Map Causing High Server Ping?

DisruptedHunter

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I just finished creating a map for my Idle Server today and every time I load the map on the Idle server or my others server everyone gets high ping and the server crashes. I am trying to figure it out with my web server host but they can't seem to find anything wrong with the server, so I am not sure if it is the map. I used VIDE to pack my map along with custom unusual effects. I have made multiple custom maps for my server and never ran across this problem until now.

Has anyone else had this problem before or can help?
 

Egan

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Feb 14, 2010
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I've had this happen to me something like 7 years ago, so I might be wrong and I might be remembering incorrectly, but from what I could gather I had copied into the .vmf a part of another map and in doing so copied in an extra 'worldspawn' entity (Map - Map Properties). The way I fixed it at the time was to simply go back to a previous autosave. By default autosaves are stored here:
C:\HammerAutosave\

Alternatively you could attempt to sift through the .vmf in notepad++ (or any other text editor) and see if there is a duplicate worldspawn entity.


It could also maybe be caused by having too many entities being spawned into the map using point_template - if you use those.

For better analysis would you be willing to provide your .vmf @DisruptedHunter ?
 

worMatty

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Could also be down to having too many moving physics props, which includes explosion gibs.