2013-10-14 08:26 PM
There's a time before BF4 beta released, and my BF3 stopped working because of some weird Punkbuster problem. I thought it won't happen in BF4 so i didn't really care about it or try to fix it. But now i purchased BF4 and was trying to install, it pops up a window with "**ERROR: Failed to create PunkBuster service: Cannot create a file when that file already exists.", and then follows up with another window with "Error: A redistributable package (PunkBuster) was not installed successfully. Setup cannot continue. (5)". Then it just stopped, what should i do? I payed for it, but i can't play?!?!
December 2014
I am having the same problem as you do... Nobody helped me soo far. Don't know the cause.
November 2015
Go to this link, it helps me !
http://answers.ea.com/t5/Battlefield-4/PnkBusterB-exe-set-for-deletion/td-p/3045760