[Sprengel]

Hey,

how can i disable punkbuster on starting cod4 linux server? if i choose "punkbuster = off" on configuration tab, it still seems to start punkbuster. if someone of my clan wants to connect, they receive the message, that they have to activate punkbuster.

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[Sprengel]

i guess gamecreate doesn't write the settings to server.cfg. i have set a rcon password and a join password, but it doesn't take effect.

what's wrong with it?

[Kybber]

GC doesn't write anything to server.cfg. It writes to %mod%/port%server:port%.cfg,
where %server:port% gets replaced with the port your server uses. Your cmd-
line must be configured to use that file instead of server.cfg. Can you post the
command-line here, as well as any PB-related parts from your port%server:port%.cfg
file?

The config file should have a line like this:

[Sprengel]

Thx Kybber for responding so fast.

When my cod4 server runs, i can find a default_server.cfg in /mods/ModWarfare

but in this file i cannot find anything about punkbuster

[Sprengel]

and the commandline shows

[Kybber]

default_server.cfg is irrelevant. You need to look for the port%server:port%.cfg
file in your callofduty4/main directory (provided you are not running any mods).
Do you have any such file? GC should create it a second or two before the
COD server is started.

Also, just to make sure you haven't overridden any command line settings
for your server, can you go to the server's overview page and post the actual
command line as it is stated there? If should have %server:port% replaced
with the server's actual port like this:

[Sprengel]

well, it's linux server. the command line is:

[Sprengel]

as a root i decompressed the server-package and wrote the rights of "2525" to the directory. "2525" seems to be the user, who has compressed all files to the tar-file.

gamecreate had no rights to write in /main.

chown -R gamecreate:users callofduty4 - and it runs...

[Kybber]

Ah, there you go then - glad you worked it out

[Sprengel]

thanks a lot

[Sprengel]

it wrote the file port28960.cfg, there is the line set sv_punkbuster 0

BUT when i wanna connect with the server, the game needs punkbuster to be installed. why?!?

i am sure the server uses this file, because i have set a password and the server shows it's locked with a password now.

[Kybber]

Not sure because, frankly, I've never seen the point in running a server
without punkbuster

Can you check whether the server actually uses PB, either from the ingame
server browser or from a tool such as game-monitor.com? You may have to
set the server up as an internet server and not a LAN server to do this.

[Sprengel]

you mean i have to set dedicated 2 to run the server without pb?

in game the info shows me "punkbuster is enabled"

[Kybber]

I don't know - I don't think so since it makes little sense, but as I said I don't
have any experience with this. But you may have to set it to dedicated 2 to
use the tools I mentioned to check.

However, you have already verified that it does indeed run PB, so don't worry
about it. You should check all the config files and see if there's one that perhaps
overrides the setting you have. Or perhaps there is another trick to disabling
PB for COD4-servers. This is most likely not a GC issue, but a COD4-issue.

You could try to disable PB from the command line before the exec-statement.
It may be that PB is enabled by default and before the config file is even read.

[Sprengel]

when i start the server on command line, there are two lines i cannot understand:


dedicated is read only.
sv_punkbuster is write protected.

why is sv_punkbuster write protected? on gamecreate configuration i can choose punkbuster = off?!?