AA3 and punkbuster

[[THANATOS].Fragaholic]

FYI from the tracker forums in regards punkbuster.

Quote:Originally posted by yapple2
This is an announcement to all America's Army 3 Players...

The Server Administrators for America's Army 3.x are looking to turn Punkbuster on for the servers to get the protection and control they need for the servers to keep the gameplay the way it is suppose to be.

For the Server Administrators to turn PB on, all players must manually update Punkbuster on their PC otherwise when you join the server you get stuck on the Team Selection and will not be able to play, then a little bit later you are kicked back to the browser.

Please follow the instructions below immediately to avoid having such issues when Punkbuster is finally enabled on the servers. Yes, you do need to do this as very soon most servers will have Punkbuster enabled and you will run out of places to play otherwise.


First download and install PBSetup from the following location: http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php

Once you have downloaded pbsetup just run it from any location and click "Add a Game".




Depending on delivery method and operating system it will be 1 of 4 paths. When you click "Add a Game" the path found is incorrect so you must browse to locate the "Binaries" folder, DO NOT SELECT "pb" folder as it is created or overwritten.

Paths are as follows
Deploy Client:
x86 (32bit) Windows

Quote:C:\Program Files\USArmy\America's Army 3\Binaries

64bit Windows

Quote:C:\Program Files (x86)\USArmy\America's Army 3\Binaries

Steam Download
x86 (32bit) Windows

Quote:C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\america's army 3\Binaries

64bit Windows

Quote:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\america's army 3\Binaries

[color="yellow"]Again, make sure you have selected the Binaries folder and NOT the pb folder.[/color]




After adding the game, click on "Check for Updates".




When in-game, users will also need to click "Enable Punkbuster" on the MBS page America's Army 3.





Further support for admins and player can be found at http://www.airdaleops.com

[[THANATOS].Sneye.GT]

Cool, done, good info! :dance:

[[THANATOS].-Hades]

[THANATOS Wrote:.Sneye.GT"]Cool, done, good info! :dance:

[[THANATOS].-Nitro-]

i have a 2 mb connection and the game lags like a mofo for me
its like playing with a 250 ping
any ideas guys?

[Spluff]

[THANATOS Wrote:.-Nitro-"]i have a 2 mb connection and the game lags like a mofo for me
its like playing with a 250 ping
any ideas guys?

Probably because you're playing from pakistan. What ping are the servers giving you? The given pings are about 3x off.

[[THANATOS].Homebrew]

I was wondering about PB update. Thanks for the info!

[[THANATOS].-Nitro-]

im getting about 60-70 ping
managed to play some yesterday
must say that i liked the 'ranch'
nicely planned map
even managed a couple of kills on my shitty ping lol

[Spluff]

Yeah, so your actual ping is about 220. It tells me my ping on American servers is about 100, which is patently false.

[[THANATOS].Zer0-^GT]

Done! Thanks

[[THANATOS].Shiver-]

Thanks a lot, Frag. Decided to give this a shot with my shitty pc.

EDIT: Aaaaand I'm having the same problem as Home now, where I just get kicked from servers by PB. I haven't played a round yet.

[[THANATOS].Metal]

[THANATOS Wrote:.Shiver-"]Thanks a lot, Frag. Decided to give this a shot with my shitty pc.

EDIT: Aaaaand I'm having the same problem as Home now, where I just get kicked from servers by PB. I haven't played a round yet.

Copy the pbsetup from 2x and put it in your binaries folder. Run pbsetup, should work. If not, then it's some other issue which will be fixed when I can troubleshoot that shit more with tha homey.

[[THANATOS].Shiver-]

Done, and failed.

PnkBstrB.exe is also set to have full internet access through my firewall, so that's not it.

[[THANATOS].Metal]

So it's the B client that's being a retard. At least it pages in and out fine, so there is hope.

I'm gonna email you my pb folder and 2 html bitches that need to go in your binaries folder.

[[THANATOS].Fragaholic]

When you do the test, does it say PnkBstrB.exe is running?

[[THANATOS].Shiver-]

[THANATOS Wrote:.Fragaholic"]When you do the test, does it say PnkBstrB.exe is running?

All the tests checked out before - I didn't look specifically for PBB, though. I just replaced my pb folder with the one Metal sent me, along with his other suggestions when that alone didn't work.
It allowed me to play 1 round on an Alley server, but the next round I was promptly kicked to Leavenworth... Apparently I somehow killed someone while changing firing mode?
I don't know... but I'm still trying to get it to work. Bear in mind, I have a 2.20GHz single core processor, so if it doesn't work, I didn't expect it to in the first place.