PainKiller

I am beyond hyped! I really am!

Dude that looks so fun! I'll have to try that some time

Always happy to help! Especially in a game that helped define my teen years (mostly because I met you fuckers). It's okay if you weren't around. I wasn't on Saturday but I was wondering where you were!

Hi everyone. As we come close to the end of 2019 and the 2010's I have put together a new rotation for the TDM server. It features old favorites that I know we all love and some not so well played ones (just to mix it up a bit). We have a grand total of 44 maps and 5 packs, with two rotations just to split it up a bit. I just thought it would make a nice end to the year and get rid of the steam pile of shit that my old rotation was. Can I ask that our players remove their current .iwd files so it contains the packs iw_00.iwd to iw_15.iwd as well as localized_english_iw00.iwd to localized_english_iw11.iwd. This will make your 'main' folder pure and safe for you to get the new packs and have no conflicts. The new packs are named as follows: ON_19_1 ON_19_2 ON_19_3 OS_19_1 OS_19_2 I AM AWARE OF THE ISSUES PEOPLE GET WITH DOWNLOADING SUCH AS FAILURES BUT THAT IS JUST THE SERVER TIMING OUT ON YOU. IT IS NOT OUR FAULT, JUST YOUR SHITTY CONNECTION. As a final note, if anyone has any suggestions such as a mix up of CTF and TDM, throw it to Loader and I and we'll see what we can do.

I've been getting the same issue with WoW as well, in some areas the game runs smooth as hell but loading up something like Dalaran or even being in Suramar takes the piss and is so choppy. I'd recommend making sure your drivers are up to date and also toning down your graphics a bit and see if you can sort it that way. Might be a graphic issue. Also check if anything else is running on the network and using up bandwidth.

Happy birthday, Stradler! Have a good one mate!

And I have told you once you have the maps downloaded then you'll be set until I change the rotation again. We get connection timeouts (causing download failures) but that is down to the server host not us. There are only three downloads you need to do. Granted you already have the mod.

It's always good to see I am #1 let's keep it that way, yes?

Battle.net: WhiteRaven94#2992 I can't remember by activision one so you'll have to go with that

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Good news, I have been given a new key for CoD2 from the place I purchased it from and that should now work. Can't keep an idiot out that easily!

It happens to every map I haven't got downloaded. What I am having to do now is close the game and re-open it and connect again and it seems to work. Just disconnecting from the server and connecting again doesn't work unfortunately. I am not sure how the file structure and redirect looks for CoD4 so I can't really think of any other fixes than what I have now. It might be different from what I know for CoD2. That one I am very familiar with and how it handles map packs and .iwd's.

Keep it to XI and also just spout out random insults. I am certain we had this system in before on CoD4, unless it had been abused and was removed.

Okay thanks. I know over in CoD2 we get download failures but those are fixed by disconnecting and reconnecting but sadly that didn't work in CoD4. I'll keep that tip in mind

I'm pretty sure this has been covered before but I cannot remember. When I am downloading one of the maps from the server it would randomly stop downloading, restart it and go from my usual download speed to 13kb/s. I disconnect and reconnect through the console, it goes for a bit then does the same thing. Over and over. Any fixes out there that I can do to prevent it from happening? I was going to use the XI downloader but it couldn't connect so I am assuming that it has gone offline. The only fix I have found so far is to clear out my temp folder in Windows but that's all I got going for me. I knew I should have backed up all my maps as well as my profile when I did a fresh install of Windows (recently bought Windows 10).

That was my first port of call. Sadly I have tried everything and I've decided just to buy a new copy of the game. It's not overly important that I can't play it. I'm sure the server will survive without me for a bit

Firstly, fuck Windows 10 for doing this. Secondly, you don't have to put up with me for a while! So, finally got to upgrading to Windows 10 and I really do enjoy it and it's nice and all BUT after reinstalling my steam library from a back up I can't play mutliplayer on CoD2. This is because it didn't actually give me my CD key. It's gone! I have tried these: Looking in RegEdit, nothing. Installing Windows 7 on my other HDD and also CoD2 and that was the same, no Key at all. Also verified the games cache, also nothing. It's a right old pain in the ass. For sure. If anyone else has anymore tips then that would be greatly appreciated! It might just be me having to get another key

I'll be down for it, given that I am not busy that weekend but I am thinking I am free.

Thanks i just wasn't sure is all I've almost done that a few times good work

is that a typo? That might be hanging up the server and messing it up. Or there is a map there incompatible with FT and forcing TDM instead

I think it is but the maps are broken into FF files and .arena files, it's still something I am learning with Loader and I've made my fair share of slip ups and editing has been needed. Even though the system may seem rudimentary it still works. Which reminds me, Loader has been having trouble getting into the redirect so we can't sort out maps and rotations - have you had any issues?

oh okay that's an interesting point. I'll look at seeing what I can do when throwing together the new TDM rotation for Cod2. Which I have more time to do now I've broken my arm

It's always good practice to test rotations making sure maps don't crash but this error is a file conflict so, the file the server is trying to read as its own is already being used by another. Say I had the same map on TDM and DM, I would have to keep deleting the map if I wanted to play on the other server because the server will read it, go "wtf this isn't mine" and lose its shit if there was an issue such as a typo in the rotation the server will crash and need rebooting. If the map is on the server and not in rotation then it goes right over it. For example over in CoD2 we have a map called Tobruk. in the rotation it's mp_tobruk. If I typed that wrong in the rotation like mp_tbruk it would crash. If I didn't include the map in the rotation at all it would skip the map as it does now.

You've got conflicting or corrupted .iwd files. It happens every now and then if two servers are running the same custom map because the server does not know what to read. Delete the file and try again. Any time you get an invalid .iwd file follow the path and delete it.

Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes, I had a great day and it was a lot of fun! I'll be sure to pop in so you all have a good shot at knifing me, bashing me or shooting me