For PB Server Admins, messages are displayed to all players when a player joins who has a newer version of PB than what is currently running on the PB Server. When PB is not able to auto-update, various error messages are displayed. The PB Server software routinely checks with the master PB Servers and downloads new updates over the Internet when they become available and then distributes the new versions to connected PB Clients when players running an old version connect to the server.
Both components are designed to automatically keep themselves up to date with the latest versions of PunkBuster. There are two major components to the PunkBuster system: the PunkBuster Server (runs on game servers) and the PunkBuster Client (runs on players' playing machines while they play the game). For cases where the auto-update fails, we have created a utility called PBSetup. It certainly is in their best interest to do so.PunkBuster is designed to keep itself up to date using our proprietary auto-update system. My personal hope is that MS makes the needed changes to make its COMPATIBILITY SELECTIONS work as one would expect as they have stated - should be compatible with the majority of NEW games. This was the whole point here in bringing up the disparity between XP-SP3 operation, and Win7 operation with XP-SP3 mode selected to run the game. The fact that COD4 with Punkbuster works perfectly under XP-SP3 as its op system, says that the compatibility selection the user makes IS NOT FUNCTIONAL to the extent necessary to be NEW game friendly. In this case, COD4 is a newer game, a VERY popular one, that DOES NOT RUN under the XP-SP3 compatibility mode (as selected by the user) as one would expect it to, based on MS commentary. Hello All - the core reason I started this thread, aside from the obvious failure of Punkbuster to be compatible with Win7 RC, was that MS advertises and includes a COMPATIBILITY capability which, they state, should provide compatibility with NEWER programs.
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