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
    2013-01-21T22:17:41+00:00

    Hello!

    Try to update bink video tools.

    Download and install this programhttp://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm

    • open or run the program....when installation is completed, run the game

    Or back to old school.....

    1. go to the dircetory and select iwmp3
    2. right click and select properties
    3. click on the capability tab
    4. tick the checkbox that says Run this program in capability mode for
    5. click the windows option box and choose **windows 7 (**or try other windows Vista/XP etc....if not successful)
    6. tick the checkbox that says Run this program as an adminisrtator click Apply and Ok

    Run the game...

    GravityForce - I downloaded the program, but I am not sure how I should be using it.  By the way, my experience with choosing other compatibility modes is that regardless of which one you choose, i.e. Win7, Vista, etc., you can boot into the game, but the mouse no longer works.  Even if you use the arrow keys to get around a bit, you cannot get to the part of the screen that allows you to choose a server to play.  So, I have not found anyway to actually play the game in any of the compatibility modes.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-01-21T22:36:58+00:00

    Dont have to open the game......

    right click on iwmp3 and choose properties and follow the rest of instructions I posted above....

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-01-21T22:46:45+00:00

    I did do the steps you mentioned above, re compatibility.  You can't actually select a server to play in, as the mouse doesn't work in any of the other compatibility modes.

    Dont have to open the game......

    right click on iwmp3 and choose properties and follow the rest of instructions I posted above....

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-01-21T23:45:05+00:00

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-01-22T17:52:30+00:00

    there is no working fix. it will never work until evenbalance updates punkbuster or Microsoft does a compatibility fix for it.

    I know they are just trying to help, but I wish people that don't have win8 and cod4 would stop posting fixes that don't work.

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