BF2S Forums PunkBuster Violation (GAME HOOK) #125003

Well, I know a few others times when PB updated, people got banned for no reason. They fixed this not long after reports were made to them.

But, right now:

Cheat/Hack Violations:
When PunkBuster detects a cheat or hack by repeated positive identification on a player's computer, a violation is raised. These violation numbers are 50000 and higher. Families of cheats are listed below. Resolution: Remove cheats and hacks from the computer.
#50000s - Aimbot
#60000s - Wallhack
#70000s - Multihack
#80000s - Gamehack
#90000s - 'Cheat' Video Drivers
#100000s - Speedhack
#110000s - Autofire
#120000s - Game Hook
#130000s - Attempted PunkBuster Hack

So, apparently it's a hack/cheat?

On Thursday and Sunday the PB software was updated and I saw plenty of kicks when this happened, some of them labeled with #125003 gamehook message, esp. after Thursday's update. Manually update your PB client software - download PBSETUP from http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=dl-bf2.php and run it, it should fix your troubles.

I can't remember exactly what a "hook" is but I'm pretty sure it's a script that is meant to bypass the games programming and download all the positions of all the players in a game for later displaying (basically the prereq to a wallhack.)

Although they can be used for other things, and there are such things as false positives...

A "game hook", in the days of old. When men were men and the lastest news was the crusades.... Well, amybe not THAT long ago, but in computer terms it might as well have been.....

A "game hook", simply means that you have a process running that is "hooked onto" your game process. Normally in an attempt to change the code on the fly. These things are normally:

1) A no-cd patch thingy
   -  Try reinstalling the game
2) An in-memory trainer or other 3rd party add-on
   -  Dont use these
3) Anti virus or spyware that scans (and for some reason wont release it's hold over) your process
   -  Try disabling your spyware or AV softwaare, and change provider if this solves your problem
4) A driver that identifies the BF2 process and attempts to "improove" your performce (ie: cheat the hardware testers to get better reviews)
   -  Try renaming the BF2.exe file and then start the game.

Hey guys - found out the problem! heres a quote:

cheesebastrd wrote:

I just finished talking to PB tech support. The problem is that I have the DX9 SDK installed (I'm a software developer and I use DX9). At some point during debugging a problem I turned on the DX9 debugging which will now cause this violation.

To fix it all you need to to is go to the DX control panel and change it back to the retail version (under the Direct3D tab).

Plus I get a decent perfomance boost.