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Help with servers

by Braveheart · in Torque Game Engine · 04/21/2008 (8:27 pm) · 8 replies

I have a server hosted on my computer. All needed ports are forwarded. People can connect fine and get in-game, I used to be able to connect fine I can also get into other servers fine.

But now it stops at "Loading Objects" and will not load anymore, what's going on? What have I done? How can I rectify this?


Thanks!
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Torque Owner Jason "fireVein" Culwell
#1
04/22/2008 (2:04 am)
Mine does this too occasionally, I think its because I had added ITickable to gameTSCtrl. If I do a return; at the beginning of the function it never "freezes".

Associate Ian Omroth Hardingham
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#2
04/22/2008 (3:24 am)
Robbie - you don't have any really masssive datablocks do you? If you do, then there's a maximum packet size for some forwarding ISPs which will literally cut off the end of the DB during load and freeze the process.

Torque Owner Braveheart
#3
04/22/2008 (6:47 am)
Hmm, we may have some large datablocks, BUT the datablocks loading goes fine it just stops on loading ghost objects...

I also noticed that in both occasions on which I've tried numerous times to connect to my own server (first time this started happening then the second which was last night), my internet is affected and it actually goes off for a good while... What the hell?

Associate Ian Omroth Hardingham
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#4
04/22/2008 (6:48 am)
It's probably not the DB issue then... does the console show any useful output?

Torque Owner Braveheart
#5
04/22/2008 (10:14 am)
Now it is happening with other clients not just me, we could all connect to a server fine, not it's stopping at "loading objects" for everyone. Apparently a server restart fixes it. But what causes it?

BUT a server restart does not fix the issue I originally posted about, connecting to a server hosted on my own computer...

The console just says "*** Starting Phase 2: Downloading Ghost Objects" and no progress on the bar is made at all.

Associate Ian Omroth Hardingham
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#6
04/22/2008 (11:57 am)
If this is new behavour, might try going back to a previous version which works and doing a dif.

Torque Owner Braveheart
#7
04/22/2008 (12:42 pm)
Certain people are getting stopped at "loading objects" others are getting into the server fine... This really is annoying since there's no way to tell WHAT is causing it.

This is our first build which is working fine for most everyone except one or two people. Unless I try connecting to a server I host it happens to me also.

Torque Owner Infinitum3D
#8
05/08/2008 (4:45 am)
Are you trying to connect from the same computer as the server, or from a secondary computer?

Can you connect to your game if someone else hosts as server?

If someone else hosts as server, can they connect as client as well, or do they have the same freeze?

I really don't have anything useful to add, I'm just trying to get as much info as possible. It sounds like an internet problem rather than a Torque problem. What is your transfer rate of your internet connection? (ie, dial-up, cable, dsl, T1, T3?)

Tony