[cod] UO Punkbuster

Crispy Beef crispy.beef at ntlworld.com
Wed Nov 21 11:23:09 EST 2007


That worked a treat, just fired up the server with PB running. Thanks for all
the help guys. :-)

Cheers,

Paul

Robert Mount wrote:
> Try updating PB with this:
> 
> http://websec.evenbalance.com/downloads/linux/pbsetup.run
> 
> To configure it do this (chmod +x that file first):
> ./pbsetup.run --add-game=cod --i-accept-the-pb-eula
> --add-game-path=/full/path/to/.callofduty
> 
> Once you've configured it, run the update portion like so:
> ./pbsetup.run -u
> 
> Also, you probably need these two vars in your command line:
> +set sv_homepath /full/path/to/.callofduty
> +set sv_basepath /full/path/to/.callofduty
> 
> Having "+set sv_punkbuster 1" in the command line negates the need for
> the pb_sv_enable in your config, so you can remove it.
> 
> --Rob
> 
> On Nov 21, 2007 5:14 AM, Crispy Beef <crispy.beef at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> On a slightly older topic that the recent discussions I am having some trouble
>> with punkbuster on my CoD:UO server (Gentoo Linux). I've been running it for a
>> while without PB but have decided that I want to enable this but I'm having
>> some trouble finding the information I need. I only run a single instance of
>> the game server so the pb directory resides in ~/.callofduty/, I don't run CoD
>> either, just UO.
>>
>> What do I need to put in that pb directory? Previously I've taken the content
>> from the install discs and then run the pbweb utility to update everything to
>> the latest version. Then when I start the server I have:
>>
>> coduo_lnxded +set sv_punkbuster 1 +set dedicated 2 +set net_ip xxx +set ttycon
>> 0 +sets gamestartup \"`date +"%F %T"`\" +exec master.cfg +map_rotate
>>
>> The master.cfg file contains general settings and the punkbuster stuff:
>>
>> pb_sv_enable
>> wait
>> set sv_punkbuster "1"
>>
>> However when the server fires up I'm told that sv_punkbuster is read only.
>> From research this says that this is due to the UO server running before the
>> PB server and hence the variable is read only, however I thought that running
>> the PB set part of the command line at the start should enable PB *before* UO
>> starts up?
>>
>> Any help would be most appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Paul
>>
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