[Leon M.]

Originally Posted by morfin You can patch your engine.dll with hex editor(search something like this: 81FFFF01 where FF01 is number 511 in hex with reversed byte order)and server will precache more

And this should work? Any experience with this solution?

[Jack86]

Originally Posted by morfin You can patch your engine.dll with hex editor(search something like this: 81FFFF01 where FF01 is number 511 in hex with reversed byte order)and server will precache more

Did u tried it or u just think it will work, cause i dont wanna test it on my own server

[quofuvad]

Try to remove some preloading files ( sounds, models ... from some plugins )

[Arkshine]

Originally Posted by Jack86 Did u tried it or u just think it will work, cause i dont wanna test it on my own server

Yes, it works. I've tested with the max we can write FFFF, and the limit is now around ~65535. ( I've tested with MonsterMod by declaring all the monsters at once )

[platzpatrone]

should it work for linux too ?

[Arkshine]

I've tested only for linux.

[platzpatrone]

nice Arkshine. just laughing now a bit and wondering when Valve will prevent this hint too in future updates

EDIT:
should every entry with: 81FFFF01 be edited ? there are more as 1 :/

[Arkshine]

There are limits for specific reasons. I'm not sure also it's legal to do that, but you could use module to alter the memory instead of altering the file.

should every entry with: 81FFFF01 be edited ? there are more as 1 :/

You have 3 values to changes. One by function PF_precache_*(). ( generic, model, sound ). In these functions there is a check like if ( objets > 511 ) and this 511 you need to change three times.


EDIT : I can't connect to my server. I'm going to try a lower value.
EDIT2 : for some reason I was getting "Host_Error: Unknown consistency type 16695152" error ; use mp_consistency to 0 and you won't get this error.
EDIT3 : it actually may not working as expected. I've tried to spawn all monters one by one, and for some monsters it crashes saying such sound has to be precached in spawn function. Something is fucked up. :/
EDIT4 : well after a lot of search, i've altering more references (15) related to precache, still not results, it crashes when it tries to precache the 512th model. It sounds like there is somewhere something which initialises the size of the array. It needs probably to be altered, but where?

[platzpatrone]

Sorry to hear Arkshine.

maybe someone can code a cool module to alter this, if it can be altered.
but as u says: Where?

i can't understand why Valve sets those Limit, is it so usefull ?
i dont think so, it limits the ability to play nice maded maps

[Arkshine]

Well I guess it's because it costs some more resources on the client so there is a limit. But now, they should increase at least with 1023. It would be nice and would not hurt.

About the crash, I don't get anymore the 512 blabla error ; just when it starts to precache the 512th, there is a crash, without error. If precache is an array, it would be like an "out of bound" error I guess. With IDA i've checked all the 511 or 512 reference to not miss any reference to change but I did not found any reference about setting an array size or something like. It's quite hard to understand some function with no solid knowledge, so right now I'm blocked.