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Beta is going down for Kernel hacking tonight at 12am EST (GMT-5)
We’re going to bring beta down and do some kernel hacking tonight at 12am EST (GMT-5). This means your Minecraft servers will be halted and its possible you’ll have data loss. Make sure you do a save-all on your servers tonight before they are brought down. Minecraft saves every 15 minutes or so on its [...]
Big Source update released! Update (restart) your source servers!
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 [...]
Garry’s Mod Hosting is Coming to Hosted Game Servers!
We have worked magic and been able to get Garry’s mod working perfectly on a Linux box. With an installation larger than any other game we have, garrys mod lets users do damn near anything they please with the wealth of sounds and models in the entire orangebox/steam collection of games. When our new site [...]
Stop being fooled by the big server companies!
This is very in depth and look at individual settings for servers and what they mean. How they affect your game play and your wallet. As a server administrator at www.HostedGameServers.com (HGS) I spend a lot of time looking at and analyzing the best possible game server configs, tick rates, prices and server fps levels. [...]
It’s that time of the month for steam, apparently. Semaphores, SteamGetEncryptionKeyToSendToNewClient and other stupidness.
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 [...]
TF2 Game Server Update (Haven’t heard that before – have you?!)
hey dudes, theres a TF2 patch out… Engine Fixed crash in SourceTV relay Team Fortress 2 Fixed blood splashes not appearing on bullet hits Fixed Achievement dialog text being cut off for certain resolutions TFBot Changes Medics now respond when nearby humans call for Medic If a Medic Bot is healing you and has an [...]
Valve broke source again. Don’t update!! (appdatacache.cpp (311) : Assertion Failed: !”Implement me” error)
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 [...]
BioShock 2 Added to site. Pre-order coming soon.
We’re proud to announce BioShock 2′s addition to the site. BioShock 2 will not only kick butt, but probably be a mainstream game for a good time to come. With the ability to gain XP and customize yourself with different skills and abilities, I see some real staying power here. We’ll open up pre-order in [...]
Are your source servers not VAC secure all the sudden? It’s Steam’s fault.
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 [...]
HLDS for Linux – Steam Outage!
Over the last 48 hours, Steam had some issues with their updating. Every time one of our hlds game servers would start, it would check for updates from steam and end up with a strange error like this: >>Incorrect price blob version! Update your server! It looks like its fixed now, but during the outage, [...]