Call of duty 4 crashes in Windows 8.

Anonymous
2012-11-15T04:18:36+00:00

My COD4PC has stopped working once upgraded to Windows 8, the error I am receiving is caused by a Punk buster malfuction, caused by a faulty module named "PBCL.DLL" in the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Call of Duty 4\pb" folder, playing in non punkbuster servers will run fine, then when I go into PB enabled servers the game will result in a crash. *Worked fine in Windows 7.

Error from Event Viewer:

Faulting application name: iw3mp.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4859a219

Faulting module name: pbcl.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x50522bb2

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x0000d08e

Faulting process id: 0x23b4

Faulting application start time: 0x01cdbec1d13fa23f

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Call of Duty 4\iw3mp.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Call of Duty 4\pb\pbcl.dll

Report Id: 5db6d05a-2ab5-11e2-be6c-4437e60a3958

Faulting package full name:

Faulting package-relative application ID:

Original title : COD4PC Crashing - Punkbuster (PBCL.DLL)

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-01-12T13:33:12+00:00

    I love war and strategy games...I''ll go far and beyond to get them working!

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-01-12T21:21:45+00:00

    I´ve tried every time of advise in the net, related with CoD4 and punkbuster under Windows 8. The problem is that Windows 8 and punkbuster are not compatible. You either get a punkbuster error or a iw3mp.exe COD4 crash. In any way you will be kicked of the game between 30 seconds and a max. of 5 minutes. I agree with others in this thread: either I get a fix soon or get my 2-days-old windows 8 "upgraded" to windows 7. I prefer my favorite games than a bunch of widgets for which I have my Android tablet.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-01-12T21:46:43+00:00

    Omg dude it worked! I said earlyer that it didn't work but i tried it again and now i have been playing for about an hour! Cheeers buddy !!

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-01-13T07:51:27+00:00

    OMFG same thing as me! I feel your pain! I have tried contacting steam: https://support.steampowered.com/view.php?ticketref=1501-YOJK-4728

    but they do not seem to be responding after 4 days. I can't play on non-pb servers. Too many hackers. They really need to fix this.

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-01-13T15:16:29+00:00

    hey gravityforce;

    Since i see you have a solution that seem to work; i tried clicking your link. It says the page can't be opened. Could you please send a proper link from this new iw3mp.exe so i can test if it works:D?

    Great,

    Freek

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