PnkBstrA Error. Help pls.

I haven't played BF4 in months and felt like coming back for a bit but whenever I try and join a server I connect to the game, (occasionally get to spawn) and then I am kicked and receive this message:

ERROR

Game disconnected: you were kicked by PunkBuster. Stated reason: PunkBuster kicked player 'iAm_po0ts' (for 0 minutes) ... RESTRICTION: Service Communication Failure: PnkBstrA.exe

battlefield 4

2 Replies

Anonymous
Not applicable
9 years ago
Yo my dude i get this problem all the time just go into task manager then go to the "services" tab the scroll till you find "PnkBstrA" right click and click start
MADrag0n
Legend
9 years ago
Hello .

At first u can try reinstall PB in this way:

- download this, unpack it, run\install it as Admin, add games in a list;

- download this, run\install it as Admin;

- restart PC, close\disable programs like this, run Origin as Admin, try to play.