For those of you who are running servers and are getting oversize key or overflow errors where the ET console is still active, yet the server is not. The following fixed my errors, my server now runs crash free. (It’s located here at 216.185.109.17.
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Shorten Your Server name. For some reason you will get an oversize_key error if your sv_hostname is too long. Specif. if you add a lot of colors. Dont ask me why, but if i make put in 5 more characters than this: ^1Death Incarnate 22p. (The ^1 makes it color), and added a ^6 before I and a ^4 before 22p, it will make the server crash. I removed them (changed nothing else to test it), and it work. I’ve tested this and i can recreate it as well. Anyway Just Keep your SV_hostname as short as possible, that seems to solve that problem.
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Use the default settings, i have changed nothing except for my sv_hostname and a few variable settings (like administrator, icq, location, etc etc), The server runs fine with antilag on and people ping in the 20’s to 40’s (it’s a Central Server located in Dallas TX by my hosting Company i run)
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Try running these punbuster values in this CFG i got off of the evenbalance, between running these ping went down 5-6 for me and actual game play was a little bit smoother.
; last updated 6/4/03
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; This file, pbsvcvar.cfg, is provided by Even Balance, Inc.
; for Server Administrators as a sample/suggested set of commands
; to use for monitoring player cvar values in Return to Castle Wolfenstein
; and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
;
; These commands can be activated in various ways:
; 1) do a copy/paste and place the commands into the pbsv.cfg file
; so that PunkBuster automatically activates the commands every time
; it is launched
; 2) place this file in the “pb” folder and enter “pb_sv_load pbsvcvar.cfg”
; into the server console
; or
; 3) simply enter the commands directly into the game server console
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; If you believe that this file needs to be updated to remove any of the
; command lines or that other lines should be added, please
; email us at research@evenbalance.com with your comments
;
pb_sv_cvar cg_bobup in 0 0.005
pb_sv_cvar cg_bobpitch in 0 0.002
pb_sv_cvar cg_bobroll in 0 0.002
pb_sv_cvar cg_fov in 90 140
pb_sv_cvar cg_shadows in 0 1
pb_sv_cvar cl_maxpackets in 15 100
pb_sv_cvar cl_timenudge in -50 0
pb_sv_cvar r_gamma in 0 2
pb_sv_cvar r_intensity in 0 1.5
pb_sv_cvar r_mapoverbrightbits in 0 2
pb_sv_cvar r_overbrightbits in 0 2
pb_sv_cvar r_picmip in 0 2
pb_sv_cvar rate in 2500 25000
pb_sv_cvar snaps in 20 40a
pb_sv_cvar com_maxfps out 0.000001 40
pb_sv_cvar r_uifullscreen in 0
pb_sv_cvar m_pitch out -0.011 0.011
pb_sv_cvar r_flares in 0 1
pb_sv_cvar cg_thirdperson in 0
;NOTE: the following 2 lines only work for PB Server v0.991 and later
pb_sv_task 300 600 “pb_sv_cvarsrch com_maxfps”
pb_sv_task 600 600 “pb_sv_bindsrch com_maxfps”
I am not part of the Server Patch Beta so I dont know what all they have fixed. (I wish i could be though =P)
If you have any questions or need help feel free to contact me,
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-Rage, Admin@clanheaven.com