I was never able to play some EA games online because punkbuster always kicked me out. PunkBuster.exe is a small application which kicks players out of the server, if the game was modified. This prevents cheating. But I didn’t modifiy my game and I always got this message: “PunkBuster INIT Failure” – ord “Connection to server lost”. I found a way to fix this:

- First of all, download the latest punkbuster from here

- Make sure that you open the game with administrator privilegues

- Make sure your firewall or antivir doesn’t block the punkbuster service (PnkBstrA (B) whatever)

- Start – Run – Services.msc

- Make sure the process is running. If it is not running you will be kicked out of the server with the message: Punkbuster Init Failure.

- Make sure that your account does have a password (local computer account). This is needed for the next step.

- Right click the service – Preferences – Login – Click on this account instead of local account.

Please note that this screen is made on a german computer. After this you should be able to play your favorite games online again. You have to do this everytime you turned your computer off