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Name: Kevin Cribari

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Type of issue: Steam

Brief Description of Issue: Everytime i try to play a demo it gives me this in console COM_CheckGameDirectory: game directories don't match (hl2 / dod)

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[edit: small this is something different!]

So I've been talking to Cribari on Steam and we figured out it was one of these two things; either it was due to him trying to play the demo from the folder itself, instead of within DOD:S (he double clicked on the demo itself, and with .dem files being associated with hl2.exe, it should open DOD:S...but was not working), OR it was due to a conflict between the custom files from the last SteamPipe update. The following fix is for the latter issue. Before continuing with this (to anyone experiecing this problem in the future), first try opening DOD:S, open console, and type playdemo demonamehere.dem....if it plays, it's ok. If not, continue)

So I asked Cribari to make a folder in his steam\steamapps\common\dayofdefeat\dod\custom folder (he actually already had one from when the update took place, but I asked him to make another, called whateveryouwant). In it, he copied all the data from the steam\steamapps\common\dayofdefeat\dod\downloads (which is where the custom stuff used to go) into it, and is reporting that it fixed the problem.

This was caused by the update. It changed the location of the folder in which custom files get saved from the dod\download into dod\custom. Now, the update was SUPPOSED to fix this, but it didn't fix it 100%. It seems any NEW custom stuff will work while playing the game itself, but trying to play back demos results in this error because the custom files didn't get placed into the proper place by the game itself.

The only downside to this is that by having two subfolders in the custom folder, the game will have to go through all of that stuff before it runs. If this is noticeable, you can just delete the oldest version of the folder. SO, let's say you had a folder already in the dod\custom that had all your custom stuff, let's call it dod\custom\mycustomstuff. You make a new subfolder, let's call it dod\custom\mycustomstuff2, and copy everything from dod\download over there. Now, you can try deleting the old mycustomstuff (first make a copy of it in case the deletion messes things up) if you're pretty sure you copied everything again into the new folder, and when the game loads, it'll only have to go through that one folder...but if anything is missing, it'll come up with this error when you try to play demos, or WORSE; it'll have a error when trying to play the game. If the load time is not noticeably different, just keep both folders.

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