Why does PunkBuster anti-cheat software take forever to update?
The creators of the PunkBuster software, Even Balance, for whatever reason, decided to make their software “sleep” while updating, for minutes at a time. This would seem to be a waste of your time, so a user by the nick of “zinx” has created a work-around to go with the PunkBuster command-line updater. A: So, you’ll want to update the PunkBuster software per-game via the command-line before you run them using the work-around. The following example is for America’s Army version 2.3.0, however it will work for any PunkBuster-enabled game, as long as you change the pb directory you access.
