http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9685
--- Comment #128 from Fernando Otero granamachine-wa@yahoo.com.ar 2008-06-26 16:16:19 --- (In reply to comment #127)
The patches make PunkBuster services/kernel driver *functionally* working, e.g. no service load/startup failure, no crash due to missing APIs, no unexpected API data...
The kicks due to mismatching API signatures can't be worked around with simple patches. The legal and technical issues have already been discussed several times.
To counter the API fingerprinting you have to attack/hack the PB client itself
- which ironically contradicts the purpose of PB.
Although EB did shut down a number of attack vectors over several years, there are still some left which allow to alter all the information gathered by the client before being sent to server. Though that requires a certain level of understanding how the client internally works. My private just-for-fun stuff which directly targets the client still works without being detected (dating from early days of PB). If correctly done, it enables all known detected cheats/hacks to run undetected.
Hi again So, if I understand correctly, in order to play without being kicked you need these patches AND your "private just-for-fun stuff". Am I right?