PB Client Authentication Failure

[gReddysaurus rEx]

PB continues to prove it's uselessness in pc gaming. Last night, I was playing ET just fine and dandy. But tonight and earlier today I was getting kicked for "general PB client Authentication Failure." Five minutes ago I was kicked for that reason and when I reconnected, I got another kick for "losing key packets 9003."

 

I have Windows Vista, but I run ET in Windows XP compatibility mode and as an administrator. I've also updated pb earlier today but it still gives me this kick.

 

EDIT: I just tried reinstalling pb and it didn't do anything. Good job punkbuster... you fail as usual.

Edited November 5, 2010 by gReddysaurus rEx

[Vanaraud]

Well sorry to hear that, happens too many times. Hopefully PB will fix it soon... You´re that gfred... guy, right?

Did you try to DELETE pbsetup.exe and co? And do you run other programs with ET? If yes try closing them.

Is ET+PB enabled on firewall if you have any?

What CPU do you have? If multicore then would be worth to try open task manager- click on ET and set affinity to CPU cores which isnt 0.

Also could set values in console

\com_hunkmegs 128 or higher depending on RAM

\pb_sleep 500

Thats pretty much all solutions popped into my mind.

Hope to see ya soon back and fragging

Vanaraud

 

 

hmm just remembered- make screenshot of PB actions on console when you are connecting till kicked. those blue lines u know;)

might help when you delete old unnecessary and packs from other server, helped me once. But you might wanna SAVE ETKEY before deleteing anything(ETKEY=ur LVL+XP)

 

PS. This topic would fit more under SUPPORT?

Edited November 5, 2010 by Vanaraud

[daredevil]

1. Disable firewall and anti virus.

 

2. Follow this: http://fearless-assassins.com/tutorials/article/14-how-to-update-your-pb-punk-buster/

[*Sypher*]

I hope they fix it soon.

I just played half a map today and came across 7 kicks of pb.

I got some SS if you want.

[gReddysaurus rEx]

For whatever reason, I'm not getting any of the kicks today. All I did was reinstall pb & update it but that didn't work yesterday... weird.