Plugins Ignoring CFG Files

waka-waka · **Author**

I have an extremely annoying issue with my modified L4D 2 server.

Sometimes certain plugins being loaded prevents other plugins from obeying the variables set in their CFG files. They outright ignore them and use their default values. Sometimes they even ignore the values if I try to force them with sm_cvar or similar.

It's extremely annoying and been an issue for awhile now.

Is this a common problem or am I running into some weird/odd bug with sourcemod?

I'm running Metamod 1.8.1 hg699 and Sourcemod 1.3.2 hg2948 if this helps.

Newf · 04-28-2010 , 16:59 Re: Plugins Ignoring CFG Files

i'm experiencing that on occasion as well.

waka-waka · 04-28-2010 , 17:04 Re: Plugins Ignoring CFG Files

I just tried the latest Sourcemod 1.4.0 build, hg2961, to no avail. Some plugins are still ignoring CFG settings.

Newf · 04-28-2010 , 17:08 Re: Plugins Ignoring CFG Files

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Originally Posted by waka-waka

I just tried the latest Sourcemod 1.4.0 build, hg2961, to no avail. Some plugins are still ignoring CFG settings.

normally i have all my infected/survivor cvars in a versus.cfg. but since the new update, that hadn't been working, once i put them all in my server.cfg, they worked again.

waka-waka · 04-28-2010 , 17:11 Re: Plugins Ignoring CFG Files

I think if anything the most recent update to L4D 2 has made it worse. I've noticed it before the update as well.

As an example, I wanted to try out Perkmod for L4D 2, but when I installed it, it would completely mess up the item buying system and made it ignore its CFG settings in cfg/sourcemod/. As soon as I removed it everything went back to normal.

It's pretty random. Sometimes a plugin goes in just fine, no problems, other times it'll cause another plugin to ignore its CFG settings. It doesn't seem to be specific to one or two plugins.

Is it possible for coding errors or something to cause other plugins to ignore their settings?

I'm not even sure if this is a sourcemod issue or a plugin issue really.

waka-waka · 07-14-2010 , 11:09 Re: Plugins Ignoring CFG Files

I thought I'd give this a bump because almost three months later it's still a major problem for me. I've been through all the official Sourcemod and Metamod updates. There is no rhyme or reason as to why it happens from what I can tell.

I even did a file for file copy of one server install to a completely different dedicated server. The copied server had cfg issues while the one it was copied from was fine.

So I'm open to tips and suggestions as this severely limits my ability to use more than a couple 3rd party plugins.