[Bimbo1]

Hello, I made a plugin to create boxes. But it crashes when I put a lot of boxes. Why does it happen? Help me please *-*.
The error is:
ED_Alloc: no free edicts.
What does it mean?
How do I fix it?

[Samantha]

Source Engine has a 2048 Limit on entities created. You went spawned the 2049th one and CRASH.

[Bimbo1]

Is there any way to change it?

[McFlurry]

You could try using CreateEdict() before you use CreateEntityByName to reduce the amount of crashes though make sure you aren't spawning too many. The limit is hard coded at 2048 you can't make it bigger.

[Bimbo1]

And if I want to spawn a lot of entities? I want to spawn much more than 2048.

[Samantha]

Not possible.

[FaTony]

You can't. Period. You can spawn as you walk through the map but it's single player solution.

[Chief149]

I am having a similar issue, but this is the result of Source Engine attempting to make a '2049th' entity when there are less than 2048 entities in total. 500 less to be exact.

Think of every entity being in an array, indexed from 0 to 2047. When an entity gets destroyed or killed or deleted, the index in the array where it was once located is set to NULL or 'blank'. What the server is doing is attempting to access index 2048 (entity 2049) which results in a crash. However, it ignores the fact that there are over 500 other indexes that could hold a new entity.

Basically Source Engine is made up of the most shitty code ever created.

[friagram]

You are gravedigging a post from 2010
Also, when entities are destroyed, they are flagged to be reallocated and are... The lowest most index will be used that is tagged free (generally).

[Mitchell]

Originally Posted by Chief149 Basically Source Engine is made up of the most shitty code ever created.

Have you looked at the code? It was designed to be as fast and as efficent as possible, im sure Source2 will solve alot of the issues everyone has with the engine alot with introducing many, many more bugs.