ghost players

[corbin]

im having a problem on my zombie server, i don't know if this is a problem anyone else has run acrossed or not.. But im having issues with ghost players in the server.. on the server list is shows how many players are currently in the server, for example. when i connect it will say something like 31/32 players in the server. but when im in the server it only shows 20 players. this only happends in our zombie server that im aware of.. so im not totally sure if its zombie mod or the actually server. But i thought i would post here anyways just to make sure. so if anyone knows how to fix this i would really appreciate it. thx corbin

[Vincent90]

im having a problem on my zombie server, i don't know if this is a problem anyone else has run acrossed or not.. But im having issues with ghost players in the server.. on the server list is shows how many players are currently in the server, for example. when i connect it will say something like 31/32 players in the server. but when im in the server it only shows 20 players. this only happends in our zombie server that im aware of.. so im not totally sure if its zombie mod or the actually server. But i thought i would post here anyways just to make sure. so if anyone knows how to fix this i would really appreciate it. thx corbin

Maybe they are downloading the tex and map from your server. Because it download at like 3-4kb/s at all.

[corbin]

well thats not the case, we have a fastdownload server only takes a few seconds to dl all our maps..

im not total sure how this happends but i need to fix this.

[Games]

It could be steam itself, try it with "hlsw" to see if it also happens with that.

[corbin]

i ran hlsw program. there are these ? comes up for the ghost players. no name no id no ip. i can't kick them or anything. all i know is that most of the time these ghost players take up atleast 8 slots so i can't fill my 32 man server. ive been talking to the host about this and he hasn't ran into this problem before. i'll inclued a ss of this showing you. im thinking there timedout players that connected then disconnected maybe i don't know.. i don't think there clients trying to connect either because they will stay there until i reset server.



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[KingPin]

see what the log says about those players, are there any error in the log? maybe some names flashing by in the log that aren't in the server at the moment but might be one of the "?"

[Games]

I moslty have a ? for a very short period of time it's just someone that's connection to the server.
But your situation seems pretty weird since you have multiple ?'s

I suggest you try the steam source dedicated server forum at http://www.steampowered.com perhaps more people had the same problem.

[corbin]

my apologies
i couldn't figure out how to do thumbnails, i'll check the steam forums thanks guys.

check the forums no luck. i restarted the server last night about 3am when no one but the ghosts where in there and so far none have returned. could it be possible that a map could cause this?

[sheryip]

i ran hlsw program. there are these ? comes up for the ghost players. no name no id no ip. i can't kick them or anything. all i know is that most of the time these ghost players take up atleast 8 slots so i can't fill my 32 man server. ive been talking to the host about this and he hasn't ran into this problem before. i'll inclued a ss of this showing you. im thinking there timedout players that connected then disconnected maybe i don't know.. i don't think there clients trying to connect either because they will stay there until i reset server.



Picture attachement removed, was too big and broke the borders, Thumbnailed link added. - KingPin

the question marks ( ? ) are people that is connecting either joining or downloading the contents off the server. if you not using sv_downloadurl or if they are a 56k. it will take a while to connect so it will show a ? until the player joins into the game. so what you are seeing is perfectly normal. since its an 3rd party mod for css. not everybody have the models or maps.

[corbin]

i understand that, but they don't ever go away lol. even when theres no one in the server. i would understand for the 56kers but it still should only take maybe 10mins max to dl the map i would think. but these ghost stay in there perminately until i reset server.

[sheryip]

you by any chance not running fakeclient plugin are you?

also can you list all the plugins you running

[corbin]

we have mani 1.2betaN,metamod 1.3,zombiemod 1.2.4 and steambanv2.2.