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lazzer555's avatar
10 years ago
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Punkbuster A has failed to initialise.

Hi there,

I have tried all the fixes that I could find but none have worked.

I have tried changing the settings for punkbuster A and B in the fire wall, even turning the firewall of to try it.

Iv also uninstalled it and reinstalled it with the software from evenbalance.

The problem started with PUNKBUSTER B not initialising but now it is PUNKBUSTER A that is failing to initialise.

Any help is appreciated. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    Ive been having the same issues, but with PnkBstrB having some kind of communication error..  I tried that fix and alot of others and nothing seemed to work... I found out a temporary fix and what I did was go to the BF4 files and delete pb/punkbuster and punkbuster.exe files.. Then I went to the control panel and deleted the PB program.. After that You might need to restart your computer.. then I went into My games in origin and right clicked on the BF4 game and repaired the game.. When its done you go to the files where PnkBstr.exe/Punkbuster.exe is and install the updates.. After that was finished this is what I did to find PnkBstr A and B is working.. You go to run in windows and type in services.msc and scroll down till you see PnkBstr A and PnkBstr B and click on them both and go to start to get them running.. You can stop or start to let you know so its best to keep them running ofcourse and ,make sure you double click on them and make sure you put them on automatic so at start up they are automatically running..

    This is a temporary fix because I have the same issue all the time but its a communication error with PnkBstrB but every time i restart my computer and turn it back on I have to do this process all the time.. SO Punkbuster,EA,Microsoft for windows 10.. Either one of them needs to find a solution because it makes me not want to buy another game thats using punkbuster. I really wanted to purchase BF hardline as well but its pointless cuz then Ill be doing the fix even more than what I have to do now.. When I restart the pc and I find out it stopped working I found out it like removes or deletes the PnkBstrB.. I tell everyone the issue and its like da  mn please fix it.. Im sure they can code windows better to be compatible with punkbuster better or have punkbuster update it so that it can run better on windows 10..

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    Ive been having the same issues, but with PnkBstrB having some kind of communication error..  I tried that fix and alot of others and nothing seemed to work... I found out a temporary fix and what I did was go to the BF4 files and delete pb/punkbuster and punkbuster.exe files.. Then I went to the control panel and deleted the PB program.. After that You might need to restart your computer.. then I went into My games in origin and right clicked on the BF4 game and repaired the game.. When its done you go to the files where PnkBstr.exe/Punkbuster.exe is and install the updates.. After that was finished this is what I did to find PnkBstr A and B is working.. You go to run in windows and type in services.msc and scroll down till you see PnkBstr A and PnkBstr B and click on them both and go to start to get them running.. You can stop or start to let you know so its best to keep them running ofcourse and ,make sure you double click on them and make sure you put them on automatic so at start up they are automatically running..

    This is a temporary fix because I have the same issue all the time but its a communication error with PnkBstrB but every time i restart my computer and turn it back on I have to do this process all the time.. SO Punkbuster,EA,Microsoft for windows 10.. Either one of them needs to find a solution because it makes me not want to buy another game thats using punkbuster. I really wanted to purchase BF hardline as well but its pointless cuz then Ill be doing the fix even more than what I have to do now.. When I restart the pc and I find out it stopped working I found out it like removes or deletes the PnkBstrB.. I tell everyone the issue and its like da  mn please fix it.. Im sure they can code windows better to be compatible with punkbuster better or have punkbuster update it so that it can run better on windows 10..

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    ok let me know how it turns out. also just curious what windows are you running?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    @lazzer555 wrote:

    Im using windows 10.


    yes, see it seems its because of windows 10 because when i used to game on my laptop which struggled to even play csgo.. I used to try bf3 on it and never had any issues and i was using windows 8. Now i recently built my pc like 3 months ago orso and I ended up getting with better times and just went with windows 10 pro.. Nothing but punkbuster issues.. I hope that temp fix works for you.. might have to try again because i left somethings out.. when you delete punkbuster from you programs make sure theres no left overs.. Sorry shouldve wrote it more professionally but was tired and i write lazy..

  • Yea I completely removed it and reinstalled it. Had to go into the registry to finish getting the last bits removed. Hopefully this is it fixed for a while.