Mar 25, 2014 Too lazy to watch the video? I don't blame you. INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Download the PB files here: 2. Extract the files (the download is a.rar. Aug 11, 2018 Open the Steam main window, then click Library, Games. Find in the left list 'Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare'. Rightclick the game and choose properties. In the new window click on 'Local Files' and then 'Browse Local Files'. Now you should be in your CoD4 folder. Since you have now your CoD4 folder locate the file iw3mp.exe.
PunkBuster Background
PunkBuster used to be the standard anti-cheat software used in older Call of Duty titles but now that Activision has switched their games to the Steam platform they have moved to a combination of anti-cheat measures through the Valve Anti-Cheat System (VAC) and Activision developer’s own in house anti-cheat technologies. As of 2013/2014 Even Balance has officially dropped PunkBuster support for older Call of Duty titles. My assumption is they had contracts with Activision to support these Call of Duty games for periods of time and when those contracts expired Activision made the decision to not renew those contracts because of the latest games being released.
There are still a lot of servers running PunkBuster in the older Call of Duty titles and if you can’t get your PunkBuster files updated on the client side you will most likely run into issues when joining or trying to play on PunkBuster enabled servers. Even Balance does offer a standalone update tool called PBSETUP which you can download and run to manually add the Call of Duty games you have installed and force the update of local PunkBuster files but with the latest versions of PBSETUP released the older Call of Duty titles have been removed from the “supported games list”. There is some information out there that instructs you how to edit that “supported games list” which allows you to add the older Call of Duty titles back into PBSETUP – however now it seems Even Balance has also removed all of the Call of Duty download files from their servers so when you get the games added to PBSETUP and attempt to check for updates it just fails anyway.
Punkbuster Download
PunkBuster File Downloads
This brings us to one solution; user-to-user sharing of the latest downloaded PunkBuster files because there is no other way to get them at this point. You can download the necessary files below and simply copy the files from the download into the “pb” folder located within the respective Call of Duty game installation directory overwriting any files that are currently there.
Call of Duty & Call of Duty: United Offensive cod_pb.zip
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare cod4mw_pb.zip
Call of Duty Installation Paths
If you are unsure of your Call of Duty game installation directory below are some common paths for each game.
Call of Duty (UO is an expansion pack installed within)
C:Program FilesCall of Duty
C:Program Files (x86)Call of Duty
C:Program FilessteamsteamappscommonCall of Duty
C:Program Files (x86)steamsteamappscommonCall of Duty
Call of Duty 2
C:Program FilesActivisionCall of Duty 2
C:Program Files (x86)ActivisionCall of Duty 2
C:Program FilessteamsteamappscommonCall of Duty 2
C:Program Files (x86)steamsteamappscommonCall of Duty 2
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
C:Program FilesActivisionCall of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare
C:Program Files (x86)ActivisionCall of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare
C:Program FilessteamsteamappscommonCall of Duty 4
C:Program Files (x86)steamsteamappscommonCall of Duty 4
Call of Duty: World At War
C:Program FilesActivisionCall of Duty World at War
C:Program Files (x86)ActivisionCall of Duty World at War
C:Program FilessteamsteamappscommonCall of Duty World at War
C:Program Files (x86)steamsteamappscommonCall of Duty World at War
I recently did some hardware upgrades on my gaming system and did a fresh install of Windows 10 and upon trying to get these older Call of Duty games up and running correctly again I found myself spending quite a bit of time trying to figure out what was going on and how to get around these PunkBuster issues. With the many places I had to look and find things I thought it would be best to just put some information here collectively to help individuals going through this in the future. Thanks go to the following places for helping me gather information on this topic.
Install and Update PunkBuster Legacy PunkBuster Files PunkBuster Services Guide PunkBuster Setup Guide Call of Duty 2 on Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10
ImpulZ-x
Enlisted: 2011-10-25
If you have windows 10 and you can't play the game due to that punkbuster is not starting. 1 Check if you have your punkbuster updated to the lastest version http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php [evenbalance.com] 2 Check if the punkbuster is running in your task manager and or check your windows service ( start run 'services.mce' and look for PnkBstrA and PnkBstrB ) and start it manual. 3 if you dont have the PnkBstrA and PnkBstrB setup in your windows services. 1 Click Start and type CMD in the Start search box 2 Right click on CMD in the list and right click on 'Run as administrator' 3 Type the following command: net user administrator /active:yes 4 Type the following command: ( for windows 64bit ) sc create PnkBstrB binpath= C:WindowsSysWOW64PnkBstrB.exe start= auto sc create PnkBstrA binpath= C:WindowsSysWOW64PnkBstrA.exe start= auto ( for windows 32bit ) sc create PnkBstrB binpath= C:Windowssystem32PnkBstrB.exe start= auto sc create PnkBstrA binpath= C:Windowssystem32PnkBstrA.exe start= auto Finally check you windows services whether the service has been created and started.
Fuenteror
Enlisted: 2011-10-25
Thanks very much sir. It did work correctly.
StaaleJonko
Enlisted: 2013-08-18
Bookmarking this just in case. Thanks in advance.
Wuchtwumme
Enlisted: 2011-10-27
also worked for me. thank you very much!
GuiltyGodX
Enlisted: 2011-10-25
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I really mean it man I spent 2 days strait trying to fix this. I owe ya a beer!
KrAzZzHD
Enlisted: 2014-01-07
2015-08-12 16:49 , edited 2015-08-12 17:01 by KrAzZzHD
satchY78
Enlisted: 2013-11-13
thanks working :)
Suolib
Enlisted: 2013-08-16
How To Enable Punkbuster Cod4
Thnx!
DqwnZ_
Enlisted: 2013-03-20
(First, sorry for my bad english :S i'm french :p) So, I have do what you say PnkBstrB is running but after running (as admin) 'sc create PnkBstrA binpath= C:WindowsSysWOW64PnkBstrA.exe start= auto' I have this error message: 'The specified service has been marked for deletion' Can you help me?
qu3ntinwagu. Can you retry and create the service?
DqwnZ_
Enlisted: 2013-03-20
So, i have successfully created the 2 services, but when i launch them by manual launch i have this error: 'The specified file is not found' In my SysWOW64, i don't have pnkbstrA and B :/ I have launch PBSetup, i add Battlefield 3, all seems to be good :/
lol, you know the difference between 32 or 64.....
Pro4TLZZ
Enlisted: 2012-12-22
Yeah I had this on cte. I reinstalled pb and it was fine
DiaboliVirtus
Enlisted: 2012-10-22
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meowpewpewmeow
Enlisted: 2014-03-05
if you had them in SysWOW64 then you probably use Wrong/outdated version of pb/pbsvc.exe, incompatible with 64-bit Windows.
ROX-Starboy
Enlisted: 2011-12-24
what do you do if punkbuster IS working, but kicking you out of the game? wait for evenbalance to get of their hands and start working with the proper update?
ImpulZ-x
Enlisted: 2011-10-25
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Luigibiga1
Enlisted: 2011-11-21
StaaleJonko ha detto: Bookmarking this just in case. Thanks in advance.
problematic32
Enlisted: 2012-01-27
This should really be patched.
WemadeToast
Punkbuster Fix For Cod4 Mac 2015 Update
Enlisted: 2013-03-15
Punkbuster Fix For Cod4 Mac 2015 Torrent
2015-10-04 16:45 , edited 2015-10-04 16:45 by WemadeToast
Punkbuster Fix For Cod4 Mac 2015 Free
Why does EA treat there customers like garbage? Why should we have to goto the forums to find a hack like this to get the game to work on a major OS?