other additional info for someone to help,
php 7.3.31-1~deb10u1
sql 10.3.36-MariaDB-0+deb10u2 Debian 10
perl 5.28.1
i'm using new version hlstats 1.7.0 NomisCZ (apparently for php 7.0 and higher)
https://github.com/NomisCZ/hlstatsx-community-edition
last try before i get to the asylum for ill ones, i try to downgrade perl to 5.20.3 or 5.24, hopefully it might help. Or shoud i downgrade even sql ?