So, when playing the AIX mod for Battlefield 2, I kept getting kicked after about 2-3 minutes of play when punkbuster(!) complained that:<\/p>\n
PnkBsrtrB.exe handshaking failed<\/strong> ; PnkBsrtrB.exe heartbeats stopped<\/strong> ; PB init failure<\/strong> ; Packet loss<\/strong><\/p>\n The basic problem boiled down to the fact that when Punkbuster installed, it created the outgoing rules in windows firewall, but it did not create the INCOMING rules.\u00a0 I simply added incoming rules for:<\/p>\n c:windowssysWOW32PnkBsrtrA.exe And set them to ‘allow’.\u00a0 That turns out to fix the problem.<\/p>\n I still can’t believe how horrible the solutions to prevent cheating were back in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, when playing the AIX mod for Battlefield 2, I kept getting kicked after about 2-3 minutes of play when punkbuster(!) complained that: PnkBsrtrB.exe handshaking failed ; PnkBsrtrB.exe heartbeats stopped ; PB init failure ; Packet loss The basic problem boiled down to the fact that when Punkbuster installed, it created the outgoing rules in windows firewall, but it did not create the INCOMING rules.\u00a0 I simply added incoming rules for: c:windowssysWOW32PnkBsrtrA.exe c:windowssysWOW32PnkBsrtrB.exe And set them to ‘allow’.\u00a0 That turns…<\/p>\n
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