Server requires Unmodified Content??

[UK.D-Hirogen]

Ok guys i can now play 99% of the time, ive play'd the last three nights and had the error twice whereas i couldnt join a game at all before. I think i know why i got it these two times and this wont affect my solution for you guys since i think its just me being totally unlucky.

I'll be posting a lengthy solution tomorow. Peeps like Kellogs will have to go through pretty much what i did to the letter, but ive found this error to vary in its severity so alot of you will be able to skip steps, for example some of you have never seen the .exe 1.02 patch fail at all (Sith Lord never had to run the command line patch).

Unfortunately it wont be user friendly, i'll be assuming peeps know their way around a computer. One thing i can clarify right now is that this error is not a punkbuster problem, ive double checked with the BF2 PB admins and most of their files are externally verified, the client data must be game specific.

I'll post what ive found tomorow and hopefully it will help, it'll take some time to put together and ive been playing BF2 alot recently to make up for lost time

[ODD-BALL]

**** farking assh0l3 turd monkey sons a *****3s....no matter what i do this **** wont work. even on a fresh install i still get 2 errors on v 1.o, common_client.zip and objects_client.zip, then if i try to patch it via cmd. it says that those two files are not original and it wont patch them. since it wont patch them, i get stupid ass monkey unmodified content error...is my dvd just bad? do i need to go buy a new one and swap them out then return it?

[UK.D-Hirogen]

**** farking assh0l3 turd monkey sons a *****3s....no matter what i do this **** wont work. even on a fresh install i still get 2 errors on v 1.o, common_client.zip and objects_client.zip, then if i try to patch it via cmd. it says that those two files are not original and it wont patch them. since it wont patch them, i get stupid ass monkey unmodified content error...is my dvd just bad? do i need to go buy a new one and swap them out then return it?

While im typing my guide out m8 try a few installations, you may need to try alot to be absolutely sure thats its not your disc.
The errors should be random, now and again the Objects_client.zip should pass the 1.00 md5 check. Sometimes you will get an error in the movie files, or the map files, but you need to make sure your installation errors arent constant. I would say me + Kellogs have the most severe problems, but id also assume that like mine, Kellogs installation would vary in its 1.00 md5 errors.

Its worth mentioning that im using my Bro's disc, he has installed and patched with no problems at all, but when i install i still get random 1.00 md5 errors.

[ODD-BALL]

is md5 summer just a POS or what? It does return some different results, like occasionally a movie or map, like you say, but it always fails objects_client and common_client. shouldn't it return the same results all the time?

[UK.D-Hirogen]

is md5 summer just a POS or what? It does return some different results, like occasionally a movie or map, like you say, but it always fails objects_client and common_client. shouldn't it return the same results all the time?

Its not the md5 summer that returns random results, it cant, it checks a specific hash code against your installation files. If it is returning different results on the same installation (1.00) without you modifying the files, thats a different problem entirely.

[ODD-BALL]

yeah, sometimes i can run it and it will fail a map, then i immeditly run it again, and the same map will pass. Weird. anyway, i have been farking with it for 5 hous now, and no matter what i do, i cant get a good clean install with those 2 files passing. I may walk down to the store and buy another copy, I can always return it if it dosen't work either. then if it does work, i will switch them and return the bad one for the next fool to buy. sorry whoever you are.

[ODD-BALL]

anyone wan to upload these two files to my ftp?

objects_client.zip and common_client.zip

and why the **** is there no option to re-install?? maybe then if i reinstalled 12 or 50,000 times, i might get all the files installed right...

***********update--i tried to copy all the files from disk to my h.d., and install from there. When i install it now from h.d. it comes up with md5 warnings during the install on the same files i am having a problem with, so i am sure it is just my disk gone bad, even though I dont see any serious scratches. Going to get dressed and go to the store right now to buy a new one.******************

[LOGAN]

anyone wan to upload these two files to my ftp?

objects_client.zip and common_client.zip

and why the **** is there no option to re-install?? maybe then if i reinstalled 12 or 50,000 times, i might get all the files installed right...

***********update--i tried to copy all the files from disk to my h.d., and install from there. When i install it now from h.d. it comes up with md5 warnings during the install on the same files i am having a problem with, so i am sure it is just my disk gone bad, even though I dont see any serious scratches. Going to get dressed and go to the store right now to buy a new one.******************

my friend just hooked me up with his common_client.zip and ill be testing it after its done dling, if it works then ill give you the link for it. he gave me his client.zip from his karkand folder and now i can play karkand while before it would just ctd while loading the map; so since that worked im hopeful this will to. *fingers crossed*

[ODD-BALL]

this is getting so ridiculus, i finally got a 1.0 install with all green lights, but still get the same message!!!! im doing manual pb update now, will let u know what happens....

***UPDATE***

Well, i got it fixed for now, wrap your head around this one -- it dosent like my hard drive.

my fix - copied all of the disk contents to my "g" drive, installed to g:/battlefield 2, got all green lights, updated pb, then deleted pbweb.exe,did cmd line patch, all patched but pbcl.dll (pbweb must have put on newer version than is in patch), fired it up and it works.

I do not know why I would get those 2 files corrupted everytime on my c drive. I will start testing it for sure to make sure drive is not bad, but it is only a few months old, and has a 2 month old windows install on it. I don't get it.

its a Western Digital 74GB SATA Raptor drive. Anyone else having problems with same drive? the drive i installed to that works is a WD 1200 JB, IDE drive.

It sucks I have to run the game from the slower HD, but im happy its working.....FOR NOW

keep on posting, and let me know how u guys get along with your problems.

[LOGAN]

finally fixed my modified content errors! pretty simple actually, all i did was...

1: uninstall the game..

2: install the game and write down any files that give you an MD5 error (also write down where they came from if you need to, for example the "client.zip" in my karkand folder gave me an error)..

3: install the .02 patch.. (when i did this, i got the "failed patch" error but instead of doing something logical like uninstalling the game and trying again, i just started the patch application .exe again as normal and tried installing the patch again right over it (without rebooting), and for some reason that worked).

4: after you have the .02 patch installed successfully, ask a friend (or whoever who has a working version of BF2) for the files that you got errors on..

5: place the files in the appropriate folder and you should be good to go!

worked for me but its a long shot and probably wont work for a lot of people.

[ODD-BALL]

that will work for everyone, all you have to do is get greenlights on all the important files and it will work. The game gives that message because it is checking the MD5 sums its self during the "validating client files" and those bad files are whats causing the error. If you can manage to get all green lights on the md5summer, then you are set. I just couldn't get 2 of them to work no matter what until i tried installing on my other harddrive. I am sure it would have worked if i had copied the 2 files that failed from another working source. Glad you are fixed, and we have this working solution.

[LOGAN]

finally fixed my modified content errors! ...

yes, but at what cost?




now i can play on any server but they all have these messed up technicolored player models. had the same problem in farcry with the hummers..



fixed it in farcry by reinstalling but... well thats easier said than done.

[ODD-BALL]

yeah, no shi7. I have that sometimes in bf2, but usually they just load wrong, and if i close the game and reload it, they go away.

on the bright side, it does make the snipers much easier to see :)

[beezneez79]

so do all of us who have this problem have bad game disks or is it a problem with the files on the disk?

[ODD-BALL]

its just corrupt files on your hard disk, who know how they got that way, probobly different for everyone. for me the game just dosen't want to install right on my Raptor. I played all night on the install i did on my other drive with no problems. If you got corrupt files, you get the error, its that simple. Replace the corrupt files with ones that md5 correctly and you can play.