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Battlefield 1942

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Game Patches/Updates

Latest Game Version

The latest updates bring Battlefield 1942 up to version 1.61b. This requires installation of:

  • Battlefield 1942 Patch 1.1619 (Full)
  • Battlefield 1942 Patch 1.61b (Incremental, Requires 1.619 to be installed)

Punkbuster Updates

BF1942 has the Punkbuster anti-cheat software by Evenbalance. However, evenbalance discontinued support and updates for all new clients on February 3rd, 2010, leaving players with only the hit-or-miss ingame updater which downloads the latest PB updates from the 1942 server the player is connected to. Fortunately, 1942 player Tankpanzer managed to package up the last available update in a convenient installer for new players:

This will get all new players up to the latest version of Punkbuster for Battlefield 1942, boot-free. Players should also update the Punkbuster Services that run in the background as windows processes using the Evenbalance PBsvc.exe installer/updater:

Compatibility

Windows 2000/XP

No Issues.

Windows Vista/7

Configuration

Widescreen/Alternate Resolutions