Re: Kicked by PunkBuster : RESTRICTION: Service Communication Failure: PnkBstrB.

by jdid13r
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Kicked by PunkBuster : RESTRICTION: Service Communication Failure: PnkBstrB.exe

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Hello

 

EA and PunkBuster are starting to ruin my life (I don't know if I'm kidding...)

 

After the Battlefield Hardline didn't start properly (issue still unresolved, starting 4 month ago)

 

Now, its the turn for Battlefield 4 !

 

Just bought it, installed properly etc... but after 2min of playing, the games closes and I have this in Battlelog :

 

Game disconnected: you were kicked by PunkBuster. Stated reason: PunkBuster kicked player 'MicrosoftAzure' (for 0 minutes) ... RESTRICTION: Service Communication Failure: PnkBstrB.exe initialization failed

 


As I'm a good guy, I lost my time searching the forums and trying solutions that didn't worked.

 

I'm on PC, here are my specs :

 

- Windows 10 Pro x64

- Intel i7-4700HQ @3.6Ghz

- Nvidia GTX770M

- 16GB Memory

- 750GB @7200RPM

 

I'm on logged in using an Admin account

 

What I did to solve the issues :

 

- Reinstalled Windows 10

- Disabled my antivirus (Kaspersky Internet Security 2015)

- Disabled Windows Defender

- Disabled Windows Firewall (and any installed firewall)

- Port Forwarded in my router

- Set ISP Router's Firewall on "Low"

- Reinstalled all the games using Origin

- Checked and repaired using Origin

- Used sfc /scannow  command to fix Windows System Files - no error

- (Re) Installed Punkbuster

After doing this, my Battlefield 3, which was running fine, stopped working and kept showing me Punkbuster errors

Battlefield Harline is still not running.

- Set compatibility mode on Windows 7

- Reinstalled Visual Redists (from 2005 to 2015, both x86 & x64)

- Reinstalled DirectX

- Reinstalled NET Framework (last version)

 

As you may see, NOTHING worked, not to say it messed up my computer,  and now I can't play any games (in Multiplayer mode)

 

Yes, I'm on a 1Gbps line, yes I can redownload the games easily, BUT don't tell me to do things I've already done !

 

Thanks in advance...

 

 

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Re: Kicked by PunkBuster : RESTRICTION: Service Communication Failure: PnkBstrB.

When you reinstalled Punkbuster did you manually add Bf4 to the PB installation? If not go back and do that part as that step seems to solve this issue most of the time.

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Re: Kicked by PunkBuster : RESTRICTION: Service Communication Failure: PnkBstrB.

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Hello

 

Yes, I've added it when I reinstalled

 

still not working

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