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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Also this is how evenbalance use the web tool for ET <A href="http://www.evenbalance.com/publications/et-ad/index.htm#webtool">http://www.evenbalance.com/publications/et-ad/index.htm#webtool</A> again may not be the same but could be a reference to see how they have implemented it for other games. </DIV>
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<DIV>hth</DIV>
<DIV>Richard.<BR><BR><B><I>"Daniel M. Temme" <cod@schlechteverlierer.de></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Wednesday 21 April 2004 11:08, Richard Harrison wrote:<BR>> Try http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=support-cod.php<BR><BR>That's not particularly helpful. Mailinglist subscription doesn't work for me <BR>and the download section is outdated and has a broken link for the one file <BR>that interest me.<BR><BR>I really can't stress how much I want documentation. Reading the following <BR>from evenbalances site isn't really making me feel too cozy...<BR>"PB Servers have an optional built-in mini http web server interface that <BR>allows the game server to be remotely administered via a web browser from <BR>anywhere over the Internet"<BR><BR>Now, I'm certain it isn't running now but I would still prefer to know what <BR>it's doing.<BR><BR>On a related paranoid note I'd also like to know what happens when pb <BR>auto-updates. Is it just hack definitions or dll/so's? The idea of
<BR>automaticly downloading and executing code just doesn't sound particularly <BR>sexy to me. I didn't like Steam doing this for CS and would like to avoid <BR>that with CoD/pb, too. But maybe that's an issue I should take up with the pb <BR>mailinglist once it let's me subscribe.<BR><BR>Have a nice day<BR>-- <BR>Daniel M. Temme<BR>http://schlechteverlierer.de</BLOCKQUOTE>