[Kybber]

When you set PB off in GC, all GC does is make sure that the config file
includes the '0' on this line:

sv_punkbuster 0

This is expected behaviour. However, if COD4 requires some more oddities
to turn off PB, which it seems that it does, then you should find out exactly
how to turn off PB for COD4 and recreate that in GC. For starters, I would
add +set sv_punkbuster 0 to the command line and see what happens.
It could be that this is a setting which can't be changed while the game is
running (which could be done through exec'ing files), and thus needs to be
on the command line. If this is indeed the case, simply modify the original
command line so it includes +set sv_punkbuster %pb%, and GC's PB selector
should work as expected.

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[Sprengel]

i tried to start the server manually with a copy of the gc command line. i tried to add "+set sv_punkbuster 0" to the command line, nothing changed.

the server was stopped at this time...

GC writes the "0" to the cfg-file, but i wonder why the server means this value is write protected. so that seems the server doesn't care if there is a "0" or "1"

[Kybber]

Unless you already tried, make sure +set sv_punkbuster 0 is somewhere at
the beginning of the command line, and definitely before the exec-statement
just to try and set it before it gets locked down. If COD4 doesn't allow PB
to be disabled (if so: bless them! ), then you are out of luck. In any case,
this seems to be primarily a COD4 issue, not a GC issue.

[Steve]

I ran +set sv_punkbuster 0 on the command line (right at the end) and PB doesn't load on the windows box I've tested on.

Just deselecting PB from the configuration menu doesn't seem to work, where the config file will then say set sv_punkbuster 0