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#1 gamerguy845
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I recently decided to get back into the battlefield games. I picked 2142 off it's dusty shelf and popped the game in. After about 3 minutes in any random online game, "Pb: losing vitals" and punkbuster kicks me, could someone please explain why this is happening

Also with Crysis, I can't even join an online server, ( it basically times out ) when I used to all the time about a month ago

thanks

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#2 Hewkii
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have you done the "run as admin" thing with the shortcut?
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#3 gamerguy845
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the box is whited-out so and checked, so I can't uncheck it or re check it

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#4 Deihmos
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You have to update punkbuster then problem solved.

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php

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#5 gamerguy845
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You have to update punkbuster then problem solved.

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php

Deihmos

thanks, I updated all my EA games and will see if this worked

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#6 Gruug
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There have also been some issues with EA's Master Servers during the last few weeks. The EA BF2142 forums have been rather full of people complaining about the random kicks and so-on.
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There have also been some issues with EA's Master Servers during the last few weeks. The EA BF2142 forums have been rather full of people complaining about the random kicks and so-on.Gruug

intresting, thanks, hopefully this is my problem

because the stupid PUNKBUSTER refuses to let me play more then 30 seconds of any game, even after I updated all my punkbuster games

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any other suggestions, I got Crysis to work, but BF 2142 isn't
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any other suggestions, I got Crysis to work, but BF 2142 isn'tgamerguy845

assuming you've patched the game up to 1.4, I can't think of anything else.

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[QUOTE="gamerguy845"]any other suggestions, I got Crysis to work, but BF 2142 isn'tHewkii

assuming you've patched the game up to 1.4, I can't think of anything else.

should I reinstall the game, or will that do nothing?

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[QUOTE="Hewkii"]

[QUOTE="gamerguy845"]any other suggestions, I got Crysis to work, but BF 2142 isn'tgamerguy845

assuming you've patched the game up to 1.4, I can't think of anything else.

should I reinstall the game, or will that do nothing?

there is a new update, 1.50, after installign update, update punk buster, and try signing into battlefield 2142 with gamespy

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#12 gamerguy845
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[QUOTE="gamerguy845"][QUOTE="Hewkii"]

[QUOTE="gamerguy845"]any other suggestions, I got Crysis to work, but BF 2142 isn'tSGT4EVA

assuming you've patched the game up to 1.4, I can't think of anything else.

should I reinstall the game, or will that do nothing?

there is a new update, 1.50, after installign update, update punk buster, and try signing into battlefield 2142 with gamespy

1.5 is finsihed? I thought it was just announced

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#13 thusaha
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Try uninstall PB(delete pb folder within BF directory) and install it again(read info at PB's website).
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#14 gamerguy845
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Try uninstall PB(delete pb folder within BF directory) and install it again(read info at PB's website).thusaha

I'm not to good with that type of stuff, so I'll try that if nothing else works.

If I unistalled and reinstalled the game, would I have to reapply the 1.4 patch?

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#15 Deihmos
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Yes you have to apply the patch again.
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Make sure you dont have Peer Guardian or a program like that running, could be the problem.
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#17 Makari
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Do you have the PnkBstrA.exe or whatever file running in the background? It runs as a service, and a lot of people just block or kill it - without that, PB punts you from the game.
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#18 gamerguy845
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thank you all for your help, but punkbuster is working fine now, I'm not getting kicked any more, and I didn't even have to do anything. Seesh

thank you all for your help