PunkBuster Restriction: Disallowed Program/Driver [125120]
Over the last couple of days I’ve been playing Cod4 MW (Call of Duty Modern Warfare) Multiplayer, it’s just one of those games that once I start playing again I can’t stop! 🙂 Anyhow I could’nt play any server that was using the Anti Cheat system PukBuster as I kept on getting an error message saying PunkBuster is not installed, I reinstalled and downloaded the latest updates but still nothing, eventually I fixed the problem as well as some issues involving being kicked out every time I tried and kill someone. :S
But then I started recieveing the following message:
NOTICE: Darren PunkBuster kicked player ‘Darren’ (for 0 minutes) … RESTRICTION: Disallowed Program/Driver [125120]
Took me a while but I found a solution on the steam forums here.
It seems that you need to do the following, open up Steam and Disable steam overlay in games, by going to: Settings > In-game tab > uncheck steam community. Not the best solution if you still want the steam community window open in game, but at leat it works. I’m sure someone else will have the problem so I thought id post my findings here. Enjoy! 🙂
9 thoughts on “PunkBuster Restriction: Disallowed Program/Driver [125120]”
hatemf23 March 24, 2010 at 4:19 pm
saved me alot of time looking for a fix.
good thing I found this first 🙂
Jeff April 4, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Thanks for that post.. googled for this and I had a hunch that it might have been the steam overlay chat, didnt know how to turn it off though. I -never- comment on anything, this was however worth it!
Greetings from Sweden!
Nicolas May 6, 2010 at 11:46 pm
Thanks Thanks Thanks I Salvato, now I can play quiet Cod 4
James May 18, 2010 at 5:26 am
This is great, fixed it no problem. However for the new look of steam client just Right click the game > Properties > General Tab > Un-Check enable steam client ingame.
Good find thank you !!
Michael May 19, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Hey thanks for posting, had the same issue and same deal as you. Playing older stuff 🙂 (Cracked open UT2000 and UT2k4 too )
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thnx for posting it I solved problem but i playing counter strike more these days
-cHiLLi- March 26, 2011 at 9:29 am
Thank you D,
Fastest Fix ever!
Harry March 28, 2011 at 6:58 pm
Amazing, totally worth it, thanks!
CAPTIANSLUG2408 April 14, 2011 at 8:35 pm
what if you not running off of steam?