it wont install punkbuster anticheat for cod4

[Everpine]

i just bought cod4 a couple of hours ago but it is still on step 1 of 2 for installing the anticheat software. is this normal? if not what can i do and how can i do it, any help would be appreciated

[nickwithtea]

you can manually install punkbuster from evenbalance.com

[Everpine]

thanks for the advice

[jimmyzen]

I have the same issue. It NEVER worked, no problems show in the local file check. I have tried launching it from the Steam/COD4 folder and I tried downloading it from evenbalance. It will install but that's it. I can manually launch it but it still isn't recognized by the game. I tried linking COD4 to the PB window but it won't accept anything from the COD4 folders in my Steam folder. I have tried linking every even remotely executable looking file and it still won't accept it or work. In fact, nothing shows up on the drop down menu in spite of having almost 200 games installed between Steam and my hard drive. And I do mean NOTHING shows up!

If there's a good side to this it's that I waited until it was on sale and didn't buy it when it was still $60.

[skravex]

this happned to me just now piece of shiiii they wonder why no one games on pc pfff garbage

[Cathulhu]

Wow, pulling out a three year old thread for that garbage.
No one plays on PC? Says a guy that played for almost thirty hours in the last two weeks. Not to mention the fact that Steam has a peak usage of 12.6 MILLION users online at the same time and has more than 100 MILLION active accounts. Which is more than the sale numbers of XBox One and PS4 combined.
XBox One 20 million, source: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/128204/20160201/microsoft-sold-20-million-xbox-one-units-to-consumers.htm
PS4 35 million, source: http://www.ibtimes.com/ps4-vs-xbox-one-sony-has-sold-over-35-million-playstation-4-consoles-2013-launch-2250196

Steam, 125 million, source: http://kotaku.com/there-are-over-125-million-steam-accounts-1687820875
And that number is over a year old and the peak did increase quite a bit since then, from 8.9million to over 12million at the moment.

Back to topic:
Send your complaints to Activision as they didn't bother updating the Punkbuster redistributable, meaning it's so old, it doesn't run on current OS anymore.

[Zolex ZORD]

9 years later and me sad

[Mike]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.