Overlay PunkBuster Problem: X-Fire and Steam

[RobotBanana]

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...

[BlackArrow]

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.

[juneau]

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

[LIMEY]

I run steam in the background as well as TS2 and no issues at this time

[paceman]

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. :-(

[CarbonFire]

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.

[paceman]

What I had to do was go into Steam View/Settings/In-game and un-check Enable Steam Community In-game.

[RobotBanana]

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...