InGame Punkbuster Screenshots [11 Nov 2011]

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Originally Posted by Clay52*:

 

As in nothing appears in your screenshot folder?

Zaeed, yeah don't know what to tell you, nothing in folder and does nothing in chat either.

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Originally Posted by DeadWalking*:

 

@clay52

Did you setup a PBSV.cfg?

 

it is pretty much a gotta have to get PB doing its job.

 

 

In PROCon got to the console tab, select the punkbuster console.

input the following commands notice to wait for a little bit for PB to restart.

 

I am not positive about pb_sv_USessionLimit 8, it may or may not be necessary. And you wont need to add the line marked with asterisks (for PBBAns). You can set it up for streaming but it will only be rejected on there side unless you setup a Streaming Admin account.

 

Upon running all the commands one by one into the PB console once you tell it to pb_sv_write.cfg it is going to do just that.

 

Now you shouild have a pb_sv.cfg in side you PB folders or accesible thru your GSP CP you then can add adjust all the settings pertaining to SS. Keep in mind some things are better off left as is.

 

Now with all of it running properly you may want to restart your bf3 server just to be sure and then you should be able to utilize the !ss command from in game AS LONG AS YOUR ACCOUNT IN PROCON HAS ACCESS TO THE PB_SV_GETSS COMMAND.

 

Code:

pb_sv_writecfg pbucon.use
pb_sv_restart

(Wait 30 seconds)

pb_sv_USessionLimit 8
pb_sv_uconadd 1 208.122.49.138 pbbhub1 pbbanshub *****USED ONLY FOR STREAMING TO PBBANS REQUIRES AN ACCOUNT
pb_sv_AutoUpdBan 1
pb_sv_task 0 7200 pb_sv_ver
pb_sv_task 0 86400 pb_sv_update
pb_sv_writecfg

To everyone else having trouble and Clay52 it might be a good thing to head over to evenbalance http://www.evenbalance.com/publicati...c-ad/index.htm

 

and dig thru the documentation on how PB operates for server admins.

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Originally Posted by BottomFeeders*:

 

How do I access the game servers punkbuster directory? I can't find an ftp access anywhere on my gameservers host page.

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

You'll need to talk to GameServers about that

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Originally Posted by BottomFeeders*:

 

k. thanks

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Originally Posted by Phil_K*:

 

Hi.

 

With gameservers.com you have to use the gametracker page of your server. In the small nav bar you find "Punkbuster". Click that and you get a page with the screenshots done. This is updated regularly but not in real-time or in the next 5 minutes.

 

Greets

Phil.

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Originally Posted by Clay52*:

 

sorry fellas, tried all suggestions, went to PB site etc etc still nothing...

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Originally Posted by LumpyNutZ*:

 

sorry fellas, tried all suggestions, went to PB site etc etc still nothing...

Do your screenshots work with this new procon 1.1.2.0 in that "players" tab? Try to take screenshot and immediately after trying go to "console"-tab and look if server tries to take punkbuster screenshot. If it tries it should look something like this:

PunkBuster Server: Screenshot 000058 Requested from 14 Xtrem_Judge_Jeff

PunkBuster Server: 1 Screenshot Requested

Then you should get something like this:

 

PunkBuster Server: Screenshot D:\UserFiles\8413\GameServers\TC242616035750855010 64663\pb\svss\pb000059.png successfully received (MD5=EF1234567891012134) from 36 Player_nick [PlayersGUID1234567890(-) 12.345.678.910:1111]

If your not getting neither of these in punkbuster console, theres something wrong in your ss confs. Or your provider has disabled them from you.

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Originally Posted by Phil_K*:

 

sorry fellas, tried all suggestions, went to PB site etc etc still nothing...

Take a look at http://forums.gameservers.com/viewtopic.php_f=9&t=47366 and the post the GS staff has done. There was a problem with the syncing server.

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Originally Posted by Clay52*:

 

Take a look at http://forums.gameservers.com/viewtopic.php_f=9&t=47366 and the post the GS staff has done. There was a problem with the syncing server.

Phil, I'm with NFO GSP, not GS...

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

Phil, I'm with NFO GSP, not GS...

Do you have the plugin enabled?

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Originally Posted by Clay52*:

 

Do you have the plugin enabled?

Are you serious?

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

You would be surprised how often people don't do it..

 

When you execute the command, does the punkbuster tab show that its taken a screenshot?

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Originally Posted by Clay52*:

 

Ok I got it working now, my site's been in development and now live, thus things are rather dynamic. But problem is they are all black.

 

Ok check that, some are not black but majority are.

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

Ok I got it working now, my site's been in development and now live, thus things are rather dynamic. But problem is they are all black.

 

Ok check that, some are not black but majority are.

There are other posts in this thread dealing with that.

 

In general though, its a directx issue that is mostly uncontrollable, however some people suggest certain settings that seem to work. I haven't tried them though.

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Originally Posted by propbndr*:

 

For some reason screen shots that are requested using the plugin OR from the player tab are showing up in the server but the file says

 

The only thing that shows up in the console for either way is: "Screenshot transfer was incomplete. ".

 

PunkBuster Server: Screenshot 000370 Requested from 7 10axl

PunkBuster Server: 1 Screenshot Requested

 

No further log entries show up.

 

This is a new development for me. It was working, now not.

