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    Problem with COD 4 can someone help?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by renegg, Jul 24, 2009.

  1. renegg

    renegg Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, I just bought Call of Duty 4, and I been trying to play in multiplayer and once I get into a server it kicks me out and displays this error

    Restriction: Service Communication Failure :pnkBstrA.exe

    I been searching in the Punk Buster site, but I don't seem to get an answer on how to solve this. Can someone help me out? Please

    Thanks
     
    renegg, Jul 24, 2009
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  2. Ghold

    Ghold Notebook Evangelist

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    Try re-installing
     
    Ghold, Jul 24, 2009
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  3. klauza

    klauza Notebook Consultant

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    have you updated your punkbuster via pbsetup?
     
    klauza, Jul 24, 2009
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  5. renegg

    renegg Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you man. I will give it a try and see if it works. At least I hope so.
     
    renegg, Jul 24, 2009
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    frank633 Notebook Consultant

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    It should work... :p I had this problem before updating mine^^
     
    frank633, Jul 24, 2009
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    crash NBR Assassin

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    Yea, I have to update PunkBuster manually from time to time. Also, if that doesn't work you may need to add more permissions for PnkBstrA.exe in your firewall settings.
     
    crash, Jul 24, 2009
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  8. renegg

    renegg Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeah I updated manually Punk Buster and everything worked, thank you
     
    renegg, Jul 24, 2009
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