Awaiting gamestate on our server

(carv) #1

Hi,
we run a jaymod 2.1.7 server with enhanced mod and in the last month a few users have been plagued with an issue where when they try to log on to our server they are immediately stuck at “awaiting gamestate” and they get no other message. They can connect to other servers fine just not ours!!?? they have tried to uninstall and delete the program files wolfenstein folder but to no avail. they still get the message. they do not even start to download any maps it just goes to awaiting gamestate. i do not know why it only affects certain people but not others.

Has anyone one else come across this before. can you give me some pointers on this??
thanks for any help.

(UJERebel) #2

I have this sometimes, just restart ET, works for me :slight_smile:

(carv) #3

Hey Rebel,
first i love your clans custom maps, we run many of them on our server!
i have restarted our ET server and i have had the players restart their PC, uninstall and reinstall. they have been unable to log on for sometime. i have a players in Europe and a few in the US that always have this issue. most players have no issue.
they have done traceroutes and everything seems fine.
As a test in thinking it might me a issue with jaymod or enchanced mod I have removed enhanced mod and deleted the jaymod databases but they still have the issue.

as i understand it, “Awaiting gamestate” should point to a connectivity issue, right? could it be that maybe some users are starting to use IPV6 and our hoster does not? i feel like i am reaching for answers becuase i am stumped.

(UJERebel) #4

Just restarting the client et here works for me, and its when im connecting to NQ( where i play mostly)
so i guess it has nothing to do with the mod.

But i don’t know what it exaclty does… i guess getting info about the game thats being played? :tongue:

(Nail) #5

there’s a new pb update, if clients haven’t updated there can be connection problems

(carv) #6

I have tried the PB update but the issue is still felt by about 5 players. Everyone else is OK.

I even turned off PB on the server for a while to see if those players could now join but their problem persisted.

I cannot believe this is an issue with the installation or config of the server. it seems like it could be a routing issue affecting those 5 players but the tracert appear fine.
The message “Awaiting gamestate” means the client is awaiting some feedback from the server, right? could this be something related to a client blocking a port?

(macbeth) #7

same problems on WF for few players
u sure it is not an issue with the servers hoster ?

(phisherman) #8

I experience this quite frequently, but /reconnecting fixes it for me. Somebody once believed it to be a pb issue, I don’t know if that’s true.

(Dragonji) #9

Try to restart the server.

(Mateos) #10

Often happens here after a map download (But not all the time, dunno if this could help); Always used /reconnect as pointed phisherman :slight_smile:

I think they did something in Legacy to prevent this?

(Mercuriux) #11

But the server in no longer available? i cannot connect anymore. whats happened? you close the server?