Steam "VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME FILES..." does not work correctly
CRaZyCAT_Rus
Russia Join Date: 2013-10-31 Member: 188899Members, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
Russia Join Date: 2013-10-31 Member: 188899Members, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
Several time I was suffering being kicked from server with error that my game files do not match the server's.
If I check game cache through steam it says that all files successfully passed the check.
So the steam verification is wrong because I deleted the file given in log.txt, redownloaded it and took hashes: the hashes turn out to be wrong.
I attached archive containing both files: the regular file is a wrong file which pass the steam cache verify for some reason and the "*(2).dds" file is a redownloaded correct file.
Have no idea why and how files could became different. You can see an example of altered byte on 4123920 (0x3eed10) offset.
I assume that my ns2 folder contains quite a bunch of such corrupted game files and hope I can help to find out why files pass the steam integrity check but in the same time fail game server integrity check (I witnessed that a lot of people had such issue appeared for a long time) so I'll able to provide more altered files. If it's known issue and nothing going to change I'll delete my models catalog soon to avoid forthcoming errors then.
If I check game cache through steam it says that all files successfully passed the check.
So the steam verification is wrong because I deleted the file given in log.txt, redownloaded it and took hashes: the hashes turn out to be wrong.
I attached archive containing both files: the regular file is a wrong file which pass the steam cache verify for some reason and the "*(2).dds" file is a redownloaded correct file.
Have no idea why and how files could became different. You can see an example of altered byte on 4123920 (0x3eed10) offset.
I assume that my ns2 folder contains quite a bunch of such corrupted game files and hope I can help to find out why files pass the steam integrity check but in the same time fail game server integrity check (I witnessed that a lot of people had such issue appeared for a long time) so I'll able to provide more altered files. If it's known issue and nothing going to change I'll delete my models catalog soon to avoid forthcoming errors then.