Map Causing A Server Crash?

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<div class="IPBDescription">when a player joins...</div> This is for a map that's unrelated to the other map I'm working on with the elevator problem.

Nothing in the server logs, someone joined and down she went apparently. I've never heard of this (the ns_lost crash was strictly client-side I believe) and searches on the forum have yielded little that could help me. It's a combat map, mostly a custom wad. 4 particle systems all identical and side by side. The previous version ran fine, and most of the updates were just geometry and detail. Runs fine on my machine, but when it was loaded onto a dedicated server, as soon as someone joined, the server just crashed. Sorry I don't have more info than that as I can't really play and have to go through what people tell me.

I do plan to try a version without the particle systems, but setting that up through my friendly server op is a bit of a pain. Just looking for ideas in the mean time.

If anyone has any ideas I'd like to hear them!

DarkATi

Is it co or NS?

In Co if neither the CC or Hive are set to "Starts Built" then this can crash a server... though it usually just boots everyone back to the rr... sometimes it crashes a server... happened to me before.

~ DarkATi

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It's a co map. Just double checked after reading that and both are set to start built still. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

the_bERt

if you have so much custom stuff in your map you should try to check the .res file. since it runs fine on your map, maybe the downloading buggs
you could also try to run the server with -dev to give you more feedback what happens before the crash