I'm BACK!!! (The Spanky Chronicles)

**SpankyMcFly3** · 09-22-08, 10:49 AM

As many of you already know, I have been out of game playing status for over a month. My Hard drive was so riddled with viruses, installers, adware and malware I could not really play. Well I have a new hard drive, much much faster and larger capacity, and have installed and patched and updated the game.

Thing is, I can join other PB managed servers but when I try to join TTP PB boots me with just the “Punkbuster” general no description note. I went and manually updated PB but it still happens, just on TTP. I guess I will uninstall and reinstall and patch and blah blah blah.

I hope it works and I will see you all tonight!!!

**that1biotch** · 09-22-08, 10:55 AM

YAY! :10

He needs another few weeks of grounding since you are having technical difficulties!

**laggyNgroovy** · 09-22-08, 11:15 AM

Does this mean new posters are soon to follow?

**SpankyMcFly3** · 09-22-08, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by laggyNgroovy

Does this mean new posters are soon to follow?

Well....I have been spending a lot of time on doing other "artwork" but it just might.

**laggyNgroovy** · 09-22-08, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by SpankyMcFly3

Well....I have been spending a lot of time on doing other "artwork" but it just might.

I thought the last time the cops picked you up for tagging would have cured that itch. Hopefully you can have another nice long run before getting caught again.

**FragRaptor** · 09-22-08, 03:11 PM

The word back is supposed to be all caps, noob. :P

Welcome back.

**Turtlesexx** · 09-22-08, 04:58 PM

PB was given me a lot of trouble the other day in COD4. Had to delete the PB file and manually update. Then COD4 told me I had to enable PB to join the TTP server and when I choose yes it FINALLY recognized the correct version of PB. Took me 45 minutes to make it work.

**IronStomach** · 09-22-08, 07:36 PM

Good to hear you're back! Let us know if we all need to join hands and sing happy songs to your hard drive.

**SpankyMcFly3** · 09-22-08, 07:43 PM

LOL, I think a round of Kumbayah is in order!

Was just in TOP 5, the one that kept kicking me, and got to have a good round with KingArthor.

Just as an FYI I found this and it is what worked for fixing my punkbuster problem.

Users that are getting kicked for "Service Communication Failure" (including the handshake failure type) have some other software that is blocking the PunkBuster services.

Some users have previously disabled the PnkBstrA.exe and PnkBsrtB.exe services in the past, and these services are now mandatory.

If the services are stopped/disabled, then PB will kick from this point forward.

Sometimes it is an anti-virus program (like an old version of McAfee Security Center), sometimes it is a personal firewall that are blocking the services. Any user who is getting kicked for this will have to stop whatever is blocking PB or configure the program to allow the two services.

The below link is a tool provided by PunkBuster that will help users who need to reinstall the services:

http://www.evenbalance.com/downloads/pbsvc/pbsvc.exe

See you in the field!!! Spanky is back in the saddle!