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invalid_cdkey message!!

Postby X-Man » Mon May 12, 2003 12:44 am

um, i am getting the invalid cd key message (i have the retail q3a)

never experienced this problem on other mods...

i played on one of the servers once, but after quitting and trying to go back a second time that silly message goes up...

any help?

maybe if i re-enable punkbuster....
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Postby ReD NeCKersoN » Mon May 12, 2003 3:50 am

maybe if i re-enable punkbuster....


Sounds like a good place to start. :wink:
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Postby X-Man » Mon May 12, 2003 6:05 am

no dice...
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Postby X-Man » Tue May 13, 2003 12:19 am

hmm...

working now...


doh...
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Postby X-Man » Wed May 14, 2003 12:01 am

NOT WORKING AGAIN!!!

sheesh...

99% of the time i'm getting a'mis-typed cd key?' message that changes to 'invalid cd key'...

i have the retail version of q3a, and have never given my cd key out..

wtf?

help... :?
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Postby Lixus » Thu May 15, 2003 3:57 pm

hmmm i think the cdkey is stored in the file "q3key" in your baseq3 folder right?

now if there is this file also in your westernq3 folder, the cdkey of this wq3-file replaces the "q3-cdkey". so maybe an empty or wrong "q3key" file got into your wq3 directory???
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Postby X-Man » Sat May 17, 2003 4:31 am

will give it a try...
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Postby Flow » Tue Jun 29, 2004 9:14 am

i have the same problem......

my cdkey is original but look invalid.....

in my quake3 dir i have'nt a file to store my cdkey
plz help me...

ah.. i'm under linux

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mmm

Postby Flow » Wed Jun 30, 2004 8:32 pm

there are usually 2 games started on the same server when i try ....
sometimes one run (usually the duel server empty)

when a friend run a western quake server i'm also not able join the game ..... i receive the same message....
invalid or mistyped CDKEY....

with quake3 only or others mod is oK....


westernquake ned a KEY to run online ?
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Postby heXen » Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:19 pm

up

Me and a friend of mine kept playing western till 2 days ago.
I use Gentoo Linux with Quake 3 arena point release 1.32b and he uses Win XP with point release 1.32. It worked without cdkeys so we didn't bother to enter ours.
And a version mismatch is pretty impossible because it used to work.
Two hours later our last match, with both client (me) and server (him) configuration unchanged, he started his server and I had a INVALID_CDKEY.
With the deathmatch always-up western server sometimes I succeed in getting in and sometimes I don't. With the traditional q3 server either.
I use punkbuster 1336, I also tried to downgrade to 1069 but nothing. My friend doesn't have it installed at all

what do you think about it?
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Postby sig11 » Mon Jul 19, 2004 5:39 pm

I am the admin of the two servers still up and running. I'm afraid I can"t find anything useful in the logs. I would really like to tell you what's wrong with the CD-keys ....

Punkbuster is turned off. So that should not be a problem.

Do your IP adresses change ? I vaguely recall some problems with IP adress changes. It may be Punkbuster related, though.
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Postby heXen » Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:11 pm

sig11 wrote:Do your IP adresses change ? I vaguely recall some problems with IP adress changes. It may be Punkbuster related, though.


what kind of problems?
Yes, btw I could have tried to enter 2 different time with 2 different IPs.
there's news, even the friend of mine hasn't succedeed to enter in your DM server

And... how can it be punkbuster related if you just said your server has it turned off?i
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Postby sig11 » Mon Jul 19, 2004 11:31 pm

heXen wrote:what kind of problems?


AFAIR punkbuster communicates with servers to track players. If the player IP changes that might cause problems. Also if there is a firewall involved. But I am typing this from memory. It may be different ... ;-)

heXen wrote:And... how can it be punkbuster related if you just said your server has it turned off?i


:-) .... what I meant to say : The IP stuff I was remembering could be PB stuff, and, therefore, it may not be the problem you are facing. But I am not sure if I remember correctly (and I am too lazy to dig through the various forums and help sites ;-) ... ).

Hmmm ... here is another spontanous thought : did you turn PB explicetly off ? You may need to do that. Even though my server is not running it, your Q3/PB still may be communicating with some PB servers out there and get confused, especially when chaning IP adresses.

P.S.: I hope I don't sound too incoherent ... but that happens with too litle sleep ;-) ....
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Postby heXen » Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:47 pm

Somewhere I've read that the newer quake versions don't check the key at all, but the last is 1.32b and this error is the evidence it does :?
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Postby SHS » Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:26 am

I much love this modes and much stinger that in he nearly does not play. I with boat to play bored, but on server does not let (cd-key invalid). If there is possibility to install the server without checking cd-key. I played nearly each evening. Live in Belorussia.
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