Call of Duty 4 punkbuster and PowerPc issue

The App Store distributes the software. The developers support it and updates for it. Punkbuster is supported in-game by the developers (not by Apple), and problems with it need to be taken up with the develoeprs of the game and Evenbalance.

Boas Jonsson wrote:

Has anyone found a workaround for this?

Yep, return your system to Snow Leopard 10.6.8.

Yes and now. As long as App Store is usable on new macs only, it should not include PPC apps, as App Store cannot run on that generation. True, Snow Leopard is last to support PPC apps via Rosetta, and this should be the preoccupation of the user to check compatibility. Unfortunately, many do not read these minimal requirements, and hasten to update not knowing they are not compatibile with Lion, even if the PPC issue on Lion has been discussed in millions of threads, I guess.

I can confirm that this is happening OSX snow leapord 10.6.8. I have tried manually updating punkbuster and I keep getting kicked from servers for having outdated version! This is a dissapointment. My COD4 is also from the AppStore.

this is also happening to me on OS X Lion - my copy is not from the app store though, I bought it off of Amazon (hard copy, I have the cd, etc.)

It's happening to everyone on a Mac.... Aspyr is on top of it and apparently so is EvenBalance.

Aspry Support thread:

http://support.aspyr.com/entries/21455448-punk-buster-problems-with-cod4

I'm also affected, lodged a ticket and yet not received a response. I thought companies like Evenbalance, Aspyr or Apple would have resolved matters of this nature before they affect the general public..what a joke..!!

In any event I hope this gets fixed ASAP

I'm also affected. My MW is a apple store bought hardcopy with the disc etc. I was having the trouble in OSX 10.6.8 and upgraded all the PB files as directed, did not work. I upgraded to Lion to see if that might help and peed away my PPC stuff in the process, but the PB issue is still the same.

Waiting on the necessary update/fix from someone at Aspyr, Evenbalance, or Apple and ****** off about the wait and the issue.

What is this? Microsoft?

Im havingthe same problem as everyone else :S...... Actually there is a dll folder. just shearched on finder "pb" and there is a folder inside Call of Duty 4 Data and inside Call of Duty package.... but I dont know where to download mc002301.mac file.... link does nothing.... :/

LOTS of confusion becasue of PunkBuster... and might I add a little less than helpful for all the problems they have created this week... Carelss implementation across a wide spectrum of users.

People that own the CD version seem to have a fix... People who bought from the App Store are still being kicked.

I myself, do not have a "dll" folder. I have a "pb" folder with files inside... but no "dll". I placed the .mac file into the "pb" folder but still being kicked. I have tried each and EVERY solution on multiple boards listing remedies and procedures. Still beign kicked...

Standing by for Apple and PB to get their act together.... App store is a "1 Stop Store"... why am I even dealing with PunkBuster and putting code and files into a game I bought from App Store????

Standing by....

I got it to work using the mc002301.mac file that PB says to use in the dII folder as listed in the post above.

You need to click on that file they list.

You should get a browser window with a bunch of code listed when you open that file.

When the window with all the code opens, go to file in your menu bar and choose "save as."

You need to save the item with the name mc002301.mac inside the dll folder which is inside your PB file inside the Call of Duty folders

Open your Call of Duty folder so you can see the sub folders.

There will be a Call of Duty Data folder.

Open that.

Inside there will be a PB folder.

Open that.

Inside the PB folder there should be both a dll folder and a htm folder.

The dll folder will be above the htm folder.

You need to save that item in that dll folder and you need to make sure the file name appears as mc002301.mac when you save it. The machine will likely try to add .webarchive to the file name at the end. You need to get rid of that, or at least I did, and it works fine. If the machine doesn't let you cahnge the file name when you "save as" just save the file in that folder, and then change the name to end in .mac the same way you would change a folder name on your desktop.

Inside that dll folder you will see a bunch of other mcxxxx.mac files.

I'm using a store bought hardcopy of the game and after I got that file saved in there, it's been working fine. (knock on wood)