Resolved - Server is running new version of game

[C. Small 1st MRB]

Name:Christian Small

Rank: Cpl

Type of issue: Steam

Brief Description of Issue: After new update on attempt to join server I get the message "server is running a newer version of the game " and won't let me join , when i try to find a game in main server area , there are none avalible , me and Holland have tried many different things to rectify this but have had no sucess , if anyone could help I would be most grateful.

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Edited May 23, 2013 by Small 1st MRB

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

I would try verifying your game files.

1. Right Click on Day of Defeat: Source in your library.

2. Click on the Local Files tab.

3. Click on Verify Integrity of Game Cache.

That should check your files and re-download what is needed.

[T. Brown 1st MRB]

And after doing what yama suggested, restart steam.

[C. Small 1st MRB]

tried all of that no succes , me and Holland spent about a hour trying to fix

[T. Brown 1st MRB]

How about the ol' Delete Clientregistry.blob (or rename it to Clientregistryold.blob) and restart steam, forcing it to redownload? Tried that yet?

[C. Small 1st MRB]

where would that be located ?

[T. Brown 1st MRB]

It'll be in the Steam folder. Not steamapps or DOD, but the actual Steam folder that you open up after ProgramFilesx86 (or Programfiles, depending on your OS)

So it'll look like C:\Programfiles\Steam . Right in there, find that ClientRegistry.blob. If you care about preserving ALL data ALL the time, just rename it to something else, but in reality, you can delete it and it won't affect much of what you use. Up to you though. Once you do that, restart steam; it'll try to locate that file and when it can't, will redownload it.

[C. Small 1st MRB]

deleted it but still no download it looks like.

[C. Small 1st MRB]

Tried re-installing the game but still no sucess with that , not sure what else to try

[Magoo]

Please exit Steam and go to the folder called C:\Program Files\Steam\ (this is the default location for a Steam installation - if you set a different installation directory, you will need to browse to it).

Delete all of the files in this folder except:

The \Steamapps\ folder, userdata, and Steam.exe (this file is listed as an application and features the black and white Steam logo)

Restart your computer.

Then, launch Steam.exe from within the Steam installation folder, and not from a pre-existing shortcut.

Note: This process will not affect your currently installed games.

Additionally, please complete this process for your installed game(s):

Title: Verifying Game Cache Files (GCF)

Link: http://support.steampowered.com/kb_article...=2037-QEUH-3335

Close and then reopen Steam.

With Steam running, re-test the original issue.

Let us know if you have any further questions or concerns.

[C. Small 1st MRB]

still no banana , tried re-installing , tried verifying , tried deleting the files and many other things that i can't fully remeber

[Holland 1st MRB]

Small and I have gone through the following;

Verified game cache

Steam refresh (Deleting all files other than steamapps, steam.exe) (Includes clientregistry.blob)

Changed download regions

Ensured steam settings related to downloads were correctly configured.

Small even went as far as to completely reinstall the game between yesterday and today.

None of the above resolved the issue.

Edited May 22, 2013 by Holland 1st MRB

[C. Small 1st MRB]

under cutts's advice i've moved the steam apps files so it manually uninstalls all shared program and only installs DoDs

[C. Small 1st MRB]

Cutt's advice seems to have resolved it , i had to move my steamapps file so it unintalled all the games on steam the installed only DoDs , i believe it was the shared games such as tf2 and half life dm

[T. Brown 1st MRB]

Yay! GJ Cutts!

(course I knew it all along, just wanted everyone else to learn it on their own *cough*)

[C. Small 1st MRB]

Crap , its doing it again god freaking damn it

[C. Small 1st MRB]

wtf now dod has disappered when i moved to steamapps files back to where it was

[Cutts]

Ah man... I've had the same issue before I think.

Back in the day, simply backing up steamapps, reinstalling steam, deleting the fucked game from steamapps and copying the rest back in... worked.

Last time I tried it I didn't have such luck. Some games worked, others didn't.

What I ended up doing was:

Went into my DODS folder, and backed up all my downloaded maps, etc., autoexec.cfg and config.cfg.

Uninstalled ALL valve games. Entirely.

Checked through the steamapps folder for any mention of any valve games.

Load every other game in turn, see if it works. Any that didn't I uninstalled. (backing up any saves I wanted etc.)

Then, re-installed DODS and all the stuff I could be bothered to re-install.

Finally, carefully put back the downloaded maps back into their places in the DODS folder.

It was a massive pain in the arse, but it did eventually solve it.

Slightly cut-down solution

If you can't be arsed to backup stuff (and its not that necessary, since you can download all the DODS maps from our forums easily) then I'd just

Uninstall all source engine games.

Go into the steamapps

Re-install all source engine games.

Do the same for any other game that you can't get to work.

Solution that is most likely to work

NUKE THE LOT.

Essentially, uninstall steam and ALL the games on it, then go into the steam directory and remove anything that might still be hanging around, then

finally go and have a very long wank while you re-install everything.

I'm afraid that's not great help, but sometimes steam can get into a bit of a mess.

i seem to have resolved it for now , will update is anything changes

Edited May 24, 2013 by Small 1st MRB

[Holland 1st MRB]

Is this still an issue? If so, are there any updates, or changes in the symptoms since this was posted?

[C. Small 1st MRB]

Just had a update for DOD.s and guess what , ITS DOING IT AGAIN , god damn steam and they're updates , gonna give it a day and see if its caught up , if that doesn't work i'll re-install all source games

Edited July 5, 2013 by Small 1st MRB

[Holland 1st MRB]

Please keep us posted on the situation. It may be worth trying some of the steps provided in this topic, or some of the steps I had gone over with you on Ventrilo the first time around.

If what solved the problem previously fails to work this time around, we will be happy to assist you further.

[C. Small 1st MRB]

roger , attempting magoo's solution ATM , will keep you posted

[C. Small 1st MRB]

Magoo's solution didn't work and the steamapps moving probaly wouldn't work because i don't have anyother source games installed. never know might fix itself overnight

[Holland 1st MRB]

Small has informed me that moving his Steamapps folder resolved this issue. The cause of the issue is still unknown.

[C. Small 1st MRB]

hmmm seems only to work when i move the steamapps file out , and when i move it back in dods stops working again

[Holland 1st MRB]

hmmm seems only to work when i move the steamapps file out , and when i move it back in dods stops working again

Did you ever set DOD:S (or any other source engine game) to run from an external location (outside of the Steam folder)?

It is a relatively new feature added to steam roughly a year (?) ago.