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Big Source update released! Update (restart) your source servers!

Eric — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:48:25 +0000

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
[Windows] Added support for raw mouse input. Raw input reads directly from the mouse, bypassing Windows control panel mouse settings. This addresses issues with high DPI mice, and provides for a more reliable controller experience at various resolutions
[Windows] Improved custom mouse acceleration
[Windows] Updated mouse configuration UI to support raw input and acceleration; added tooltips to some of the options
[Windows] Fixed UI tooltips so that they display correctly on first hover

Team Fortress 2
Added the “Team Spirit” paint can.
Added Telltale Games items:
Dangeresque, Too?: Strong Bad’s styling glasses (equipped by the Demoman)
License to Maim: Max’s Badge (equipped by all classes)
The Iron Curtain: The Heavy’s first love (equipped by the Heavy, obviously)
The Enthusiast’s Timepiece: Tycho’s favorite timepiece (equipped by the Spy)
Updated some item capabilities:
Employees badges can now have custom names.
The Stickybomb Jumper can now be gift wrapped.
The Spine-Chilling Skull and Voodoo Juju hats are now paintable.
Improved the Spine-Chilling Skull and Voodoo Juju hat positions on the Sniper.
Added the original Ubersaw taunt to the Vita-Saw.
Fixed an issue that prevented the game from running on Fat32 systems.
Fixed a problem with the Sackston Hale achievement sometimes not being awarded correctly.
Fixed the holiday gamestartup sound files being included in the random startup selection after the holiday is over.
Fixed numerous WebAPI issues.
Fixed a Heavy exploit that let him run at full speed while shooting.
Fixed a Frontier Justice exploit that let Engineers have infinite crits for their current life/round.
Fixed the shotgun reload animations for the Soldier/Pyro/Heavy looping endlessly.
Fixed the Medigun charge percent for other players being steppy.
Fixed not being able to light arrows after the first arrow is fired unless they’re drawn back.
Updated the localization files

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It’s that time of the month for steam, apparently. Semaphores, SteamGetEncryptionKeyToSendToNewClient and other stupidness.

Eric — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:01:55 +0000

I mean, it happens like once a month, right…? Steam explodes and we have to sit here waiting to start our game server while they piddle-pat around fixing it. Haven’t they heard of a QA process?!

Well anyway, when you run an update, you get something like this error below.

Updating Installation
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 28584 with name 0eBlobRegistryMutex_6B53E6F8EFF3CFA80894AD1DCF60FC87
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 28584 with name 0eBlobRegistrySignal_6B53E6F8EFF3CFA80894AD1DCF60FC87

Then, when you connect via your game client, you get this:

SteamGetEncryptionKeyToSendToNewClient: Returned NULL!

First, I tried a file system verify which made no difference. Then, I tried deleting .blob files and running an update. That didn’t work either. Finally, I installed the entire server fresh from Valve using the steam binary. That also made no difference.

I’ll update this post with more information when I have it. If you have any ideas, toss them in comments!

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srcds_run is broken (sorta) – A new orangebox folder is created when you start your game (UPDATE: FIXED)

Eric — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:01:37 +0000

Have you tried to install the new Counter-Strike: Source game server update and all the sudden an entirely new oragebox folder was created and a new copy of the game was downloaded to it?

Yeah, its a bug, its not you. Valve has once again released confusingly undocumented and broken stuff to us.

To fix it, edit line 296 of srcds_run and change DEPOT_ROOT=”.” to DEPOT_ROOT=”..”

That will source the update from the directory above and everything will work fine!

Update: Steam has fixed this error!

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Counter-Strike: Source BETA for Linux HOWTO (cssbeta)

Eric — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:40:45 +0000

nice -n -6 ./srcds_run -autoupdate -game cstrike_beta -tickrate 100 +ip 174.142.18.83 +port 27019 +maxplayers 21 +fps_max 250 +map de_dust2 +servercfgfile server.cfg +sv_log server_log.logUsing breakpad minidump system

Using breakpad crash handler

Warning: falling back to auto detection of vproject directory.

Unable to find gameinfo.txt. Solutions:

1. Read http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/faq.html#NoGameDir

2. Run vconfig to specify which game you’re working on.

3. Add -game on the command line where is the directory that gameinfo.txt is in.

Unable to find gameinfo.txt. Solutions:

1. Read http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/faq.html#NoGameDir

2. Run vconfig to specify which game you’re working on.

3. Add -game on the command line where is the directory that gameinfo.txt is in.

If you’re trying to get the new cssbeta game to work and you’ve installed it via the steam binary for linux, you’ll get the following when you try to start it:

Using breakpad minidump system

Using breakpad crash handler

Warning: falling back to auto detection of vproject directory.

Unable to find gameinfo.txt. Solutions:

1. Read http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/faq.html#NoGameDir

2. Run vconfig to specify which game you’re working on.

3. Add -game on the command line where is the directory that gameinfo.txt is in.

Unable to find gameinfo.txt. Solutions:

1. Read http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/faq.html#NoGameDir

2. Run vconfig to specify which game you’re working on.

3. Add -game on the command line where is the directory that gameinfo.txt is in.

You’ll then notice that the links above are broken and the instructions it gives are way off. You’ll then likely curse valve into the sun. Don’t fret – Hosted Game Servers has your answer.

