Custom Maps trying to download even tho i have the pk3's

(fattakin) #1

Title says it all - i downloaded about 15 custom mpas yesterday and attempted to play on those servers hosting them - the majority of them wouldnt let me connect without trying to download different map pks first.

Custom Campaign Pk3s would load then attempt to load beach.pk3, church, desertfortress etc even tho they awere already in my etmain folder.

ASE had the maps in black OK before i connected and im pretty certain they were up to date (Some servers would let me on with the church pk3, others would attempt to download it)

I got most of the maps from www.etmaps.rar.pl

Can anyone advise?

(Englander) #2

Ive downloaded all my maps from the servers ,it seems you get less problems that way.

(Dies Irae) #3

A couple of questions:

  1. Are the maps installed correctly?
  2. Are the maps the same version of the maps that E.T is trying to download?
(fattakin) #4

  1. Yeah they are definately all pk3’s in the etmain folder

  2. As far as i know - all downloaded from rtcwfiles / jolt / etc or that link i downloaded above. All the correct versions, ie Rhine2 not the first one.

(damocles) #5

Yeah I get it too, and all mine ARE downloaded form servers. I have downloaded carnage canyon about 5 times so far.

It’s probably server admins being dicks and adding some of their own crap to the PK3s.

(weasel) #6

I had a problem like this a few days ago, but it seems to have fixed itself since then. It would occassionally claim the CRC didn’t match the server, and redownload the pk3, even though I had just downloaded it from the same server a few minutes ago, and it had worked once already. The new pk3 would have a name like flakcannon_beta-2.711043dd.pk3.

(fattakin) #7

balls - i was gonna just start letting the server download em but im on 150k so it takes a few minutes - minutes i could be using playing.

So even that dont work properly - balls again!

(blushing_bride) #8

i have this problem too, i get a download rate of 2kb from most servers and downloading even a small folder takes so long i usually get disconnected before the download finishes. I’ve tried about ten times to play on servers running custom maps and i’ve succeeded once. A total waste of time so far

(Sick Boy) #9

I have the same problems :frowning:

And could it be fixed that you don’t need to download a map if it’s not on at that moment?
It sucks on clanservers when put up a custom on it, everyone coming to play needs to dl it :angry:

(Rippin Kitten) #10

You have to have all pk3s hosted on the server on your local machine to play on pure servers. This is why server admins shouldn’t add beefy custom pk3s to their server without first providing some way for clients to get them: a server webpage, using the http redirect, or having a really fat pipe for people to use.

Because a pk3 file could hold any number of game resources (sounds, scripts, maps), all of them have to be in sync with the server. Since the server loads all pk3 files found in the etmain directory at startup, there’s no way for it to determine if a particular asset is being used at a specific time. To the server, everything is in use.

RK

(fattakin) #11

Solved the problem by playing on Hamsters dedicated Church server - thats a class map!

(Sick Boy) #12

Then why isn’t this so in vanilla RTCW?

(lennyballa) #13

//offtopic// Don’t talk about balls plz :eek2: //offtopic//

(daemord) #14

/cl_allowdownload 0
Set this and it wont try to download anymore so you can get on the server and play, if there is a mis match of your map file then you will disconnect, set it to 1, reconnect to download it, then set to 0 again.Hope that helps.

(fattakin) #15

Is that of my config file or for the ET console itself?
YUP im a noob at configs :frowning:

(Sick Boy) #16

If you do that most of the times it says version mismatch or crc error although I’m sure I have exactly the same file, and you can’t connect. And it also doesn’t help if you don’t have all the server’s pk3’s, even if they aren’t in use at that moment.

(daemord) #17

well for me it works, including if the server has loads of maps i dont have, so my guess must be there is a server cvar somewhere that says you do/dont need all the maps, and the ones i frequent dont mind.
Re the whole mismatch thing, yeh i get this from time to time, then i just have to try and d/l from the server (which seems dodgy at times), i just think there is loads of diffo versions of maps floating around and lasy admins havent updated where as you have, dunno tbh though.

And re the guy above as to where to put it, doesnt matter console or config both will work, console will be a 1 off jobby, where as config will keep it set all the time, your choice.