Cheers Anton

 

[ElEl]

Have you tried reading the message it gives you? It says visit ETKey.org to fix that exact error message below it.

[Dest!Ny]

2 hours ago, ElEl said:

Have you tried reading the message it gives you? It says visit ETKey.org to fix that exact error message below it.

 

Missing ETKEY would likely give a different message. I think the problem lies within your punkbuster installation (maybe you deleted it because someone said it wasn't needed?)

 

Download/install punkbuster here: http://www.evenbalance.com/downloads/pbsvc/pbsvc.exe (trusted link)

[ElEl]

56 minutes ago, Dest!Ny said:

Missing ETKEY would likely give a different message. I think the problem lies within your punkbuster installation (maybe you deleted it because someone said it wasn't needed?)

 

I think whoever wrote the error message knew this too. The first of the two options on etkey.org is to install PB.

[RedBaird]

FA servers do not run PB anymore, not since they abandoned ET several years ago.

 

I do still have it on my system. 

 

PnkBstrA.exe is a win-service that runs at startup.  Starting ET probably starts PnkBstrB.  I think that punk-B will show that error if it does not find punk-A.  

 

You can reinstall PBuster or uninstall it altogether.  

 

If either of those 'fix' the problem, then the problem becomes, why did a service disappear?  Would a sys-reboot have run it like normal?

 

ADDED...TBS says that c3jzi's error-server is running PB...some others are marked 'pb' too.

 

Edited October 5, 2018 by RedBaird

[MikeSlayer]

you need to allow punkbuster through your firewall 

[pEEEEEMP]

I get the same error but that's because I uninstalled pb when they quit supporting ET.  Either check your installation of PB or what mike said about the firewall.