[Bug 9685] Punkbuster removes me from game for UNKNOWN WINDOWS API FUNCTION [131124]

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9685





--- Comment #159 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>  2009-06-06 17:49:32 ---
(In reply to comment #157)
> Some thoughts on this:
> 
>  * have someone EVER contacted evenbalance and asked them to add a "wine check"
> and if it detects a wine environment executes different checks? And if yes,
> what was their answer?

Why don't you ask them and see?

>  * would it be possible to execute the linux version of punkbuster and "route"
> the checks to the linux version? (the wine devs have done something similiar
> with the gecko engine...I mean, the default steam client uses the engine of the
> internet explorer, but in wine it uses gecko, so (for me) it seems possible to
> get the applications to use something complete different instead of that what
> they want

And what do we do for BSD/Solaris users?

>  * the checkIDs that have to be returnt are known to everyone that knows how to
> sniff a network, aren't they? So, it would be possible to hardcode these IDs
> and return them when PB asks for them. It isn't illegal (I think), it's just a
> workaround...

May break other applications.

>  * oh and last idea: if we get the "real" windows files into one directory,
> wouldn't it be possible to get the routines of PB to check those files instead
> of the wine files?

Not sure what you mean here. Regardless, bugzilla is for discussing bugs only,
not user support. Use the forums/AppDB for that.

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