Checksum errors when running a server

ndv99 · Oct 30, 2019

So, me and my mate wanted to do some racing around Spa in some GT3 cars to have some fun now that Sol can make a server run at night time. I hosted the server through content manager, set up two cars (Z4 and AMG) and set the track to spa at night. I was able to join just fine, but my mate encountered a checksum error. Here's a list of everything we tried that didn't work:

Using default weathers from Kunos
Changing the cars
Making sure the skins on the cars were stock
Setting the time to day time
Validating both of our games' files through steam
Reinstalling Sol and Custom Shaders Patch
Making sure we were both using exactly the same version of both Custom Shaders and Sol

Now here's two things that weirdly did work, but didn't solve our problem:

Joining a third-party Spa server that uses Sol
Running my server at Magione

This issue also happens at Silverstone, we need to do some more extensive testing to try and find out what the links are between these tracks.

Anyone got any ideas what the problem might be? If you need me to post any error logs just tell me where to find them and we'll send them to you.

RasmusP · Oct 30, 2019

Hi,
can be anything really..

Log files should be at:
server\logs\session and then a lot of "output%date+timestamp%.log"

Inside you'll find a lot of "Checksums" logs.
One of the Checksum lines should state the error for your friend

btw not all 3rd Party servers have the checksum-files laying on the server and therefore no checksum errors appear.

Also validating files doesn't mean that there won't be additional files that cause the problem. Although I wouldn't really know why this would cause a checksum error.. But it can produce other errors in the log!

Anyway, we need the logs