What can cause overflow??? Created 14 years ago2010-12-04 11:06:31 UTC by Stojke

Ok so, my map Lab16 was working perfectly, but it had some bugs, so i fixed em and replaced some traps. Now that map (fixed one) is lab16_b. Some times when its played on my server, the map kicks 15 players with message:

Player has overflowed

And it only happens on my map, in the middle of the map, and as i noticed it only happens when a certain func_train trap activates (it doesnt happen instantly, only after a few rounds)...

Can any one suggest what to do?

From my experience, it's usually caused by either a mass flow of custom textures, or the map requesting too much memory for one portion. I would reduce visibility in the area if it's too large.

You could try adding -dev and watch it go as it's played out, the console should print everything when it happens. My guess it's a memory overload. The HL engine was revolutionary at the time but now it's pretty weak of what we expect it to handle.

Oh i see, well i have 5 custom textures, placed only as commercials on 2 places, nothing much. Must be the other thing.

Thanks! Im gonna test it to determine what happened.

yeah that little texturing would not do it. You must have too much for one small area, other than that it's an issue outside my level

Let us know how it goes.

If that doesn't work, try copying your entire level, opening up a new RMF, and pasting it. I just remember the last time I got an overflow error, I just recopied it, and it worked fine.

Okay, so update on progress, so far i havent noticed what actually caused it, but when i removed the trains it stopped occurring O_o

I have replaced it with func_door and 2 multi managers contacting each other. Will see if that works.