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    Overlay PunkBuster Problem: X-Fire and Steam

    I've done some searching, and it seems to be a fairly widespread problem. There's even an article on it in the CoD4 Knowledge Base. If you have applications that insert an overlay over the game, like X-Fire, the Steam In-Game Community thing, some system monitoring tools, etc., you get kicked by PunkBuster for "Unknown Windows API." I've had to disable the Steam tool and close X-Fire every time I want to play.

    Fraps doesn't seem to interfere though, luckily.

    I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, but I bought the game through Steam.

    Has anyone else had this problem? If so, did you install the game through Steam or by DVD?

    I'm hoping this issue gets fixed soon...
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    #2
    Sorry to hear you are having problems Robot.

    I run both xfire and steam in the background while playing many different games and have never seen that message.

    good luck sorting it out.

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      #3
      I'll have to look out for that. i haven't played online yet though.

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        #4
        I run steam in the background as well as TS2 and no issues at this time
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          #5
          I'm having this issue with COD4. Never had it with any other game. I stopped xfire, and it still give me the same API error. :-(
          A change of Pace.
          "All the fun of a clan without the BS" - Cain

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            #6
            I bought it via Steam, and haven't had any problems.....yet. Don't generally use XFire, though I have it and could fire it up to see if it generates the same error for me. AFAIK, the steam community overlay works for me in COD4.

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              #7
              What I had to do was go into Steam View/Settings/In-game and un-check Enable Steam Community In-game.
              A change of Pace.
              "All the fun of a clan without the BS" - Cain

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                #8
                Originally posted by paceman
                What I had to do was go into Steam View/Settings/In-game and un-check Enable Steam Community In-game.
                Yup, which is exactly what I had to do (as well as close X-Fire). Still no word about a fix yet...

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