Re: Kill BF2142 Script

**ThaDoctah** · 05-13-2008, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by Lorax74

Wow, not sure how I missed the original post...

This just kills the 2142 process, and quickly too. It can be modified to kill the punkbuster processes as well. I'll post something up when I get home and figure out what those proc names are.

PnkBstr A.exe and PnkBstr B.exe

The spaces are not a typo.

**Lorax74** · 05-14-2008, 02:34 PM

Some process can't be terminated in this way, it seems pnkbstrA is one of them. I do not have PnkBstrB on my system, but I'm guessing it can't be terminated in this fashion either, sorry.

And the space thing is odd, it is not there if you look at the actual text of the post. I'll edit the first post and put the code in a code block to see if that fixes the mysterious typo.

**ThaDoctah** · 05-14-2008, 02:43 PM

That's odd because I know I've noted seeing pnkbstrA and B listed in my Task Manager Processes List. You'd think you could kill anything in that list as long as it wasn't a system process. I'll take what I can get though, and a BF2142 kill script works for me.

Thanks for trying Lorax

**Lorax74** · 05-14-2008, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by ThaDoctah

That's odd because I know I've noted seeing pnkbstrA and B listed in my Task Manager Processes List. You'd think you could kill anything in that list as long as it wasn't a system process. I'll take what I can get though, and a BF2142 kill script works for me.

Thanks for trying Lorax

Actually, they are system processes. I'm sure there is a way to halt them, I just haven't looked for it yet. In the mean time, you could try pedestrian's solution and see if that works for you or not...

**ThaDoctah** · 05-14-2008, 02:49 PM

Punkbuster: More problem than it's worth ^^

**frozenchrome** · 01-28-2009, 01:17 PM

Afternoon,

I am bumping this thread up as there was discussion about this script on TS the other day. It might be useful during the recent servers issues we have been experiencing.

**draeh** · 01-28-2009, 01:27 PM

Good bump. This script is a must. Hasn't failed me yet when 2142 decides to lockup.

**Lorax74** · 01-28-2009, 01:53 PM

I should actually update it to use better/more environmental variables so the bat file will work in XP and Vista alike.

**Lorax74** · 01-28-2009, 02:12 PM

Updated for Vista:

Kill_BF2142.bat

Code:

@echo off

IF EXIST %systemdrive%\users (
   REM Vista
   cscript %homepath%\Documents\Kill_BF2142.vbs
) ELSE (
   REM assume it's XP
   cscript %homepath%\My Documents\Kill_BF2142.vbs
)

Kill_BF2142.vbs unchanged

Code:

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name = 'BF2142.exe'")
For Each objProcess in colProcessList
    objProcess.Terminate()
Next

**frozenchrome** · 04-20-2009, 01:29 PM

Once again, I am bumping this post as there seems to be many people on TS who still don't know

**PM..** · 04-20-2009, 04:10 PM

Good bump!!

**MrJengles** · 04-20-2009, 06:18 PM

Yeah a good bump, I noticed people mentioning it too. I just use the following code as a batch file (save it in notepad as title.bat) add a hotkey to the file and that's all you need.

Code:

TASKKILL /IM "BF2142.exe" /F

exit

**Lorax74** · 04-22-2009, 12:00 PM

Originally Posted by MrJengles

Yeah a good bump, I noticed people mentioning it too. I just use the following code as a batch file (save it in notepad as title.bat) add a hotkey to the file and that's all you need.

Code:

TASKKILL /IM "BF2142.exe" /F

exit

That's much too simple

Actually, I don't recall ever using taskkill before, pretty nifty.

**frozenchrome** · 04-22-2009, 01:22 PM

Originally Posted by MrJengles

Yeah a good bump, I noticed people mentioning it too. I just use the following code as a batch file (save it in notepad as title.bat) add a hotkey to the file and that's all you need.
...

I have been looking around to find a way to add a hotkey with a vanilla keyboard. I am lucky enough to have one of them fancy ones with My Favorites keys that comes with special drivers/software for this. However natively, to my knowledge, Windows XP does not allow one to bind a BAT to a hotkey. Anyone have any insight on this?

**MrJengles** · 04-22-2009, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by Lorax74

That's much too simple

Actually, I don't recall ever using taskkill before, pretty nifty.

Haha it is, some people just like doing things the long way

Originally Posted by frozenchrome

I have been looking around to find a way to add a hotkey with a vanilla keyboard. I am lucky enough to have one of them fancy ones with My Favorites keys that comes with special drivers/software for this. However natively, to my knowledge, Windows XP does not allow one to bind a BAT to a hotkey. Anyone have any insight on this?

I havn't looked into the hotkeys business all that much, and I don't have either of the G keyboards. Although I do have an nvidia graphics card and I happened to notice that I can add a hotkey by opening the Control Panel, then opening NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager, clicking on the Hot Keys tab, expanding misc, clicking run application, then add, pressing the key combination I want, clicking browse and finding whatever it is I want linking to, then clicking OK.

This worked for me for a couple of days, then it stopped

but I've got a new computer now (need to set it up still) so I havn't bothered to work out why it isn't working. I think that option comes with all Nvidia cards but I'm not entirely sure (no idea about other cards), if you have an older one check for a new driver. The advantage of that was that it always runs in the background automatically without any hassle.

Only thing I can do for now is reffer you to Pedestrians post:

Originally Posted by pedestrian01

You can use this program to set up keybinds. You can map it to kill 2142 directly without using Lorax's script.

Once you install it will ask you if you want to create a sample script choose yes.
Run the program and a Green H will be in your system tray. Right click on it and choose "edit this script". You can erase everything in there and paste this line into it

if Process, Exist, "BF2142.exe" <> 0
end::Process, Close, BF2142.exe
return

Save the file, then right click on the H again and choose "reload script"

This sets it to the end key. Look in the help file for special key commands.

Note that this program must be running for the key bind to be active. I'd put it in the startup folder so it starts with Windows.

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