Figured with a fair few of you being GSPs I might stand a good chance of someone having a bright idea.
Recently, whenever I try to play HL2: DeathMatch online, I am having 'issues'
It will connect fine to any server, play for about 30 seconds, then just 'stop'
I can still scroll weapons, pan view, all the normal things.. however the world around he has just 'stopped'
Then, I get a 'Warning: connection problem' and it drops the server.
I try again, sometimes it works and i Play for hours, sometimes it does the same..
Now, most likely related... I recently upgraded to DSL2+ 24mbit with bulldog.
One thing they did say was they interleaved the communication packets between me and them for improved speed (but it resulted in ping times doubling from 8-9ms to 18ms or so to most places)
The only other thing I did was remove my Local HL2: Game (just right clicked and remove in Steam) leaving HL2M installed.
Anyone got any ideas? The connection is defo up as my SSH connections dint drop / Router shows no issues... Just seems like something is upsetting the HL2: DM servers.
When it does work, it works fine for hours on end.
Long shot i know
Beer for anyone who finds the fix (so long as it isn't Revert to DSL1 )
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Blatent Advert ^^^
More like blatant wally.
I asked him for the server IP. I thought for a minute I was answering support tickets.
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Start the server.
Join the server
Watch what the server itself outputs when it 'kicks' you.
(you can do this on any server you yourself have root access to)
Your clue might be found there
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DSL isnt being used at the time (Mrtg is showing < 25K/s going thru.
CPU is fine also.. Turned off outlook / MSN to see if it was either of those, no correlation..
If I change servers enough, it eventually just finds one it works on and is fine..
I was thinking maybe some glitch re: Server Versions, however I cant believe i am the only person ever to notice if it was that.. I might try reinstalled HL2: Game again to see if that resolves it.. but I cant see why it should..
I have this feeling its going to be down to the DSL2+ trial.. its the only thing that makes decent sence.
Showing no dropped packets (ping testing whilst playing) but they are doing 'funky stuff' with the packets which might be upsetting 'some versions' of the Source servers.
Aah well, had hoped it would be some 'you n00b, you need to do XYZ'
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Olly, alas I am not running any server myself, this is just me playing as I get bored..
The error I see is that the connection was lost to the server..
aah well.. guess I will just have to forget how fun HL2 is until I get off this DSL2+ trial again.
Thats a pity, because sometimes the output will tell you exactly why you've been booted off.
Working it out clientside, is harder.
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Not sure if you come across The Sanctuary in your travels of HL2DM, but it made me laugh when you said killing kids on DM, the guy (our customer) is 55 and the majority of the clan are lets just say "older"