Your mesh files differ from the host (Steam)

Did you try opting-in for the beta version of the game? I heard some rumors about having the beta opt-in disabled causing crashes and other problems when playing online. Try opting in for the beta. Or try opting out, will never hurt to give it a try.

Good luck!

Tried that, it didn't work

Dunno what else we can do actually.

Try verifying the integrity of the game cache. Go to Steam -> Library -> Right click on your game -> Properties -> Local files -> Verify integrity of game cache.

Sometimes that works, when a file is corrupted or missing.

Also, it is important not to have any mods enabled when going online in Sins. Disable any active mods from the ingame menu.

Let me know if that helped. I really don't know what else to try unfortunately, except for reinstalling the game...

Always manually delete everything in the mesh folder in the game's install directory before this as well. This can be caused by having an extra mesh file in there, even if its not used, in which case verify integrity of the game cache will not work. The game will then redownload all the meshes and you should be able to play again.

Have tried that. Even tried zipping the entire folder and sending it to my brother. Still get the same error, which kinda leaves me to question if it really IS a mesh file problem.

We both have the same DLC's for rebellion too. Funny thing is before the DLC (Forbidden worlds) we didn't have any problems with this what so ever.

We now managed to establish that the fault lies on my brother's side. I can join any random games and he can't. No matter HOW many times he completely deletes the game from the hard-drive and reinstalls from steam, the same issue persists. This leads me to believe that either he's got some kind of virus (but he's scanned for that and nothing was found) or whatever API that rebellion uses to calculate hashes or something, is somehow different on his computer than for the rest of us.

I would like some input from a Dev on this issue before I suggest to him that we simply wipe his computer clean (format) and reinstall windows.

Hello Karmgahl

I had to write to you after reading this odd issue. I googled this issue cos I have exact same problem with steam (just another game thou) and ended up at this forum post. (All other post includes the same advices again and again which never seems to work at all, like advising for validating game cache).

The only difference is that I am trying to play CS-GO Competitive mode (only reason I bought the damn game!), and every time I join the que, it finds a game fast and smooth, it joins the server fast and smooth but... the game persists sometimes only for 1 second, other times for a couple of rounds ingame, then I get a disconnect from the game with a error message saying "Your local game file pak01_0xRANDOMx does not match the server files.

So basically I am being kicked for not having the correct versions of files (what else, right?). Well my brother also play CS-GO and we did the same thing, copying all his pak01_01, pak01_02, etc etc, since his Steam and CS-GO works perfect! But no... It did not work.. I tried deleting all the files in the folder, then do a 'validate game cache' on the game, I tried only deleting the specific file that it was complaining about, I tried deleting whole game, manually, and through steam and also from the software removal tool from windows (7). I tried deleting the .bob file thing, restarting steam, I tried rebooting windows, deleting steam, reinstalling on other locations, other hard-drives, dude I think I basically tried everything (except format c:/ (windows7)). I shut down the firewall while caching, I shut down my anti-virus (avast! - a light anti-virus program) and then did a cache of game files after deleting those pak01_0 files. And still I get the same result every time I try to join a Competitive mode match.. a few seconds ingame and then disconnect with error message...

My only way of playing the game when getting these errors, is to quit game fast, delete the specific file, open game again, join the live-going competitive game again (you have like 2 minutes to join in before timer-ban on Competitive mode is dropped down upon you straight from hell..) and then I am basically running around with many missing textures in-game (sometimes even some sound files are missing after relaunch of the game).. Well at least I am now playing without being kicked for file errors, the only thing is, sometimes I get kicked/disconnected by having a file error (local file mismatch with server files) containing certain pak01_files that are crucial to even execute the game(start/launch the game), which means, when exiting game, deleting those pak01_2x ones, then I can't even start the game again...

I can play CS-GO on regular FFA servers, on passworded servers and other official servers, without having problems with file errors as mentioned above.. So I totally don't get this issue? All other games goes smoothly as well (diablo3, cs1.6, wow, LOL and so on)

If you read this far, sorry for the whining and bulling, it's just freaking frustrating to have 7 days ban every time I want to play some Competitive games :/

Another weird thing is, I just had a few weeks without any above issues and then suddenly it started doing the same thing again.. And I can't really test my "fixing issue" since I cant join the game before the 7 day ban is over...

Does my issue comply to yours? And have you figured a way to deal with this?

Best regards and thanks in advance

Remi