Project Reality + Battlefield 2 on Steam

[boilerrat]

Originally Posted by PLODDITHANLEY

I hate DL'ed games - disc or nothing for me (when a disc exists not in the case or PR). Seems to bring extra problems.

Agreed, I have the disk version of bf2, so i have added bf2 and pr as non steam games without trouble.

[Jeff]

ok, works good with Project Reality Lan and SP/COOP but when i try to play online I get in for about 2 minutes and the servers kick me for:
Punkbuster kicked player 'Jeff' (for 5 minutes) MD5Tool Mismatch. BF2.exe (len=2048 )

so, that being said, i went to punkbuster tech support and i got this from them:

Note #2: This kick has been added by the serveradmin to check the integrity of certain files on the client. These checks are not default and have to be manually added by the server-admin.

When you are kicked for a MD5Tool Mismatch you will always see the file in question.

Example:
MD5Tool Mismatch: etpro/cgame_mp_x86.dll

Basically there are two different causes when you are kicked for a MD5 violation:

* The file DOES exist on your pc, while the server expected you would NOT have it

* The file does exist on your pc, while the server expected a different version (different MD5 hash).

When you are kicked for such a violation, check if you have this file or not. When it's not part of the default installation of the game, deleting this file might be needed. When you do have this file, make sure you have the original and latest official version of this file. Reinstalling of either the latest game patch(es) or the game might be needed.

Not really sure how to fix this. It does this error on every online server that i've played. I don't get this error on regular BF2 servers.
Could someone help me with this? This mod is very cool!

[Raic]

Originally Posted by Jeff

ok, works good with Project Reality Lan and SP/COOP but when i try to play online I get in for about 2 minutes and the servers kick me for:
Punkbuster kicked player 'Jeff' (for 5 minutes) MD5Tool Mismatch. BF2.exe (len=2048 )

so, that being said, i went to punkbuster tech support and i got this from them:


Not really sure how to fix this. It does this error on every online server that i've played. I don't get this error on regular BF2 servers.
Could someone help me with this? This mod is very cool!

Have you edited the BF2.exe in someway? Pathced it with some program?
Try renaming it to BF2.exebackup or simply deleting and restart steam to have it redownload it. If that doesn't work the DEV team needs to make a serverside fix for the PB checks.

[Jeff]

I'm using the steam autohotkey script. i just did a verify steam integrity game cache. it downloaded something and i played PR online and it still kicks me after like 5 minutes with same error.
Here's some info on my Bf2.exe
The version of BF2.exe is v1.5.3153-802.0
pb_sv_md5tool a "1.500000" v BF2.exe SZ6905344 AT0 LEN2048 FE02BED864A4ADB52957D257E9966C76
compared to:
Bf2 1.50 Md5's !!!VERIFICATION USE ONLY!!! - PunksBusted.com Sponsored by Clanwarz
Is a different version
Can this MD5 hash be added?

[Raic]

Did you try without the Steam hotkey thingy? Might cause it.

[MattChicago]

sounds like a hacked version of BF2 to me. Did you download this on a torrent finder type of website to download the game? Since if you got a Hacked copy of BF2 it will still try to locate the "key" to play online does not matter what MOD is being used. And if that version of the hack has been banned and or if punkbuster reads its a hacked version you will keep getting kicked.

[Killer2354]

MattChicago, did you even read the posts before you posted? they have bf2 from STEAM, which is not a hacked version.

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by Raic

Did you try without the Steam hotkey thingy? Might cause it.

if i do without the script i can't get in the game. the script is running pr.exe in the long run.

I went to the link below and emailed the MD5s to ultimate.
Md5gen And Filelistgen - PunksBusted.com Sponsored by Clanwarz
I'm attaching the MD5s

[[R-DEV]Deadfast]

*** Might as well read the full thread the next time... ***

[[R-DEV]Deadfast]

Did you try playing on vanilla BF2 servers?

I don't think this is a Steam issue in general, if you do get kicked from vBF2 as well I'd recommend asking a Steam user for his version of BF2.exe.