Give up PC gaming completely now when such an important game feature totally fails on you? Clearly we're not alone on this one, just google the error! This is very annoying and I'm not sure what to do.
I do run Windows Defender but there is no change to my problem even when it's deactivated and I don't have a firewall activated. I've used Process Explorer to find any hidden handles accessing that file but there are none, nothing is touching the file(s). It doesn't matter what I do, it'll always fail copying or accessing pnkbstrb.exe in C:\windows\system32 or whatever it's trying to do. I've managed to reinstall punkbuster after a PC reboot twice so far but I don't want to reboot my PC that often since I am running services such as http, ftp, mail and a teamspeak server on my machine. It all started when I started to play Red Orchestra 2 (Rising Storm) again after like 2 years or so. Hello guys, I'll awake an old thread because I have exactly the same problem now. It has happened in the past and resolved itself Visit for more information.Īny help you could provide would be appreciated! Thanks in advanceĮdit: Id also like to add this is not the first time this has happened. This service is a component of the PunkBuster Anti-Cheat system. PnkBstrB v2.333 (BF4) Service Attempting Unload (ff02). PnkBstrB v2.333 (BF4) Service Started Successfully. WARNING: Ignoring Packet from unauthenticated source (59307) Manually stopping PnkBstrB FAILED - no handle
Watching for PnkBstrB instance change (11) TIMEOUTĬhecking PnkBstrK driver status NOT FOUND PnkBstrA v1036 Service Started Successfully. PnkBstrA.log: C:\Users\seanb_000\AppData\Local\PunkBuster\BF4\pb\PnkBstrB.exe] to failed Load denied. Response = 14391 (ms) PnkBstrB DID NOT start. "C:\Users\seanb_000\AppData\Roaming\PnkBstrB.exe"Ĭhecking if PnkBstrB is running NOT RUNNING During the reinstall it says "can't open file 'C \WINDOWS\system32\PnkBstrB.exe' (error 32: the process cannot access the file because it is being used by anither process.)" Then when installing I recieve this as my output
When I googled my problem I was told to go into my battlefield 4 install file and run pbsvc.exe. RESTRICTION: Service Communication Failure: PnkBstrB.exe initialization failed".I am currently on windows 8.1. Stated reason: PunkBuster kicked player 'sean33333' (for 0 minutes). I can join a game for about 2 minutes sometimes a little longer and am then kicked with the message "Game disconnected: you were kicked by PunkBuster.
dll names around so that they are named differently but all point the same place is enough to trick most stuff like VAC/PB. It can hide itself rather easily and avoid PB detection. It injects itself into the memory/D3D/DX/OpenGL/Whatever.