PunkBuster Background PunkBuster used to be the standard anti-cheat software used in older Call of Duty titles but now that Activision has switched their games to the Steam platform they have moved to a combination of anti-cheat measures through the (VAC) and Activision developer’s own in house anti-cheat technologies. As of 2013/2014 Even Balance has officially dropped PunkBuster support for older Call of Duty titles. My assumption is they had contracts with Activision to support these Call of Duty games for periods of time and when those contracts expired Activision made the decision to not renew those contracts because of the latest games being released.

*UPDATE* As of 1/14/2014, Evenbalance. Artrage 4 With Crack. com (the developers for Punkbuster) have fully dropped support for Call of Duty 4 (PC and Mac). Apr 22, 2010 I bought CoD: Modern Warfare on Steam today only to find that I got a 'Punkbuster is not initialized' error whenever trying to start up multiplayer.

There are still a lot of servers running PunkBuster in the older Call of Duty titles and if you can’t get your PunkBuster files updated on the client side you will most likely run into issues when joining or trying to play on PunkBuster enabled servers. Even Balance does offer a which you can download and run to manually add the Call of Duty games you have installed and force the update of local PunkBuster files but with the latest versions of PBSETUP released the older Call of Duty titles have been removed from the “supported games list”. There is some information out there that instructs you how to edit that “supported games list” which allows you to add the older Call of Duty titles back into PBSETUP – however now it seems Even Balance has also removed all of the Call of Duty download files from their servers so when you get the games added to PBSETUP and attempt to check for updates it just fails anyway. Download Johnson Sailmaster 8 Manual on this page.