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UnDead
03-08-2003, 01:02 AM
Hey Buzz and Hammer,

Running SPearhead TOW only server. Most current EA patch. Dedicated server rented from Combat gaming servers

We are having a Spearhead map addition problem with MAM.
We are trying to input a custom TOW map into the maplist. All the default TOW maps work fine with Moh_adminmod.

But when Grabstatte, which is the custom TOW map, is played every so often, too often, all players on the server will lose there screen and it will display 3 germans fireing a flak88 snapshot. Now this isn't an action picture, none of the germans are moving, just a picture of 3 germans shooting a flak. Almost like its from the single player game?? Now the only way to get rid of it is to reload the map, but usually it will come back a few min later.

Now when I remove the moh_adminmod the Custom TOW map plays fine as do all the maps in spearhead with this screen never popping up. This also happened to me when testing the pjg script.

I have seen this happen with the PJG2.0 script in OBJ maps a few times but not at often. Mainly when we would force the gametype change and change to the hunt for example. It would run fine then that picture would pop up on everyones screen.

Do you think the security MAM is causing it. I have it on.

Right now we are running mam 1.0a, with CI 1.3.0.0. Now it doesn't matter if CI is running or not.

We currently have on force honesty mam security. And like I said everything works fine when we run the 4 default TOW maps with mam. Just when we add Grabstatte to the maplist or we vote to play it.

Is it because theres no precache for it?

Also when we get the 3 germans and the firing flak painting screen, we can move and shoot fine, and I can open doors on the map but I cannot see anything but the painting. It takes up the whole screen. Thanks for any insight. It happens randomly so its doesn't appear to be a set time, just it freaks out and give the painting screen on all players.

You can download Grabstatte if you need to test it at OCGamers.net.

Thanks for any help

UnDead

I still have not figured this out. This is what I found so far.


Found the file name. mission1fail_1.jpg. Is there a way to inactivate these, so that you can play even if server glitches and pulls them up. SInce the map still plays normally, just you cannot see where you are going because of the picture. Setup a pk3 file that refers to nothing instead of that picture?.

We have no additional Pk3s but Grabstatte and MAM newest versions. Has anyone seen this? Thanks all for any light you can shed. THis seems to also happen when switching from TOW to OBJ to TOW. Its very random when this screen comes up> I have recently turned off developer also and the log 3 file. Maybe that is causing it? Who knows. I just want to find out if anyone else is seeing this screen popping up in the multiplayer game of Spearhead.

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UnDead
03-08-2003, 01:04 AM
Could it be a hack, like the spawning subs? I hope not. Well anyway developer is off now so we'll see if it happens again. Could it be an bug that MAM brings out in Spearhead? It happened with the PJG script too.