Server hanging at map change

[Cleg]

Hi all. We are Experiencing a persistent problem on our server, running in HQ mode. Every so often the server “hangs” at the end of a map, and will leave everyone in spectator mode, unable to join. All we need to do is manually move the map on and its fine again, as long as one of the Admins is on the server, otherwise it empties out rather rapidly (for some reason lol)

We have tried various things, changing the scorelimit from 450 (default) to 0, so it runs out on time – but this stops any points being scored, we have also tried setting the scorelimit to 3000 so the time must run out first, but it still does it.

Anyone else found this, or got a cure for it?

Thanks in advance, Cleg

[Knox]

it could be simply a space missing in your map rotation.

I had a similer problem when I first set up my server.. Is it consistant on the same map or is it random?

[Cleg]

have checked the map cfg, all looks ok. Its not always the same map that it hangs on, and it seems to do it at random. some times it will run right through the rotation sevral times with NP, then another day it will hang every couple of maps.

[karmajay]

Hi, did you ever figure out the reason for this?

I'm running custom maps in TDM mode.

Sometimes it will run for a long time no problem. Sometimes it hangs up on arandom map.

Does it have to do with just the map programming? I find sometimes a certain order of maps will mess the server up, but if I change the order it will work fine.

I've checked the spacing a million times also.

[Cleg]

we did, and it was down to the map.cfg. On much closer inspection we found an extra space, looks like it has the same efect as a space missing.

[karmajay]

Ok, thanks..guess I'll look again!

[karmajay]

Ok, I think I may have figured it out.

I read to get the correct name for the custom maps, you can go into 'Make a server' mode and view the correct map names in the right column.

For some reason some, some custom maps that does not work. To get the actual map name, you have to actually enter the map to ensure you have the correct name!

Thanks for the help!