Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a 2019 first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision.Serving as the sixteenth overall installment in the Call of Duty series, as well as a reboot of the Modern Warfare sub-series, it was released on October 25, 2019, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Experience Call of Duty: the world’s best-selling video game franchise. Discover the latest updates to this first person shooter series all in one place.
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 Valve Anti-Cheat System (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.
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 standalone update tool called PBSETUP 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.
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PunkBuster File Downloads
This brings us to one solution; user-to-user sharing of the latest downloaded PunkBuster files because there is no other way to get them at this point. You can download the necessary files below and simply copy the files from the download into the “pb” folder located within the respective Call of Duty game installation directory overwriting any files that are currently there.
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Call of Duty & Call of Duty: United Offensive
[fancy_link link=”http://www.callofdutyview.net/files/pb/cod_pb.zip”]cod_pb.zip[/fancy_link]
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Call of Duty & Call of Duty: United Offensive
[fancy_link link=”http://www.callofdutyview.net/files/pb/cod_pb.zip”]cod_pb.zip[/fancy_link]
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Call of Duty 2
[fancy_link link=”http://www.callofdutyview.net/files/pb/cod2_pb.zip”]cod2_pb.zip[/fancy_link]
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Call of Duty 2
[fancy_link link=”http://www.callofdutyview.net/files/pb/cod2_pb.zip”]cod2_pb.zip[/fancy_link]
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
[fancy_link link=”http://www.callofdutyview.net/files/pb/cod4mw_pb.zip”]cod4mw_pb.zip[/fancy_link]
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
[fancy_link link=”http://www.callofdutyview.net/files/pb/cod4mw_pb.zip”]cod4mw_pb.zip[/fancy_link]
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When Did Call Of Duty Warzone Release
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Call of Duty: World at War
[fancy_link link=”http://www.callofdutyview.net/files/pb/codwaw_pb.zip”]codwaw_pb.zip[/fancy_link]
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Call of Duty: World at War
[fancy_link link=”http://www.callofdutyview.net/files/pb/codwaw_pb.zip”]codwaw_pb.zip[/fancy_link]
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Call of Duty Installation Paths
If you are unsure of your Call of Duty game installation directory below are some common paths for each game.
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Call of Duty (UO is an expansion pack installed within)
Call of Duty (UO is an expansion pack installed within)
- C:Program FilesCall of Duty
- C:Program Files (x86)Call of Duty
- C:Program FilessteamsteamappscommonCall of Duty
- C:Program Files (x86)steamsteamappscommonCall of Duty
Call of Duty 2
- C:Program FilesActivisionCall of Duty 2
- C:Program Files (x86)ActivisionCall of Duty 2
- C:Program FilessteamsteamappscommonCall of Duty 2
- C:Program Files (x86)steamsteamappscommonCall of Duty 2
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- C:Program FilesActivisionCall of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare
- C:Program Files (x86)ActivisionCall of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare
- C:Program FilessteamsteamappscommonCall of Duty 4
- C:Program Files (x86)steamsteamappscommonCall of Duty 4
Call of Duty: World At War
When Did Call Of Duty Cold War Come Out
- C:Program FilesActivisionCall of Duty World at War
- C:Program Files (x86)ActivisionCall of Duty World at War
- C:Program FilessteamsteamappscommonCall of Duty World at War
- C:Program Files (x86)steamsteamappscommonCall of Duty World at War
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I recently did some hardware upgrades on my gaming system and did a fresh install of Windows 10 and upon trying to get these older Call of Duty games up and running correctly again I found myself spending quite a bit of time trying to figure out what was going on and how to get around these PunkBuster issues. With the many places I had to look and find things I thought it would be best to just put some information here collectively to help individuals going through this in the future. Thanks go to the following places for helping me gather information on this topic.
[fancy_link link=”http://www.currahees.net/forum/index.php?topic=4.0″ target=”blank”]Install and Update PunkBuster[/fancy_link]
[fancy_link link=”https://www.pbbans.com/forums/files/legacy-punkbuster-files-cat7.html” target=”blank”]Legacy PunkBuster Files[/fancy_link]
[fancy_link link=”https://www.pbbans.com/info-center-pbsvc.html” target=”blank”]PunkBuster Services Guide[/fancy_link]
[fancy_link link=”https://www.pbbans.com/info-center-pbsetup.html” target=”blank”]PunkBuster Setup Guide[/fancy_link]
[fancy_link link=”http://www.currahees.net/forum/index.php?topic=2.0″ target=”blank”]Call of Duty 2 on Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10[/fancy_link]
[fancy_link link=”https://www.pbbans.com/forums/files/legacy-punkbuster-files-cat7.html” target=”blank”]Legacy PunkBuster Files[/fancy_link]
[fancy_link link=”https://www.pbbans.com/info-center-pbsvc.html” target=”blank”]PunkBuster Services Guide[/fancy_link]
[fancy_link link=”https://www.pbbans.com/info-center-pbsetup.html” target=”blank”]PunkBuster Setup Guide[/fancy_link]
[fancy_link link=”http://www.currahees.net/forum/index.php?topic=2.0″ target=”blank”]Call of Duty 2 on Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10[/fancy_link]