Game disconnected: you were kicked RESTRICTION: Disallowed Program/Driver [130827]

This Punkbuster message indicates that some kind of program is running on your computer that is not allowed in cooperation with Punkbuster. 

Please close all programs that are currenly running on your computer and are not required to play, then try again.

Game disconnected: you were kicked by PunkBuster. Stated reason: PunkBuster kicked player 'Lint938x' (for 0 minutes) ... RESTRICTION: Disallowed Program/Driver [130827]

I had a few days of no crashing now this ☹️ . Updating drivers / punkbuster does not help some people have said it could be macros tied in with keyboards and mice changed out for a standard mouse and keyboard still disconnect. Repair / Reinstall did not fix . Disabled all programs running that I could still disconnect. 

i have this problem too and i have turned off all programs and unneeded process and i still get kicked for disallowed program or driver.

btw it doesnt do it in the 1st game i join but when it switches maps at the beginning of the round i get kicked.

I bought and installed BF4 a few days before Christmas, and had no problems whatsoever until yesterday, and in my case, I think I know what started doing it, since it is the only change I have made since installing BF4. I updated to the latest Nvidia drivers (332.21) two nights ago, and went to bed without playing anything. Yesterday morning, before work, I played a few rounds of Domination without any problems, then out of nowhere got the PB kick for the Disallowed program/driver. Left for work, came back about 16 hours later, played 3 rounds of Domination and same deal. 

Anyone that has been getting this message recently updated their Nvidia drivers?  I have no other programs/processes running that haven't been running the whole time.

Yeah thats what is does to me I play the first game then I get kicked when joining the second game.

What driver version did you use before updating to 332.21? Is it possible that this driver added the Shadow Play functionality to your Geforce Experience and that this feature is turned on by default and is causing the Punkbuster kick? Please launch Geforce Experience and have a look for the Shadow Play functionality, disable it and join a Battlefield server again. Also, please make sure you are running the latest version of Punkbuster, you can manually update your client version here: http://evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php

Please let us know if that's the case.

Don't remember which driver version I was using, but ShadowPlay was already in there and my video cards are old enough that they don't support it, so it's disabled by default.

I have updated PB manually, which doesn't seem to have had any impact.

The only thing that has seemed to help is updating to the 334.67 drivers.  Now instead of getting the PB kick, I am merely back to having the game freeze and go to a white screen, forcing me to use the task manager to quit out. :cattongue:

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Don't remember which driver version I was using, but ShadowPlay was already in there and my video cards are old enough that they don't support it, so it's disabled by default.

I have updated PB manually, which doesn't seem to have had any impact.

The only thing that has seemed to help is updating to the 334.67 drivers.  Now instead of getting the PB kick, I am merely back to having the game freeze and go to a white screen, forcing me to use the task manager to quit out. :cattongue:

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Hmm, not sure which one is better :robotfrustrated:

Is this still happening since the game update from yesterday?

There are a lot of people having this problem, myself included. I have not change my system for some weeks and bf 4 was running ok. some problems with the "could not join server thing", but it was ok.

it started a few day ago. I updated PB. updated to new nvidia drivers. (shadowplay is disabled by default.) shut down programs. read forum entrie after entrie. nobody knows where it come from.

please do something about it.

maybe it has something to do with the recent winows 8 updates?

Actually hadn't had a chance to sit down and play for a couple of days.  Sat down last night and was fine, played a couple of rounds this morning and was fine (except no game sounds, music, but no gunfire or Bay-splosions).

Between game update and beta Nvidia drivers, something seemed to have worked somewhat.