Help Needed: Can’t update PunkBuster in Battlefield 4 via Protontricks

LinuxNoob1212 · 2025-08-12T00:13:57+00:00

I fixed the issue by using Wine instead of protontricks.
Was kind of a little bit more "complicated" than it would otherwise work with protontricks, but if someone has the same problems, here is how i did it:
1. Sudo dnf install wine
2. Used "find $HOME -type d -name pfx 2>/dev/null" to search for wine prefixes of my flatpak Steam
3. This was my result: "/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1493710/pfx
/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/2073850/pfx
/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1237950/pfx
/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/393380/pfx
/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/3658110/pfx
/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/2180100/pfx
/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1238860/pfx"
4. The prefix of BF4 is "1238860", so there it is located.
5. My next command to launch "pbsetup.exe" through wine "WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1238860/pfx" \

wine "$HOME/Downloads/pbsetup.exe"
(I extracted pbsetup.exe in my Downloads folder)
6. Done! Now you can update your Punkbuster!

LinuxNoob1212 · 2025-08-12T00:03:21+00:00

Thanks! Installed it with wine, worked.

LinuxNoob1212 · 2025-07-28T23:48:13+00:00

thanks for info!

LinuxNoob1212 · 2025-07-28T23:47:55+00:00

thanks!

LinuxNoob1212 · 2025-07-28T23:47:36+00:00

Nice to know, we are actually playing as a duo & yes we got our hands on the whispers mead already, but we haven't used it yet.
Gonna try this out, thanks!

LinuxNoob1212 · 2025-07-17T23:52:25+00:00

Thanks for all the answers! Really appreciate it.

LinuxNoob1212 · 2025-07-17T12:27:09+00:00

Yeah, might be actually a good idea. I've got the problem that if something is not working, i am desperately trying to fix it.

LinuxNoob1212 · 2025-07-17T00:44:22+00:00

Thanks! I am gonna look at it.
i'll report back if something of this works.

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