Thread: Vista problem?

So many of you know im getting really pissted off that i cant play on TTP's cod4 server due to my PB. I gave it a try on my XP computer and what do you know, I DONT GET KICKED! How ever when i go direct route to the router and turn off the firewall on the Vista machine, I get kicked. I've reinstalled the game, reinstalled PB, cleaned up my PB history and registry, etc... I think this is a Vista problem that PB has to fix. Give me your feedback on if you think it might be a Vista problem.

-DonVito :4

Well tis is a CoD4 issue and my BF games, i dont care if i dont keep my unlocks, ill just have more of a challenge. I like challenges. But:

Originally Posted by Mojo

If the PC is "yours", I mean, if you are not a user on a parent's or company's machine, try enabling the hidden (true) administrator account, and running the game from that account.
There probably is a hidden feature in PB that needs elevated permission to complete it's task, and is being denied without any notification from Vista while in full screen mode (in game).
Click Start, open command prompt, with right click, "run as admin", click continue at UAC control pop-up, type (or copy) this string into cmd:

net user administrator /active:yes

There should not be any password assigned to (true) admin accnt, and I advise not setting one, because major malfunctions can occur if you forget p/w. Vista will lock you totally out of the system in that case.
Anyhootz, restart after closing cmd prompt window, and you should see the (true) admin accnt next to other user accnts @ log on window @ next boot. Try running game under (true) admin and see if that helps.
If you can, then we know it's some feature deep in game or PB that needs higher elevated status to run properly.
I don't recommend continuing to stay logged on as (true) admin, since there isn't any p/w assigned, and anyone starting your PC can remove your account even without p/w, and lock machine.
I would remove that accnt from showing once you figure out problem with PB...

To diasble account, log on as admin/user, and type this into (again, run as admin) cmd prompt to disable hidden (true) admin accnt: *(don't disable (true) admin account while still logged on as (true) admin, use user w/admin rights to disable)*

net user administrator /active:no

Hope you find your issue.

My dad wont want to try it because he thinks it will break the computer. We have been having problems with the backup. We try to save before we try something and it was saved from the last update. Wich was 3 months ago.

Your dad's overly paranoid; live in your shell to long, and you'll die of oxygen deprivation.

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

Your dad's overly paranoid; live in your shell to long, and you'll die of oxygen deprivation.

Well i havent yet. But i fucking hate vista and i want to through the comp out the window but i cant. Its 55lbs and its too good to throw out cause of the speed.

I run cod4 on vista without any problems. :9

One of the updates fucked us up but not you.

no seriously no problems here i have just recently updated the game to 1.7 as i haven't played for awhile, and was in the game a couple days ago without any pb crashes or anything. Have you tried running it as administrator or even running it in compatibilty mode of windows xp.

Its allways been on compat. mode and after a while on some vista computers it crashes, IMO from others.