The Windows ACPI driver, Acpi.sys, is an inbox component of the Windows operating system. The responsibilities of Acpi.sys include support for power management and Plug and Play (PnP) device enumeration. On hardware platforms that have an ACPI BIOS, the HAL causes Acpi.sys to be loaded during system. The message I get is, 'PB IMPORTANT: RESTRICTION Unknown Windows API Function [131152]. I've tried uninstalling and then reinstalling, updating PB, installing the latest DirectX End-User Runtime August 2008, installing.NET Framework 3.5, stopping FRAPS, disabling Windows Firewall, disabling Norton 360 Firewall, running a full system Norton 360 virus scan and I'm still getting this issue.
Just found that on the punkbuster website: Tuesday [10:30AM] Version 2.090 of the PB Client for BF2142 has been released to our PB Master Servers for auto-update and to our website download page. This is a maintenance release. They can't even do it right.so this is why i played fine up until midday today. I played until about 9:30 this morning and after 12:00 when i got back this screwed up.
So to be clear what is the actual 'fix' for this problem? @ bayoudog haha, yeah, i just tried that as well. Total garbage m8.
EA, DICE, and PB are the biggest bunch of tools on the online gaming community. That 2 month wait for the 1.5 patch almost killed me, but now this. Where can i contact them at, if we all bother them maybe they'll start getting some stuff done for once. @ mactastic: we dont know yet. On a windows computer its related to a problem with a program called windows blinds (much like candybar for mac) but i haven't found the solution as of yet.

Unknown Windows Api Function In 2142 For Mac Mac
I'll keep looking. See, if EA had not been so **** lazy and just made a full blown port for mac, we wouldnt have this problem. Cider is awful, its just a commercial version of WINE, which is what accounts for some lack of playabilty and performance. I mean how many configurations would EA have to test when making a mac port, like 10? Versus the billions of pc configurations to make the windows version. I mean aspyr made full ports of starwars battlefront and gh 3, and i love those games, they run great. EA needs to get on the ball.