Remember to set your folder options to show hidden files first to get to your AppData folder! If the game is un-installed but leaves those files behind, delete them as they may be the source of the problem (you’ll likely lose any saved game progress by doing this). If even that doesn’t work, look for any configuration files that the game might create in your Documents folder or AppData folder (Application Data in Windows XP).After that, try uninstalling the game and re-installing it.For Steam games, you should always verify the integrity of the game cache.In general, you should try the following:
If these two solutions don’t solve your problem, you’ll need to try some additional troubleshooting steps that are beyond the scope of this post. Once the installation finishes, try playing the game again. Choose the option to re-install and click Next. This will let you uninstall and/or re-install PunkBuster. For the Steam version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\battlefield bad company 2\install\PunkBuster\ and run the executable file in that folder. If you still have problems, you can try re-installing PunkBuster. This should resolve any issues with PunkBuster being out-of-date. Select the game you just added and click the Check for Updates button.
Click on it so it is selected and then click on Check for Updates to download the latest version of PunkBuster for the game. although it is common to randomly be kicked from games because punkbuster says I have some plugin that is.
Once you accept the terms of the license agreement the program will do a quick check for updates. For Windows users it’s the link labeled “For All Windows Games.”
To remedy this, you can download a PunkBuster update program called “PBSetup” to check for updates and apply them as-needed. It ‘should’ update itself, but that isn’t always the case. In my case, I simply had an out-of-date version of PunkBuster. It’s not 100% foolproof, so some cheaters get around it, and some non-cheaters are the victims of false-positives. Game servers that have PunkBuster enabled will actively detect and boot players who are cheating. It’s really annoying, but fortunately there are a couple of quick and easy fixes that have worked for me and my friends.įor anyone who doesn’t know, PunkBuster is an anti-cheat system for multiplayer online games that detects when players are using hacks, cheats, or other non-standard game files to give them an unfair advantage.
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