{"id":6475,"date":"2013-12-23T21:22:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T10:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=6475"},"modified":"2013-12-23T21:22:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T10:22:03","slug":"repair-punkbuster-for-battlefield-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/repair-punkbuster-for-battlefield-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Repair PunkBuster for Battlefield 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I have been out of BF3 for a while given the story state of affairs I was in regarding 3D video performance but with the acquisition of a new EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Superclocked video card it is time to give it another go. However, upon firing it up I found that i was being kicked by PunkBuster due to a <strong>Service Communication Error<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I assumed this to be a problem with the server communicating with PunkBuster on my computer which seemed to be installed properly. At any rate, I decided that reinstalling PunkBuster would be the best course of attack and this is how you do it:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Locate your Battlefield 3 folder,<\/li>\n<li>Browse through <strong>__Installer<\/strong> then <strong>punkbuster<\/strong> then <strong>redist<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Double click <strong>pbsvc<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Follow the options to install or repair PunkBuster,<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That fixed the issue up for me in a jiffy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I have been out of BF3 for a while given the story state of affairs I was in regarding 3D video performance but with the acquisition of a new EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Superclocked video card it is time to give it another go. However, upon firing it up I found that i &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/repair-punkbuster-for-battlefield-3\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,18],"tags":[2182,2181],"class_list":["post-6475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-technology","tag-battlefield-3","tag-punkbuster","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}