Borked

[Dog]

Curse VALVe.
I spent four hours trying to find ways to get TV3 working properly without client crashes but no joy.
Hopefully they will figure out a fix (even though Alfred Reynolds denies there is one)

[Archon]

i figured there was a problem when i tried to join last night. i dont recall there being any update that affected gldsrc tho. what caused the server to go nuts?

[<eVa> + Sarge +]

There was an update to HL1 engine lastnite. The server is still not working correctly along with hundreds of other Dod servers across the net.

Half-Life 1 Engine Update Released
October 22, 2008, 4:40 pm - Jason Ruymen - Product Update
A new set of Steamworks features have been released for all Half-Life 1 engine multiplayer games: Counter-Strike 1.6, Condition Zero, Team Fortress Classic, Deathmatch Classic, Ricochet, Day of Defeat and Half-life 1 Deathmatch. The update includes Steamworks features such as player avatars in the scoreboard when playing Counter-Strike and Condition Zero. The update also contains several bug fixes, listed below. Note that this update will require all game servers to restart.

Bug Fixes


Removed the need to manually re-login and re-authenticate to Steam while in game

Fixed a crash on startup when running windowed with a non-standard desktop resolution

Removed the display of saytext (in-game chat text) from players whom you've blocked in Steam friends

Locked down several engine cvars to prevent malicious .script exploits

Enforced file consistency on several sprites in Counter-Strike

Removed "ex_extrapmax" cvar (no longer needed)


Server

Added "-noaff" command-line option to disable setting of thread affinity

Added "bannedcfg" cvar so admins can choose which file is written to by the "writeid" command

[Archon]

hmm must have been released after i went offline for the night. if i recall, i got svc_bad, isnt that a server memory error? i read there was some sort of -zone command to use to fix it, for linux servers anyways

[Dog]

It's not just DoD that is affected.
It applies to all HL1 games, including CS1.6, TFC, CS:DM and many others.
A lot of stuff has been broken...: rcon, you can't access the server via HLSW.
Some stuff still works including MetaMod, AMXX, Shrikebot.
But the fact is, you can't join a server without a client crash five minutes later. On my system, not only does it crash and I have to exit and use Task Manager to kill HL1, it also completely borks the Windows graphics when you Alt-Tab out.

The anger is all through the Steam forums.
The lead developer is a guy called Alfred Reynolds, who has been around VALVe from day 1. He has said that there is nothing wrong.

But the fact is, that if you run a server with no mods, no addons, nothing, players join, their game crashes.

So right now, we are waiting for VALVe to fix their mess. It's gonna be a death knell for HL1, if they aren't careful.

[Archon]

[quote="StrontiumDog";p="129246"]But the fact is, you can't join a server without a client crash five minutes later. On my system, not only does it crash and I have to exit and use Task Manager to kill HL1, it also completely borks the Windows graphics when you Alt-Tab out.[/quote]

5 seconds for me, and i also have to alt-tab to kill hl.exe with task manager. just have to wait for a steam update i guess :/

[spm97]

Someone might want to tell valve to look at their own stats:

Current Players Peak Today Game

75,129 80,953 Counter-Strike: Source
56,780 74,114 Counter-Strike
9,790 11,818 Team Fortress 2
7,849 11,383 Condition Zero
5,749 7,082 Day of Defeat: Source
2,701 3,020 Garry's Mod
1,931 2,129 Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
1,894 1,964 Half-Life 2
1,539 1,800 Insurgency
1,314 1,617 Age of Chivalry
1,096 1,163 TrackMania Nations Forever
938 2,394 FarCry 2
877 1,146 Red Orchestra
639 781 Half-Life 2: Episode Two
532 541 Portal
505 611 Synergy
488 611 X3: Terran Conflict
452 501 Half-Life 2: Episode One
431 2,283 Day of Defeat
420 549 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
315 335 Half-Life
265 332 Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

So DOD went from a peak of 2283 players down to 431 and nothing is wrong ???

Spam

[Lemming808]

Aloha,

Added the line...

cl_solid_players "0"

to my config and I've been solid so far. if you dont know where your config is
its usually steam/steamapps/youraccntname/day of defeat/dod/config.cfg

make sure to change it to read only after...unless you have a copy of the cfg laying around, just incase you happen across an angry admin on a diff server and he slowhacks you.

This fix has worked for some...but not everyone. Also it's always good to make changes with steam completely shut down.

Lem

[mr_s]

yep

thats what happens when you re-invent the wheel.

friends, NEVER touch anything that is working fine


that is speaking to experience

[M_G_P]

so dod still broken then?

[Archon]

probably, but cl_solid_players 0 seems to work. the dod server was almost full a couple days ago when i played

[Dog]

It's back up to its former glory!

[l3eeron]

Yay!

[CastleDoctrine]

[quote="StrontiumDog";p="130066"]It's back up to its former glory![/quote]

Thanks for the welcome news Dog.

Your hard work is appreciated (ie: smashing your head against the HL1 engine ). I didn't recently buy DoD only to see it unplayable on the only server I prefer to play on.

[mr_s]

woot

3 cheers for Dog