Server errors

(Khalsa) #1

Hello,

I was wondering if you guys know might know the solution to the problem I’ve been having.

I’m running an ETQW demo server on my PC for friends to play on. In the console log, I get alot of ###Bad String #str_00000609### and WARNING: Unknown String ID ‘#str_00000000’ outputs. Whenever an admin kicks someone, forces someone to switch sides, those outputs are shown. I want to be able to see who kicked who and stuff. Some more information:

When someone gets forced to switch from GDF to Strogg, the following message shows:

###Bad String #str_00011102###
WARNING: Failed to localize 'game/playerjoined'
###game/playerjoined###

And when someone gets kicked by admin:

hitch (68 msec)
client 2 ###Bad String #str_00000609###
K1M ###Bad String #str_00000609###
client 2 disconnected.
hitch (100 msec)

I did some research and i think it has to do with the file:


\Program Files\id Software\Enemy Territory - QUAKE Wars Demo 2\base\zpak_english000.pk4

From my console log, it doesn’t look like this file gets loaded:

2011-02-06 19:48:37 : log file 'logs/ETQW_2011-02-06_19-48.log' opened on 2011-2-6, 19:48:37
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : si_version: ETQW 1.4.12194.33071  win-x86 Jan 16 2008 11:32:31
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : g_version: 
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : Current search path:
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : E:\Documents and Settings\JD\My Documents\id Software\Enemy Territory - QUAKE Wars Demo/base
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : E:\Documents and Settings\Jas\Local Settings\Application Data\id Software\Enemy Territory - QUAKE Wars Demo\ServerLauncher/base
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : E:\Program Files\id Software\Enemy Territory - QUAKE Wars Demo 2/base
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : E:\Program Files\id Software\Enemy Territory - QUAKE Wars Demo 2\base\pak002.pk4 (654 files - 0x4082d93f not referenced)
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : E:\Program Files\id Software\Enemy Territory - QUAKE Wars Demo 2\base\pak001.pk4 (1122 files - 0x452281ea not referenced)
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : E:\Program Files\id Software\Enemy Territory - QUAKE Wars Demo 2\base\pak000.pk4 (6064 files - 0xb920556e referenced)
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : E:\Program Files\id Software\Enemy Territory - QUAKE Wars Demo 2\base\game002.pk4 (3 files - 0x40b37d8a not referenced)
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : E:\Program Files\id Software\Enemy Territory - QUAKE Wars Demo 2\base\game000.pk4 (3 files - 0x18457bb4 not referenced)
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : Addon pk4s:
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : Vendor:10DE Device:00C0
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : ------- Initializing renderSystem --------
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : renderSystem initialized.
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : --------------------------------------
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : WARNING: Unknown String ID '#str_00000000'
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : WARNING: Unknown String ID '#str_00000000'
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : WARNING: Unknown String ID '#str_00001001'
2011-02-06 19:48:37 : WARNING: Unknown String ID '#str_00001001'

Then the log file is followed by hundreds of warning messages. I can paste the whole log if needed.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot.

Khalsa

(Scrupus) #2

I don’t think there is any simple way to fix those - the demo build is very old and was never updated with the last patches and such. Besides, we see the similar warnings in some game mods also with the normal server - it’s really hard to get rid of those (not even sure if it’s possible), so my best advice is to save the effort and some gray hairs, by simply ignoring them :wink:

Why run the demo server btw - the real game costs nothing these days and the 11 extra maps is well worth it.

(Khalsa) #3

Thanks for the reply Scrupus. The reason I play the demo is because I’ve been on it for a while and made some good friends. We have our own small little community where everyone knows everyone else. We even have a few clans as well :stuck_out_tongue: Me and my clanmates use the server to chill and have fun. I played the full version a few times but all new maps are too confusing and take a long time to get used to.

Anyway back to the topic… I just want to be able to monitor admin activity, if there is another way I can accomplish this I’ll be happy with that. I talked to another demo server admin who says he is able to see who kicks who on the console log -.- Can it be because I’m running it on a Windows OS and not Linux? I’m willing to go through the effort if anyone knows a solution to this :wink:

Thanks again,
Khalsa