The option is now available to test your server with dynamic pricing.

This was taken from Alfred Reynolds at Valve Software on the HLDS Mailing list:

We have released a special beta of Counter-Strike: Source for the new
dynamic weapon pricing feature. If you want to try out this new
functionality on your server then run the hldsupdatetool with
"cstrike_beta" as the game parameter, for example:

Win32:
./hldsupdatetool -command update -game cstrike_beta -dir.

Linux:
./steam -command update -game cstrike_beta -dir.

Please let us know if you come across any bugs so we can post it on the mailing list.

Howdy,

It seems that in the new beta release is a bit of a bug. My server crashes or freezes about once / hour. This did not happen with the old version.

I'm using the new cstrike_beta and mani_admin_plugin. Everything starts ok. But after an hour or so the server drops all the players with the notice:

L1013044.log:L 10/13/2006 - 19:04:12: "Player<45><STEAM_0:0:xxxxx><CT>" disconnected (reason "This Steam account is being used in another location

And i mean _Everyone_ is dropped. Then the server restarts itself and all is well again - for about an hour.

I mean wtf? What could cause this? Any ideas?

Br,
Seppo_

maybe mani_admin_plugin is not compatible with this version?

It is: http://www.mani-admin-plugin.com/index.p...pic=2281.0
And he's taking care of it on their forums it looks like.

Yes, it seems that this problem is related to mani_admin_plugin, because the problem did not appear after I took the plugin off. Sorry about the false alarm dudes.

I'll put this here aswell. Moderator may remove if needed.

I think it is a kindoff bug with the linux version of the new beta release. The server freezes after about 30-60 minutes of play for about 2 minutes. During this time you cannot type into console and server drops all clients. After the freeze is over - everything goes back to normal. This was / is not a problem with the "normal" release of CS:Source.

First i thought this was a problem with my plugins (mani_admin_plugin and etb), but after a lot of testing - disabling the plugins only postponed the freeze.

I am running the srcds server with AMD Athlon XP running @ 2.0Ghz and Debian (Woody) linux.

However. I solved this problem only temporary by renice:ing the srcds_* processes to -10. After this the server did not freeze.

Edit: Not solved. Problem persists.

Best Regards,
Seppo

This post was last modified: 10-19-2006 10:38 PM by Seppo_.

Thanks for telling us Seppo_

oh dear,

It seems that i jumped the gun on the previous post. Problem persists with the new beta and my debian server now running kernel 2.6.18-cks1 (updated on the advice on post: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/sh...p?t=486424

It is still a bit unclear if this is caused by addons or not. I have had sufficent time to test it without mani_admin_plugin, and it seems that mani is not the reason for this problem - it freezes also without mani enabled. Now I have taken off all addons (I had only zBlockMIN running) and see what happens.

But i will continue to test this more. Just to let you know about this, that not all is clear with the linux (amd) beta version of srcds.

Br,
Seppo

After extensive testing last night I can say for sure that the problem is in the CS:source Beta -server. I tested the beta release server with clean install and the problem repeated.

Just to clarify the problem.

I am running the srcds server with AMD Athlon XP running @ 2.0Ghz (1GB) and Debian linux (kernel now 2.6.18-cks1). The CS:Source beta server starts up fine but after 10-20 minutes of gameplay (tested only 3-> players) it freezes - nothing can be typed in the console and after a while all clients are dropped. After 2-3 minutes the server continues to operate.

This is not an issue with addons, because the problem exists on a clean install of CS:Source beta. There is not any problems with the normal release of CS:S.

Anyone got any ideas?

Br,
Seppo

This post was last modified: 10-20-2006 03:51 PM by Seppo_.

Well, the actual update is here...
Broke all my servers with "Incorrect Price Blob" error.

~tram

It broke pretty much everything, there's lag when playing (clientside), graphics are totally f*cked up and servers are outdated or not running as they should.

Anyone know how to fix this issue? Broke all my servers too! I think it might be machine specific. I copied a *working* copy from another machine and put it on a machine that wasn't working and that copy stopped working as well. Its very odd. They are windows machines, and seeing as its happening on *nix too, it isn't OS specific.

D.

Does the server crash right away? If not, you could try putting mp_dynamicpricing 0 in your autoexec as a temp fix. Sorry guys, I don't know what to tell you.

Lol don't worry, I think everyone is left in the dark on this one