Punkbuster | PBBANS c/o EvenBalance have confirmed full support of screenshots for ranked servers running Battlefield 3.
Prior DX10 and DX11 games simply returned a blank screen shot when viewing either an automated server captured player screen or via the punkbuster rcon command ‘pb_sv_getss’.
This shall add greater support for [m2s] Game Server Admins when combating cheats, hacks, glitchers and rule abusers.
BF3 will use PunkBuster as its anti-cheat system. Game servers that run in ranked mode are required to have PunkBuster active.
There have been problems with the PunkBuster screenshot mechanism under DirectX 10/11 in the past. However, we have collaborated with EvenBalance to make screenshots function reliably with DX10/DX11 in BF3.
Tags: battlefield 3, battlefield3, bf3, cheat, directX, dx10, dx11, even balance, evenbalance, hacker, hacks, pbbans, pbss, pb_sv_getss, punkbuster, ranked, screenshots


This is great news for myself and all [m2s] Senior Admin’s.
Shame we now have to revert back to the ways of BF3 by checking screenshots each and every day
I delegate DrDeathbolt for the job!
This will Help
Will there be 1000′s
Millions mate! ……… millions and billions and trillions and ga-zillions!
All for you to do
Clive and myself used to do them on BF2
Good man! So no arguments there then ^_^
Well done Pudd. Just you and me then
Nutty’s back……… delegation!
Nice to have him with us again