Disabling PR shaders

Nicolaisen · Post by **Nicolaisen** » 2008-04-06 20:40

well i think its my turn to report in what problem i have....

as i can read through they other posts there is some ideas on how to fix this punkbuster problem..
i took a screenshot if my problem, and maybe someone can tell me what i need to do to get this fixed..

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i updated PB 4 days ago, delete all my cache files in my documents\bf2\mods\bf2\cache\* and bf2\logocache\*

i also re-installed the patch and that didnt help.. any advice to fix this ?
i get this error after playing like 20-30 mins of the map..

best regard
Nicolaisen

Jagular · Post by **Jagular** » 2008-04-07 14:44

its not PB related problem -> no need to update PB as crasy

Nicolaisen · Post by **Nicolaisen** » 2008-04-07 15:29

oh ok.. any idea what it is?
do i need to reinstall the game ?

General_J0k3r · Post by **General_J0k3r** » 2008-04-07 16:01

Nicolaisen wrote:well i think its my turn to report in what problem i have....

as i can read through they other posts there is some ideas on how to fix this punkbuster problem..
i took a screenshot if my problem, and maybe someone can tell me what i need to do to get this fixed..

screenshot
[ATTACH]1657[/ATTACH]

i updated PB 4 days ago, delete all my cache files in my documents\bf2\mods\bf2\cache\* and bf2\logocache\*

i also re-installed the patch and that didnt help.. any advice to fix this ?
i get this error after playing like 20-30 mins of the map..

best regard
Nicolaisen

reinstall shouldn't be necessary. do you start PR with the PR.exe or the BF2.exe? usually, it should work then (at least on Thors Brigade, dunno about the other servers, but i suppose your talking bout our server

).

Mora · Post by **Mora** » 2008-04-07 16:12

Reinstall the vbf2 1.41 patch.

and if you have a problem with the gamelogicinit.con

Download this and put it in your pr folder.

Nicolaisen · Post by **Nicolaisen** » 2008-04-07 16:49

General_J0k3r wrote:reinstall shouldn't be necessary. do you start PR with the PR.exe or the BF2.exe? usually, it should work then (at least on Thors Brigade, dunno about the other servers, but i suppose your talking bout our server ).

yep im playing on the Thor Brigade server and having this problem, but i was checking my changes again just in case, and found out that i started the bf2.exe file instead of pr.exe, gonna try out tonight at see how it looks, hopefully it would help out.

thanks

Darktrooper · Post by **Darktrooper** » 2008-04-07 18:10

Nicolaisen wrote:yep im playing on the Thor Brigade server and having this problem, but i was checking my changes again just in case, and found out that i started the bf2.exe file instead of pr.exe, gonna try out tonight at see how it looks, hopefully it would help out.

I got the same problem (shaders) although i'm actually using pr.exe (shorcut created at the installation...) That happpened today on the TacticalGamers server. I've played more than one hour on the Heroes server then without any problem, and i spend a few hours yesterday on others servers (don't remember names, maybe T&T and an Insurgency server...) without any problem neither.

Any idea ?

(and of course, shaders are working^^)

gnirtS · Post by **gnirtS** » 2008-04-07 23:24

Similar issue here.
Some PR servers work fine but others kick me for md5 mismatch on shaders.

Have manually reinstalled punkbuster and updated it.

RIP and tacticalgamer server kick me all the time for it and no idea what the issue is. I really cant face reinstalling the whole game again

General_J0k3r · Post by **General_J0k3r** » 2008-04-08 11:40

Nicolaisen wrote:yep im playing on the Thor Brigade server and having this problem, but i was checking my changes again just in case, and found out that i started the bf2.exe file instead of pr.exe, gonna try out tonight at see how it looks, hopefully it would help out.

thanks

it should work then. im looking forward to meeting you on our server

Clypp · Post by **Clypp** » 2008-04-09 01:48

If anyone is being kicked because of a mismatch on levelname/client.zip rather than shaders_client.zip it is probably due to your use of my customized topographical maps (see sig for link). I am PMing Jaymz (who is doing the MD5 change?) and hope to hear a response from the devs soon.

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Post by **77SiCaRiO77** » 2008-04-09 03:04

i use my digital camo for the PLA and got kiked last night

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too bad i forgot where is the PR object_client backup

Code · Post by **Code** » 2008-04-09 12:27

Hmm, am I the only one not able to run the shortcut?

I get an error in Windows Vista, 32bit - which says
"You must run this executable as an administrator due to a bug in Windows - see Security Update MS00-024 Breaks SHGetFolderPath in Shfolder.dll - access is denied.

Yes, i am running in compatibility and Administrator mode. Nothing works? That link directs to an Internet explorer 6 update..?

Edit -

Running off F:\BF2\ dir, shortcut looks like this..

F:\BF2\pr.exe +modPath mods/pr +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +restart

Had to move the pr.exe into the BF2 folder as it was saying BF2.exe not found.

Post by **Deadfast** » 2008-04-09 12:51

Does the edit mean that you got it to work?

arn354 · Post by **arn354** » 2008-04-09 20:37

If anyone is being kicked because of a mismatch on levelname/client.zip rather than shaders_client.zip it is probably due to your use of my customized topographical maps (see sig for link). I am PMing Jaymz (who is doing the MD5 change?) and hope to hear a response from the devs soon.

There is no problem in adding a second check for the file you modified to include those customized topographical maps.

Sent me a link to the file and it's changes to the stock once (what you have added and all other people will add - would be better to offer a download for that file - unzipping, zipping causes sometimes slight differences if done by different people and on different ways).
We can add a second valid check for each client.zip - so no one gets kicked - neither the ones using the standard maps, nor the ones using the topographical maps.

btw - those topographical maps look far better then the original ones - especially for pr.

Code · Post by **Code** » 2008-04-09 22:07

Deadfast wrote:Does the edit mean that you got it to work?

Nope - highly frustrating.

1) - Running in admin mode, compatibility mode
2) - Edited shortcut to the above to see if i can make it work - nope.

Doubt a fresh install will work, as it seems vista wont let me run that shortcut for some reason. Even with UAC off etc.

Code · Post by **Code** » 2008-04-09 22:17

Also, this thread https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27-pr ... vista.html
is exactly whats happening to me, and the only way for me to fire up PR is through BF2.exe etc - which is how the poster solved their problem. But the new shader check means, that doesnt work.

Help?