Server Fix for lag issue up on Steam now (Beta)

[[TW]Ramm-Jaeger]

To all server admins:

We've spent the last few days working on tracking down, reproducing, and fixing the server lag issue. I'm very happy to say that we beleive that we have found and fixed the issue. The fix is now up on Steam as a beta for server admins to download from HLDS. This fix is for both Windows and Linux servers. To get the fix you will need to launch the HLDS update with this added to your commandline:
-beta roserver

This will download a very small patch that should fix the issues (as always, please stop your server when running HLDS or the patch will not be properly applied). We tested the fix for several hours on our server this evening with no sign of the lag bug so we're hoping this kills it. We only had a few hours to test the fix which is the reason for it being a beta at this point. We felt the severity of this issue warranted getting a patch in the server admins hands as quickly as possible. Please post here to let me know how it works for you all. Thank you for your patience while we sorted this issue out.

 

[FreeMan]

Thanks again, I'll make sure and try to get you some feedback on if this resolves the issue for us.

 

[ButchCassidy]

Thanks Ramm
I have patched The Wild Bunch server will keep you upto date on things

 

[Zetsumei]

Great that its out just too bad that i don't have a server

 

[aceto]

updated the [-project.twilight-] & D.a.L-Public

we will have a look at the server and report here.

 

[Mike_Nomad]

A sample of the FULL Command Line for use with hldsupdatetool.exe for BOTH Linux and Windows would be nice for all the newer Admins.

 

[Zetsumei]

A sample of the FULL Command Line for use with hldsupdatetool.exe for BOTH Linux and Windows would be nice for all the newer Admins.

they should look in the stickies

 

[Mike_Nomad]

they should look in the stickies

Really?? Where?? I looked.... All I saw was the full update command line.... nothing about this beta. It would be nice to make it EASY for those Admins who are not command line oriented.

 

[_KaszpiR_]

young admins should not get into running serves if they got no idea how to operate the steam /hldsupdatetool
anyway

Linux:

./steam -command update -game "redorchestra" -verify_all -retry -dir ./ -beta roserver

Windows

hldsupdatetool.exe -command update -game "redorchestra" -verify_all -retry -dir ./ -beta roserver

o course chage the dir parametr to sout your server directory

 

[spraduke]

This patch seems to have changed how the Player Unique ID is displayed. Before you got a 17 digit number with the last 8 being unique, now you only get 8 digits which are completely different from the 8 from before the patch!

 

[aceto]

on our server i was everytime seeing only the normal id

 

[Zetsumei]

This patch seems to have changed how the Player Unique ID is displayed. Before you got a 17 digit number with the last 8 being unique, now you only get 8 digits which are completely different from the 8 from before the patch!

this means that your webadmin was probably really really outdated the first patch changed the numbers for some ladder thats is pretty much dead now for ro

 

[spraduke]

come on zets give me some credit .

The guid has been 17 digits for ages and today some servers start reporting them as 8 completely different digits to before.

 

[Pagan]

I seem to remember 8 digits during the first beta but I could be wrong.

 

[Zetsumei]

it indeed seemed that the digets changed but i think they changed it back to normal that the last patch did something strange then :F Haven't been an admin anymroe since before the last patch so i didn't really know.

 

[JAKL]

Thanks for working on this. After-Hourz servers updated with no problems.

 

[Yakuza]

Just updated, thanks

 

[The_Countess]

sent a support ticket to clanservers.com for our main server.
i wonder if they'll be willing to install it or not.
i'll keep you guys up to date on it.

 

[Zetsumei]

sent a support ticket to clanservers.com for our main server.
i wonder if they'll be willing to install it or not.
i'll keep you guys up to date on it.

afcourse they will update but you should explain what you want ;o.

 

[[TW]Ramm-Jaeger]

The patch didn't change the way the player ids are represented ( I just confirmed this on our servers). They have always been a longer number on windows, and a shorter number on linux. This is a bug with the Linux server that we have the linux guy working on. Essentially, both numbers are valid unique ids, they are just two ways of representing the SteamID. The windows server uses the new way, the linux server uses the old way. For now, if your playing clan matches on both types of servers, you'll need to make sure you know both variants of the ID. To get the ID, any client can just type "ListPlayers" in console to list all the players on the server and thier IDs. From what I understand, the old way of representing the SteamID is going away due to them running out ot SteamIDs that could be represented by the 8 numbers.