Rainbow Six to be “supported” by PunkBuster – Ban is still the issue

January 26th, 2006 - 
PunkBuster update

Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. has contracted with Even Balance, Inc. to integrate our PunkBuster™ Anti-Cheat software into the online game known as Rainbow Six: Lockdown™ which will soon be released worldwide.

Poor users of Rainbow Six. Well actually I think PunkBuster is a needed evil. However, as with the legal system, some people are caught and sentenced to life imprisonment by mistake. PunkBuster Bans users with their GUID, Global Unique ID. They also use a Hardware profile of the users to prevent users from ever gaming on PunkBuster-supported games in the future.

Normally, in the legalsystem, your free once you’ve served your time in prison. With PunkBuster you’ll be in prison forever. No middle sentence, like a few years, a month, a week or the like. Even if you think you got out of prison early for good behaviour, PunkBuster still bans your hardware. This means, you have to buy yourself a new computer, to play your favourite game online again.

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Again, I recommend PunkBuster and Even Balance, to reconsider, to shorten from life imprisonment, to i.e. months. Real cheaters would probably also think twice from trying out those hacks for the games.

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PunkBuster help – Online Countermeasures help

January 14th, 2006 - 

Banned by PunkBuster ? Would you like to get unbanned, then here are some helping hints, on how to unban from a PunkBuster (PB) Ban or Hardware ban. Even Balance or PB uses your account ID or even a hardware ID from YOUR computer.

BTW: I found this Battlefield 2 T-shirt for you:
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Your computer may be banned from playing your favourite online game forever. This guide will help you remove your hardware ban or GUID ban. Just make sure you do not cheat afterwards. Read on.

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How to get unbanned from Punkbuster – Unban GUID Hardware Ban and Global Ban – PB and evenbalance

January 9th, 2006 - 

If you receive a global hardware ban If you are so unlucky as to get a ban from Punkbuster, a global ban, hardware ban, in your computer game, there is a solution for you. It takes a little knowledge, but most people can do it, or know someone that can help remove the ban. Punkbuster is surely not there for you, nor Evenbalance, that handles the bans for Punkbuster (PB).

Banmessages from PunkBuster

You ban-message could be like one of these:

“You have been permanently banned”
“You have been permanently banned from this Game Server via PunkBuster GLOBAL PunkBuster GUID BAN”

This usually means that: * Punkbuster has scanned your harddrive for a “hardwareserialnumber” and has saved it * Punkbuster has scanned your “MACadress” and saved it (taken from your identifiable networkcard) * Punkbuster has saved your CD-key or DVD-key

How to remove hardwareban

  1. Install a new Harddrive (HD). You need a new Harddrive-serial. The only was is a new harddrive. You could also set the old HD to “RAID 0” in your BIOS.
  2. Disable “LAN” in “BIOS”
  3. Install a new Networkcard, or at first put it in another slot. This is to change your MACadress.
  4. You can also change your MACadress with many freeware tools online
  5. You can try to play the game now. If you get a window/message mentioning a “GUID BAN”, your gameserial is banned. Then you need a new serial for the game also. Buy a new game. Some have the extra hardware needed, but most need to get a new game CD. Make sure you have no cheats installed, and good luck.

Google: “Disable LAN in BIOS”
Google: “Change MAC adress”
Google: “Setup RAID in BIOS”
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Games supported by Punkbuster Download:

America’s Army, Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2, Battlefield Vietnam, Call of Duty, DOOM 3, Enemy Territory, Far Cry Joint Operations: Typoon Rising Quake III Arena, Quake 4 Return to Castle Wolfenstein Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield Soldier of Fortune II

PB keywords and misspellings:

Punkbuster, GUID Ban, hardware ban, global hardware ban, evenbalance, pb, Hardwar ban, Hardwareban serialban, GUI BAN, GUIDBan, battelfield 2, battlefield 2, battlefield 2, punkbuser, punk Buster
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UPDATE:
In order to get you unbanned, you can obtain a new CD key from EA-games, if you i.e. have been banned from BF2. Read this support page from EA-games:
http://support.ea.com/

How to unban global hardware ban from PunkBuster

December 19th, 2005 - 
How to unban PunkBuster Global Hardware Ban

I was banned. I want to be unbanned and a few people contributed to a way through. I’ve not tested the setup myself, but has been told by others that it works.

I’ve also read about cheats that can unban you, cheat PunkBuster, but I have no idea how to work them. Some of these cheats are only available in closed clans or the like.

Here is how to unban you from PunkBuster (pb). BTW.. Evenbalance that handles the bans for PB will never tell you why you’ve been banned.

Unban Global Hardware Ban

1) Get a new hardrive or set your current hardrive(s) up in RAID (RAID 0 is best for games) If your motherboard does not support it then get a RAID controller.

2) Get a new NIC (Ethernet card)…make sure you disable remove any ond cards. And be sure you disable any firewire 1394 ports (will show up under network connections)

3) If you get a new harddrive and it isn’t set up in RAID don’t use your old one. PB scans every hd you have connected. You can still use them just disconnect them before you play BF2. One option for old HD’s would be to get an external enclosure so it would be easier to plug in.

4) Try experimenting with the console, try is putting in console sv_pb_security 0. That might also just work.

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