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

For some reason screen shots that are requested using the plugin OR from the player tab are showing up in the server but the file says

 

The only thing that shows up in the console for either way is: "Screenshot transfer was incomplete. ".

 

PunkBuster Server: Screenshot 000370 Requested from 7 10axl

PunkBuster Server: 1 Screenshot Requested

 

No further log entries show up.

 

This is a new development for me. It was working, now not.

Talk to your GSP regarding that.

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Originally Posted by propbndr*:

 

Talk to your GSP regarding that.

I would but, we have 5 servers on 2 different GSP's and this happens on all of them.

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

I would but, we have 5 servers on 2 different GSP's and this happens on all of them.

Just means you have the same problem with both GSPs

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Originally Posted by ob1korobi*:

 

Thank you for this plugin. So far only black screenshots though but I will take that 20-25 percent success if it means catching evil doers.

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Originally Posted by ferrocomix*:

 

warking in BF3 too?

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Originally Posted by Guy0510*:

 

warking in BF3 too?

Yes, it works with BF3.

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Originally Posted by Anvil-bw*:

 

Nice THX

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Originally Posted by medicine-man*:

 

Are screen shots even effective any more due to the fact that most hacks are running SS spoofers. I have seen some amazing people 75/19 K/D Screen shot them only to see a plain wall, or black screen.

 

I thinkin one of the only way to deal with hacks are to have fraps running and follow the sorry sack around during a round.

 

I have taken loads of screens via procon GUI and none have turned up any evidence of cheats.

 

I'm not saying your plug in don't work but I feel the hacks have worked around the SS situation.

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Originally Posted by Blade_Repper*:

 

Are screen shots even effective any more due to the fact that most hacks are running SS spoofers. I have seen some amazing people 75/19 K/D Screen shot them only to see a plain wall, or black screen.

 

I thinkin one of the only way to deal with hacks are to have fraps running and follow the sorry sack around during a round.

 

I have taken loads of screens via procon GUI and none have turned up any evidence of cheats.

 

I'm not saying your plug in don't work but I feel the hacks have worked around the SS situation.

No they are not that effective. PB could not implement a good solution for screenshots.

It requests a screenshot from the game directly via a call to the game.

So all the cheats that use an overlay technique will not show up in the screenshot.

The only cheats that are detected are ones that still use DirectX and some of those now have screen shot detectors and will clean the screenshot before it is returned. By basically blocking the SS then turning off the hack then allow the screenshot to happen.

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Originally Posted by Crotan*:

 

Are screen shots even effective any more due to the fact that most hacks are running SS spoofers. I have seen some amazing people 75/19 K/D Screen shot them only to see a plain wall, or black screen.

 

I thinkin one of the only way to deal with hacks are to have fraps running and follow the sorry sack around during a round.

 

I have taken loads of screens via procon GUI and none have turned up any evidence of cheats.

 

I'm not saying your plug in don't work but I feel the hacks have worked around the SS situation.

You have to remember PBSS will not show an aimbot, or any other hack that does not have a visual component. PBBans has 180 BF3 bans from PBSS submitted that show actual hacks, like chams or bounding boxes. Anything more than visual hacks will have to be detected by PB or MD5 scans. Make sure you're streaming to an AntiCheat community as well, so any cheats you catch will get banned from all streaming servers not just your own community! Check out PBBans

 

No they are not that effective. PB could not implement a good solution for screenshots.

It requests a screenshot from the game directly via a call to the game.

So all the cheats that use an overlay technique will not show up in the screenshot.

The only cheats that are detected are ones that still use DirectX and some of those now have screen shot detectors and will clean the screenshot before it is returned. By basically blocking the SS then turning off the hack then allow the screenshot to happen.

While there are certainly blockers out there, and the ss system is archaic it is really only meant to supplement the current system. Uptodate detections from EvenBalance and MD5 scans have to do the brute force of the work.

 

Battlerecorder would be the ideal solution but even then the battlerecorder that was included in 2142 was not an acceptable method to show hacks beyond making judgement calls for local servers, Any demo application needs the added ability to be viewed in first person mode as the player for PBBans to accept it. As they do with COD4 demos.

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Originally Posted by DaBIGfisH*:

 

hi Zaeed,

 

when i want to integrate PB screenshots into my KillrateChecker code, then i have to write the following_:

 

this.ExecuteCommand("procon.protected.send", "punkBuster.pb_sv_command", "pb_sv_getss " + "playername");

 

and "playername" is one of the names in my dictionaries? does this work so simple?

 

why i want sshots: everytime an suspicious player gets detected, a PB sshot shall saved on the server.

 

regards, dabigfish

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Originally Posted by Singh400*:

 

Can we get some sort of feedback as to whether the server received the command? I can do @ss Singh400 fine, but I don't get any feedback as to whether the command was successful.

 

Also, particularly complicated names. Would it be possible to use the same sort of algorithm that the in-game admin plug-in uses to match correct names?

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

Can we get some sort of feedback as to whether the server received the command? I can do @ss Singh400 fine, but I don't get any feedback as to whether the command was successful.

 

Also, particularly complicated names. Would it be possible to use the same sort of algorithm that the in-game admin plug-in uses to match correct names?

It does that.

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Originally Posted by skiba*:

 

i cant find this folder with the sreenshots...