[cod] PB sizes/MD5

[Robert Mount]

I believe i read somewhere that PB has the DX hashes built in, but i
may be mistaken.  So having them in your MD5 checks doesn't add any
benefit.

Someone jump in if i'm way off base :-)

On 6/8/06, Eduardo E. Silva <esilva at silvex.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
>
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed Silva
> Silvex Consulting Inc.
> esilva at silvex.com
> (714) 504-6870 Cell
> (714) 908-1730 Fax
>
> The information contained in this email is confidential, intended solely for
> the addressee, and may be legally privileged. Access to this email by other
> persons is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any
> disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken
> in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful.