{"id":445,"date":"2010-12-30T17:21:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T00:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.net\/wordpress\/?p=445"},"modified":"2012-08-12T19:18:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T02:18:42","slug":"battlefield-2-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 2 on Steam kicking you off because of PunkBuster?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you take advantage of the super Steam holiday sales?\u00a0 I did, and got the complete Battlefield 2 pack for $4.99.\u00a0 However, if you installed it and got it all working – you might keep getting kicked out of network games because PunkBuster reports that you have an ‘Invalid driver version\/game’.\u00a0 This is because of the Steam Community overlays.<\/p>\n

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  1. At your game library list in Steam, just right-click the Battlefield 2 icon<\/li>\n
  2. Select Properties<\/li>\n
  3. Go to the General tab<\/li>\n
  4. UN-select the ‘Enable Steam Community In-Game’ option.<\/li>\n
  5. Voila<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Yes, annoying.\u00a0 Can’t believe old games like this haven’t been re-modified by steam to not need the now-ancient PunkBuster system.\u00a0 The fact they’ve had to update PunkBuster to be separate Windows Services now in order to work shows you it’s time to see that stuff go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Did you take advantage of the super Steam holiday sales?\u00a0 I did, and got the complete Battlefield 2 pack for $4.99.\u00a0 However, if you installed it and got it all working – you might keep getting kicked out of network games because PunkBuster reports that you have an ‘Invalid driver version\/game’.\u00a0 This is because of the Steam Community overlays. At your game library list in Steam, just right-click the Battlefield 2 icon Select Properties Go to the General tab UN-select…<\/p>\n

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