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

i dont know itll last but i took cross advice and updated my punk buster at evenbalance.com and i was able to log on,np.try that bertie.

Bump - help still needed

[quote name='Bertie the Bunyip' date='08/24/06 6:33pm' post='122003'] 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

Here's a screenshot:

[quote name='Bertie the Bunyip' date='08/25/06 3:23pm' post='122070'] [quote name='Bertie the Bunyip' date='08/24/06 6:33pm' post='122003'] 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

Here's a screenshot:

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The other night. several people had their pb auto downloads hanging. They were on macs and did manual upgrades which seemed to solve the problems.

miked

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

good work whino!! this is something ive noticed is the detail was alot more than usual so i must lower my graphics settings.thats gotta be it!

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

Bertie I have been having the same probs.I get re-started when I try to play on barbarossa & Stock maps or any other server running punkbuster, on Tuchola cant even get on get error Hunk_AllocateMemory:failed on 4194320, needs 1647024. I also have been playing for almost a year with no probs until last sunday, saturday everything ok. I to have tried the punkbuster updates , and checked my version and it 1270 nothing seems to work.I put in a ticket to the punkbuster people also let you know what they say so we can compair notes.

CodeName

http://www.mobclan.com/forums/upload/index...?showtopic=7047 try this to see if it helps

I think my problem is memory related I was playing yesterday and the game was working fine, but I was not running Ventrilo. The I started up Ventrilo and went back to the game and it crashed on me. I only have 512 MB so I'll just get some more memory and hopefully that will be the end of it. I'll update you if I find anything else.

Wino - I have 1GB of RAM and still have the problem. How much RAM does PunkBuster need?

Bertie the Bunyip

Got word back from punkbuster they said to update vid drivers and sound drivers which i did and still does not work.

Hi Bertie,

If you stop killing me, PB will stop kicking you out..haha J/K, I think updating the PB has helped solved most problems people have been having.

Cudamom

6PAK - you might be right. I thought that you modified PunkBuster to keep me from killing you.

As far as I can tell, I have the latest version of PB installed.

Here's a screenshot:





Codename - PunkBuster support wants to install the first driver on the MSI motherboard website. The link they provided is for a SATA RAID driver. I don't have SATA hard drives in my PC, so I wrote back for clarification.

I also reinstalled the video, audio, and chipset drivers. No joy here either.

Bertie the Bunyip





P.S. There are some nasty Smilies available here.

Bertie the Bunyip

They (pb) asked about my mother board to , but you cant tell me that if this many people are having probs. its our motherboards ,vid cards,sound cards ect. Maybe its a problem or glitch in the latest version of pb.

CodeName

p.s I am starting to have COD withdralls!!!!!!!!!!! ahaaaa! ahaaaa!

Ok, now today it's not working again. Very strange that it was working fine yesterday until I tried to run Ventrilo at the same time. I also have a ticket into punkbuster so hopefully they can help fix this.

i dont know if this will help ,but i was having these exact problems until i lowerd mt graphics set 1 notch in game settings.i also lowerd the sound a little as well and since havent had a pob. i have 512 ram as well and my comp is 4 years old.

I have set all my video and sound setting to the lowest possible setting and it is still crashing. Plus today I played a little on a server that didn't have PB enabled and II didn't have any problems, even at my old higher video and audio settings. I might try reinstalling Ventrilo as this did seem to cause an issue once it seemed to be fixed. Is everyone else with this problem runing Vent too?

I also went to a server not running pb and was able to play. I am not running vent.

I installed new audio and video drivers and it seems to be working again. Although my vent is now saying directsound can't be loaded, at least i can play now.

Wino - that new DLL I got from PunkBuster worked for a while, but CoD UO started crashing again. What a bummer.

Bertie the Bunyip