[skutaboy]

Skutaboy, you won't get any joy from the muppets but you will find answers.

Anything is worth a shot.

Our member sent me this message and wondered if it could cause issues...

"I do have two last "grasping at straws" ideas of how this ban may have occurred:

1) Remember me mentioning that I'm running BF2 on a laptop with no hardware 3D? I'm using a pre-release experimental driver from Intel that emulates some of the 3D hardware, such as vertex shaders, etc. It could be that some of the code in this driver looks/smells/etc like a known hack. This is pretty likely, in fact. The only part that doesn't make sense is why it would let me play for over a month on this config with no problem, then issue a ban out of the blue.

2) Possible but unlikely: A timing issue between when the interloper did whatever bad thing he did, and when I connected. I was on the server playing, was disconnected with some weird network error message that I'd never seen before, and when I reconnected about 5-20 minutes later (guessing, I didn't keep track of time), I was able to play for about 10-15 seconds (again, guesstimate) before getting disconnected with a ban. I'm guessing that someone could have connected as me while I was on, which I would assume would kick me, and when I connected as me again, it knocked him offline but the PB machinery was already working on kicking me off. Again, this is just a hypothetical situation."