Okay, I'm new to the PC side of gaming and am currently trying to get everything installed, set up etc. I bought the game off steam because I know it's fairly reliable.

I was setting everything up, all of the 'first time setup' installations were going about their business, then I get to the Punkbuster Anti Cheat one. It has been sitting on 'installing part 1 of 3' for the past half an hour and that was after I reset it after waiting for another half an hour.

What am I doing wrong here? Does it usually take this long? Is there something else I have to do that I've missed?

Thanks guys.

ha pb .
Try to manually download the anti cheat itself and install it
www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=support-cod4.php

Try PBsetup
http://evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php

PB, the reason for 3/4 of errors in cod4. lol'd

Make sure you disable steam overlay too when you get in game, otherwise you'll be kicked for disallowed program/driver