I am starting to go crazy. I've looked at all possibilities and now looking for some guidance/ideas on what to try next. After playing a few minutes, all the players in the server get a red "WARNING: Connection problem Auto-disconnect in 30 seconds" in the top right corner. During the first few seconds, if you try a "retry" in console it won't connect, but eventually it goes through before the 30 seconds. If you don't retry and just wait, you time out. So it's possible to reconnect before the 30 seconds is over.. but it won't reconnect on its own. While this happens, I can still ping the server from a command line, but the game server itself is not responding.
I've done a fresh new srcds install. There are no plugins. I've tried with no config (!) and with a league config to be safe on the values.. Computer: OS: Windows 2003 Web Ed Ram : 2 GB - 1GB free CPU: Intel Dual Core 2.8 GHZ I then installed the server on a seperate machine with identical specs, and I am getting the same issue. Both were fresh downloads off hldsupdatetool. I didn't copy any files over. What haven't I ruled out? Now if I can add, I am running some ventrilo servers on the same machines, and none of them show any form of lag or disconnection at any point. The connection error message is random, it can be while multiple users are in the server, or a single user. It will also happen even if I'm just sitting in the server, specating before picking a team...! In the client console, it shows only this: Server connection timed out. The server log is empty. It creates a new log at the time of "crash" with this: L 05/27/2009 - 11:35:04: Log file started (file "logs\L0527028.log") (game "C:\somefolder\orangebox\tf") (version "3847") L 05/27/2009 - 11:35:04: server_cvar: "mp_maxrounds" "2" L 05/27/2009 - 11:35:04: server_cvar: "mp_tournament" "1" L 05/27/2009 - 11:35:04: server_cvar: "tv_enable" "1" L 05/27/2009 - 11:35:04: server_cvar: "tf_damage_disablespread" "1" L 05/27/2009 - 11:35:04: server_cvar: "tf_weapon_criticals" "0" L 05/27/2009 - 11:35:04: server_cvar: "mp_autoteambalance" "0" L 05/27/2009 - 11:35:04: server_cvar: "mp_respawnwavetime" "10" L 05/27/2009 - 11:35:04: server_cvar: "mp_teams_unbalance_limit" "0" L 05/27/2009 - 11:35:04: Log file closed looks like it only restarts the map? I can't make any sense out of this... please help! Steve _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
