Forum Discussion

wellandowd1989's avatar
12 years ago

Service Communication Failure: PnkBstrA.exe

I already used the forums comprehensive guide and changed the compatibiity of PnkbstrA.exe and PnkbstrB.exe to run as administrator. I also downloaded Pnkbstr.exe (or whatever the program is called) and added BF3 to the list of games and updated it. 
This has become really frustating, since I don't get much time to play video games I only play BF3 once every other week or so and everytime I come back it's a new problem with Punkbuster or battlelog. 
I get this error  Service Communication Failure: PnkBstrA.exe... after 5 seconds of loading into a game or before I even load the game. I haven't changed any files or folders involving the game in the past few weeks. Please help. 

5 Replies

  • I've been having a similar problem lately i think. Do you get into a game and then have it crash with the message: "Game disconnected: you were kicked by PunkBuster. Stated reason: PUnkBuster kicked player '_____' (for 0 minutes) ... RESTRICTION: Service Communication Failure: PnkBstrB.exe initialization failed."?

    I updated my punkbuster as one of the suggested threads suggested, but to no avail. I have a screenshot of it, but I can't figure out how to post that here.

  • Yes I get the exact same error and it happens immediately after the game loads the map or when selecting my class for the first time. The only difference is my says PnkBstrA.exe instead of PnkBstrB.exe, I've noticed in the forums those two files are usually updated/altered together so I'm sure the reason is the same. Poured over forums for a couple hours last night with no help. Really annoying.

  • To the dearest support team of Electronic Arts:

    Please help us on this one? I really want to play End Game

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Please Help Usss!