It’s quite simple, actually… they just changed the game name to cstrike_beta. No weird files like it pukes about, just a different game type that isn’t listed.

./srcds_run -autoupdate -game cstrike_beta

Enjoy, happy CS:S Beta hosting!

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Buy Counter-Strike:Source for PC for $7

Eric — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:32:27 +0000

Holy guacamole man. If I were someone who had been baned for hacks and was looking to get my hands on a cheap cheap cheap counter-strike source CD key, i would look no further than this

Counter-Strike: Source for $7 on SlickDeals

Oh, while you’re at it you can pick up a CSS Beta server with us for less than $1 a month per slot with 250 FPS and 100 tick rate

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CSS BETA GAME SERVER HOSTING IS HERE!

Eric — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:18:36 +0000

We’ve got it! We’re it! Pick us, pick us! Counter-Strike: Source BETA (CSSBETA) is here. We’ve got it locked cocked and ready to roll. Other sites aren’t bothering with hosting beta dedicated game servers, but we’re on the ball and ready to play.

Head on over to the Counter-Strike: Source BETA Game Server Hosting page to get subscribed!

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Valve broke source again. Don’t update!! (appdatacache.cpp (311) : Assertion Failed: !”Implement me” error)

Eric — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:40:47 +0000

So, valve broke Counter-Strike: Source again in their last update. (Sigh!) Don’t update your server or it will stop booting. They’re working on a fix now, but it could be a day. Bad Valve, BAD!

appdatacache.cpp (311) : Assertion Failed: !”Implement me”

Here’s some news from their mailing list:

Is this failing to contact steam master or vac servers for anyone else?

L 02/01/2010 – 18:40:03: Started map “de_dust2″ (CRC “1413637712″)
L 02/01/2010 – 18:40:03: server_cvar: “sv_accelerate” “5″
L 02/01/2010 – 18:40:03: server_cvar: “sv_stopspeed” “75″
Executing dedicated server config file
Error: Material “sprites/bubble” : proxy “AnimatedTexture” not found!
[zBlock] Your plugin version is up-to-date
Section [Scenes]: 0 resources total 0 bytes, 0.00 % of limit (2.10 MB)
L 02/01/2010 – 18:40:03: “SourceTV<2><>” connected, address “none”
L 02/01/2010 – 18:40:03: “SourceTV<2><>” entered the game
L 02/01/2010 – 18:40:03: “SourceTV<2>” joined team
“Spectator”
appdatacache.cpp (311) : Assertion Failed: !”Implement me”

Same without Zblock.

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Are your source servers not VAC secure all the sudden? It’s Steam’s fault.

Eric — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:57:37 +0000

If you’re playing happily on your server and it all the sudden starts complaining about your connection to steam servers being down, don’t panic… it happens to everyone. Steam has decided to do their regular past-time of sucking and caused their VAC servers to go down. When this happens, everyone’s server is unable to connect to VAC and verify and thus become insecure.

The only thing you can do to your CS:S, TF2, Insurgency or otherwise Half Life Source server is to restart it every 10 or 20 minutes until Steam comes back up.

It’s not our fault!

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How to install Mani Mod on your server

Eric — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:02:18 +0000

We recently came up with a guide for installing Mani Mod and even wrote an installer to help you! Give the following a try and you should have manimod up and running in no time! Check out the original guide here: http://forum.hostedgameservers.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=36

SSH to your server:

click this link: http://download.hostedgameservers.com/putty.exe
run putty.exe
enter your server’s IP in the hostname box
set port to 22
click ‘open’ button
click ‘yes’ to the popup

enter your username found in your control panel and press enter. this is different for each server and is not what you use to login.
enter your password found in your control panel and press enter. this is different for each server and is not wha you use to login. you will not see anything as you type your password for security.

type this and press enter:

CODE: SELECT ALL: ./installManiMod.sh

click the x and close the putty shell window

Click Start
click Run
Enter:

CODE: SELECT ALL: ftp://YOURSERVERIP

Login with your username and password for your server found in your control panel
browse to cstrike/cfg/mani_admin_plugin/adminlist.txt
open the file in notepad
enter your admin user like shown in examples of that file ( STEAM_0:1:877489 A +B +C +D +E +F +G +H +I +J +K +L +M +N +O +P +Q +R +S +T +U +V +W +X +Y +Z +a +admin +b +c +client +d +e +f +g +grav +i +k +l +m +o +p +pban +q +q2 +q3 +r +s +spray +t +v +w +x +y +z )

Done! Restart your server in the control panel.

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Added Tutorial for installing ManiMod on Counter-Strike: Source

Eric — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:58:59 +0000

Just wrote our little tutorial on how our users can install ManiMod on CS:S.

Forum link: http://forum.hostedgameservers.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=36

We’ve created a shell script to deploy this mod automatically! You just follow the directions to SSH into the server and execute the script. After that you just add yourself to the adminlist.txt file and restart the server!

Done! Easy!

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