diff --git a/code/server/sv_init.c b/code/server/sv_init.c
index 51f228fd..b8fb28c2 100644
--- a/code/server/sv_init.c
+++ b/code/server/sv_init.c
@@ -374,16 +374,12 @@ static void SV_ClearServer(void) {
 
 /*
 ================
-SV_TouchCGame
-
-  touch the cgame.vm so that a pure client can load it if it's in a separate pk3
+SV_TouchFile
 ================
 */
-static void SV_TouchCGame(void) {
+static void SV_TouchFile( const char *filename ) {
 	fileHandle_t	f;
-	char filename[MAX_QPATH];
 
-	Com_sprintf( filename, sizeof(filename), "vm/%s.qvm", "cgame" );
 	FS_FOpenFileRead( filename, &f, qfalse );
 	if ( f ) {
 		FS_FCloseFile( f );
@@ -574,11 +570,11 @@ void SV_SpawnServer( char *server, qboolean killBots ) {
 		p = FS_LoadedPakNames();
 		Cvar_Set( "sv_pakNames", p );
 
-		// if a dedicated pure server we need to touch the cgame because it could be in a
-		// separate pk3 file and the client will need to load the latest cgame.qvm
-		if ( com_dedicated->integer ) {
-			SV_TouchCGame();
-		}
+		// we need to touch the cgame and ui qvm because they could be in
+		// separate pk3 files and the client will need to download the pk3
+		// files with the latest cgame and ui qvm to pass the pure check
+		SV_TouchFile( "vm/cgame.qvm" );
+		SV_TouchFile( "vm/ui.qvm" );
 	}
 	else {
 		Cvar_Set( "sv_paks", "" );