[cod] Punkbuster

[Richard Harrison]

My understanding of it is
 
When you have punkbuster running, it periodically checks to see if there is any updates to d/l. If it does then it d/l's them with the extension of .htm. The .htms are not in plain text so you cannot read them. It then converts them into a file with a .dll extension and uses them as reference files. Its sort of like DAT files for Anti Virus updates. 
 
This is the way it works for all PB enabled games, so unfortunatly if you dont like it there is next to no chance of getting them to change it.
 
Now i havent d/l 1.4 yet so i cant be sure if evenbalance  have radically changed things, but If you want to see how Punkbuster works within another game then take a look at this page which is about ET's verison of PB.http://www.rtcw.jolt.co.uk/index.php?page=&action=show&id=4019 The cvars wont be the same but it shows the how you can tweak some stuff to get different tollerances. 

 
Also this is how evenbalance use the web tool for ET http://www.evenbalance.com/publications/et-ad/index.htm#webtool again may not be the same but could be a reference to see how they have implemented it for other games. 
 
hth
Richard.

"Daniel M. Temme" <cod at schlechteverlierer.de> wrote:
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 11:08, Richard Harrison wrote:
> Try http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=support-cod.php

That's not particularly helpful. Mailinglist subscription doesn't work for me 
and the download section is outdated and has a broken link for the one file 
that interest me.

I really can't stress how much I want documentation. Reading the following 
from evenbalances site isn't really making me feel too cozy...
"PB Servers have an optional built-in mini http web server interface that 
allows the game server to be remotely administered via a web browser from 
anywhere over the Internet"

Now, I'm certain it isn't running now but I would still prefer to know what 
it's doing.

On a related paranoid note I'd also like to know what happens when pb 
auto-updates. Is it just hack definitions or dll/so's? The idea of 
automaticly downloading and executing code just doesn't sound particularly 
sexy to me. I didn't like Steam doing this for CS and would like to avoid 
that with CoD/pb, too. But maybe that's an issue I should take up with the pb 
mailinglist once it let's me subscribe.

Have a nice day
-- 
Daniel M. Temme
http://schlechteverlierer.de
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