Ok, so tried to buy a copy of CoD4 for my girlfriend. CD-Rom wasn't working and didn't want to wait for a new shipment to come in so bought it off of Steam. Two and a half hours later the download finally completes and we're psyched to play. BUT, start up multiplayer and first thing I get is "Error. Unable to initialize PunkBuster. PunkBuster is Disabled." SO, tried going through a friend of mine who gave me the idea of downloading through Steam and opened the PB folder in C:\Program Files\Steam\Steamapps\common\call of duty 4\PB. Now the only files located in this folder are: eula.txt, pbgame.htm, pbsec.htm, pbsetup.exe, and pbsvc.exe. Was told to try pbsvc.exe to reinstall PunkBuster, did that twice and both times it passed its test. Tried the game, no dice. Now what struck me as peculiar is that when I ran pbsetup.exe, it didn't have any games whatsoever associated to it. So tried going to Add Game, but, not a single game to be chosen from the drop-down menu. So tried just typing in the game path but wouldn't let me enter it without selecting something from the drop down. Also am running this on her comp on XP (running mine on Vista and already had my fun with those problems) and most of the suggestions I've seen are only for Vista users. So pleeeeeease try to help me out in any way. Would extremely dislike having to uninstall and reinstall through steam with the download times >.> Any help here would be appreciated or you can contact me at kemokyle@hotmail.com

Um you may want to go to the PB webstie clear all your PB files but remember the location. Reinstall the PB set up thing and look for updates under cod4 put the new files into the old location

if that doesnt work im not sure

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