Why are the Battlefield 1942 Punkbuster files not responding when online?

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Why are the Battlefield 1942 Punkbuster files not responding when online?

I just bought a family pack and loaded Leopard on a G5 (Late 2005), a G4 MDD, and a G4 Quicksilver. Now, on all 3 machines, everytime I play Battlefield 1942 online I will get kicked from servers who are using Punk Buster for "PB client not responding" after a few minutes of gameplay. Which affects gameplay since 95% of all servers use Punkbuster. I can only play on servers who do not use Punk Buster. I have tried reloading the game, with updates, with no luck at all. I have also tried running Punkbuster's PBSetup.run to update PB files and I still get kicked from online servers for "no packet flows". Am I forced to revert back to Tiger to play online games that use Punkbuster (Battlefield 1942, America's Army, etc...)? There must be something within Leopard preventing communication between my computers and Punkbuster. Can anyone help?

G5 (late 2004), G4 MDD, G4 QS, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Oct 28, 2007 9:10 AM

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dboune

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Oct 28, 2007 9:23 AM in response to jdswier

I'm assuming you performed an upgrade. Try completely reinstalling BattleField.

At least on Windows PunkBuster runs as a service, I don't know about the Mac. It might not be starting anymore on your new Leopard upgrade.

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jdswier Author

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Oct 28, 2007 9:31 AM in response to dboune

Thanx anyway, I have tried removing & reinstalling the game a couple times. I even manually removed all aspyr, punkbuster and battlefield files from prefs, libs, and docs, then tried a fresh install. I have also used CleanApp to remove battlefield files, then installed.

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