punkbuster kick

[Groosman]

Game disconnected: you were kicked by PunkBuster. Stated reason: PunkBuster kicked player 'Groosman' (for 0 minutes) ... RESTRICTION: Service Communication Failure: PnkBstrA.exe
 
This is the error I get... I have already tried disabling my antivirus and firewall.. no help I get kicked before I even get into a game.  Punkbuster says it updated and good to go.. what ever... HELP PLEASE!!!!! this has happened before and I do not want to have to unistall everything but my operating system and reinstall it all again.. sigh...

Thanks in advance and listening to me bitch...

Groosman   

[digitalcassette]

marpla had this last night or the night before - it's the anti-virus

punkbuster is acting like a virus/trojan so the anti-virus is killing it and then BF3 goes "WTF!" and you get booted

talk to marpla or anyone else who posts here and had experienced it

[TigerShark]

You can search Google, but when this has happened to me before, I manually execute the pnkbuster update, (should be a punkbuster folder under your BF3 install directory I would expect) and I was fine after.  It runs a dos shell update, that you should be able to see results of in the DOS window it pops. (or did last I ran it ).

It's frustrating I know

Hope that helps.

-Tiger

[Groosman]

 Thanks guys... I had some weird stuff going on so i nuked it and am starting over.... Man i need a newer machine...

Hope to be back on in a couple days and see what else comes up..

[marpla]

I fix without disable the antivirus, you just to make some exlusions but in some other parts of avast, i can show you.