How to update your PB (Punk Buster)

[daredevil]

This is the support topic for the tutorial How to update your PB (Punk Buster). Please post here if you have any questions or feedback.

[RainierWolfcastle]

good ol' punkbuster. btw, what is the deal with pnkbstrA.exe and B.exe?

[daredevil]

good ol' punkbuster. btw, what is the deal with pnkbstrA.exe and B.exe?

 

Quote from Evebalance.

 

What exactly does the PnkBstrA service do?

 

We have moved part of PunkBuster's auto-update functionality into the PnkBstrA service. This service is used by PunkBuster to update other PunkBuster components in the background while users are playing our supported games with PunkBuster enabled. By moving this functionality and others into services and drivers, the part of PunkBuster that runs inside the game no longer needs Administrator rights.

 

What other components does PnkBstrA update?

 

There are currently two other new components, another service called PnkBstrB and a kernel driver called PnkBstrK. These are not installed by the PBSVC Setup Program. They are installed and/or updated on the fly by PnkBstrA when a game is launched with PunkBuster enabled. PnkBstrB and PnkBstrK help PunkBuster look for cheats while users are playing on PunkBuster enabled servers

 

 

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