Game Crashes - locked out of server for 15+ minutes Options

[Bertie the Bunyip]

Howdy - 3 times now on the CoD UO standard map server, the game crashed. I had to push the reset button to restart my PC. When I try to rejoin the game, it says I can't join for 16 minutes. Once it was 18 minutes.

What's going on? Any thoughts?

Thanks

Bertie the Bunyip

P.S. I have "yes" for automatic downloads

[Wino Ph.D.]

Hey Bernie,

Try this it has worked for me and I was having the same problem as you. Go get the pbsetup program here http://www.punkbuster.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php. Make sure you save the program to you pb folder in your COD folder. Then run go to the folder using explorer and run the program and follow directions to setup COD and check for updates. I found when I tried to run the program immediately after DL the pb files were not being placed into the right folder. This seems to have worked for me, however, I have also turned down the quality of some of my sound and video features. I haven't tried to run again at my old settings but I was reading that PB uses a decent chunk of memory and if your system is memory limited then have high quality audio and video setting could cause PB to crash. Hope that helps and you can get back to gaming.

Wino

[Bertie the Bunyip]

Hey Bernie,

Try this it has worked for me and I was having the same problem as you. Go get the pbsetup program here http://www.punkbuster.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php. Make sure you save the program to you pb folder in your COD folder. Then run go to the folder using explorer and run the program and follow directions to setup COD and check for updates. I found when I tried to run the program immediately after DL the pb files were not being placed into the right folder. This seems to have worked for me, however, I have also turned down the quality of some of my sound and video features. I haven't tried to run again at my old settings but I was reading that PB uses a decent chunk of memory and if your system is memory limited then have high quality audio and video setting could cause PB to crash. Hope that helps and you can get back to gaming.

Wino

Howdy Wino - thanks for the detailed instructions. I did not have any problems on Tuchola Forest earlier today, but a few minutes ago, the Standard Map Rotation (Foy) froze-up and I had to hit the reset button. The Standard Map Rotation Server locked me out for 19 minutes.

Clearly, something is wrong with PunkBuster. This is the first time in more than a year of playing on MOB servers that I have had this kind of problem. Others are having the same problem as well. I filed an incident report with the PunkBuster people. I'll see what they have to say.

As for memory, I have 1GB of PC 3200 RAM and a 128 MB BFG 6800 OC video card. I reduced the video levels, but the water in the maps looked like a steel plate. No way did I pay $200 for a video card to have that - LOL.

Bertie the Bunyip