Battlefield 2: Battlefield 2 Punkbuster "inadequate OS privileges" error

[azzkikur]

Ok, my neighbor got the game yesterday, but can't play online. Everytime he gets into a server, he get kicked and "Punkbuster Error: inadequate OS privileges" pops up. He can play singleplayer fine. We even formatted and reinstalled and it still doesn't fix it. I found a few places that supposedly had some fixes for this, but none worked. He's running XP Pro.

Hardware is:
Athlon 64 3000+
512MB ram
9800Pro

The demo worked fine. Thanks for any help.

 

[Concillian]

Ok, my neighbor got the game yesterday, but can't play online. Everytime he gets into a server, he get kicked and "Punkbuster Error: inadequate OS privileges" pops up. He can play singleplayer fine. We even formatted and reinstalled and it still doesn't fix it. I found a few places that supposedly had some fixes for this, but none worked. He's running XP Pro.

Hardware is:
Athlon 64 3000+
512MB ram
9800Pro

The demo worked fine. Thanks for any help.

http://www.punkbuster.com/index.php?page=faq-bf2.php

From that FAQ:

Why does PunkBuster now require players to run the game as an administrator under WinXP/2K?

Because some cheats/hacks cannot be detected otherwise

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I keep getting kicked by PunkBuster for "Blocked O/S Privileges"?

Please temporarily disable other security type programs you have running such as anti-virus, process guard, SDProtector, etc. to find out which of them is blocking PB's access to resources on your computer. You either need to run PB without the blocking program(s) or play on non-PB servers. Also make sure you run the game under an Administrator or equivalent account under Windows. If you do have access an admin account, you can right click on the application you want to run and select "Run As". This will allow you to give admin access to that program and should allow you to play with a limited user.

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I keep getting kicked by PunkBuster for "Insufficient O/S Privileges"?

Download and run this file from any location, it will check for adware that stops you from being able to play on PB servers. The VX2 adware edits your user rights when it infects your computer, and many programs do not repair this when they remove it.

http://www.greyknight17.com/spy/VX2Finder(126).exe

Click the "Find VX2.betterinternet info" button to make sure that you don't have this adware. If there are no files listed, go on to the last step. If you find the adware files, (it is usually 3 random named dll files) Select all the files found.

Press 'Delete These Files'. The program will delete all files but one that will be deleted on reboot. Allow program to reboot. Once Restarted:

* Press 'Guardian.reg'.
* Press 'User Agent'.
* Press 'Restore Policy'.

Clicking on "find vx2.BetterInternet info" again should show all fields blank.
If you have no adware files, just click on the "Restore Policy" Button

 

[Staples]

Yep, my brother installed this game and tried to play earlier. Me is just a limited user and he got that error. It was no mystery to me.

 

[azzkikur]

Concillian:
I'll give that a try. Just reformatted and installed the game, so don't know how spyware would have gotten on there. Thanks for the help.