[cod] PB sizes/MD5

[Eduardo E. Silva]

Most hacks are DIrectX hacks. These include fog, color models etc. This PB
is just smoke  and mirrors then?. Can they compile a list of DX9
versions, and if you are not in that list you can't play ? I thought that
COD2 requires 9.0c period!
In my server  I see a total of
286 d3d9.dll checks, with 'B' taking 256, 'A' taking 28 and the remaining
two neing of size 1689600.
Brian Dessent wrote:
>
"Eduardo E. Silva" wrote:
> 
>> 1.0 Why are
they different ?
>> 2.0 Is B the correct one?
>> 3.0
How can I tell PB to kick incorrect sizes/MD5 ?
>>
>> A) PunkBuster Server: [From #1 d70(VALID) ^9rsun ^3!
^7dTx^9>^3S^9<]
>> My dx C:\WINDOWS\System32\d3d9.dll
size=1703936
>> md5=0E51BD586D186F61A9E4453DB8AEC774
>>
>> B) PunkBuster Server: [From #2 dc1(VALID)
^7[^4DYB^7]>>^4SLICK^7<<] My
>> dx
C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d9.dll size=1689088
>>
md5=D67BDBBDA86CC9AEEBBAF3217C1717D8
> 
> That sounds like
the kind of thing that's going to vary depending on the
>
particular patch level of DirectX that the user has installed, e.g.
9.0,
> 9.0a, 9.0c, etc.  Microsoft tends to make these minor
little tweaks all
> the time so just saying "DirectX 9"
seems to actually mean a whole
> spectrum of minor revisions.
> 
> Unless you're going to force everyone to use the exact
same identical
> version of DirectX I doubt you'd ever see the
same MD5 for that file.
> There's enough problems just getting
clients to turn on auto-download, I
> can't imagine anyone
expecting them to install a specific patchlevel of
> DX.  I'm not
too familiar with PB but I'd expect that you could specify
>
multiple correct hashes, otherwise that check seems pretty ridiculous.
> 
> Brian
> 
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Thanks,
Ed Silva
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