MAX_GAMESTATE_CHARS

(pazur) #1

i know spamming is not nice, but may someone here help me with this. my map was played on a 64 player server and this error occured: MAX_GAMESTATE_CHARS

what is this?

(Hewster) #2

I dunno if you have the answer to this yet, but I’ll try and answer it for
you :slight_smile:

MAX_GAMESTATE_CHARS is to-do with (I think) the amount of info the
server sends a client when it needs a game-state update, for example
when a client first joins a game.

now in RtCW this limit is 16000 (bytes ?) so basically this error is
saying that there is too much going on in the game to send all the
needed info to a client, this may be because of :

  1. too many players
  2. too many entities ect

to fix, either:

  1. run servers with less players
  2. remove some entities from the map & re-compile
  3. (if this is for ET ?) get SD to increase the MAX_GAMESTATE_CHARS

I suspect the real answer is you have too many entities in your map.

Hope this helps

Hewster

(pazur) #3

wow. thnaks for this comprehensive explanation. somehow the guys of happy penguin managed to run my map on their server :clap: one of them said it was some problem with shrub mod. im gonna do a dual objective of natterbase and i want to cleanup entities(now about 720)… my ambition is to go down to 650 :eek2: