The Crossfire Update - Content Update 0.2.0

[Tenshi07]

@bkdale86

There will be a several more passes made at optimization…things will be worked on just be patient. This is still a WIP.

I like what I see so far. Thanks for the hard work, can’t wait for the next update.

[CANEVER]

@KyuuGryphon

• Whether this is because of the update itself, some of my settings, or the autoexec mentioned above, I have no idea, but I’ve also had BM crash all over the place for no discernible reason. Sometimes when changing levels, sometimes when loading a save file, sometimes when killing an enemy, sometimes when a grenade goes off… It’s all over the place. The one consistent crash I can remember is at the end of Questionable Ethics, in the tunnel just before Surface Tension - Unfortunately, I didn’t get the getpos co-ordinates for it, but looking at the right side of the tunnel at one point (around where the far stairs are, just past the military barricade office) consistently caused the game to crash.

I tried using the console commands you posted to see if I got any improvement on performance, but instead my game started to crash randomly. I think those commands (or one of them — I didn`t test) are causing that.

[Maki]

@AvoidPaypal

@Chickenprotector

Guys, you seem to forget it’s a product that is not done yet. There is a disclaimer on the store page that explicitly states that.

Optimization has always been an issue with BM even on its previous engine. The issues are being hammered out, have some patience.

2 words, constructive criticism.
I doubt anyone cares what that disclaimer says, you dont see us asking for money back, we’re just pointing out stuff that’s not working like it should, if we wouldn’t, we will be relying on faith & luck waiting for a fix, what if developers don’t spot a problem or other, or maybe underestimate it’s importance and delay its fix?

Who better to know what a game needs if not the people playing it.

That, and it’s not always clear what is and isn’t a fluid work-in-progress. We don’t have any insight into how things are progressing or what developmental stage they are intended to represent.

[AvoidPaypal]

@AvoidPaypal

@AvoidPaypal

@Dmx6

Ok i found a new bug:

• On some MP Custom Maps now the Spawns are broken. Players are Spawning only at 1 Spawn. (Noticed at dm_pro_crossfire and dm_spookface)
  I also think the new Muzzleflashes eat a lot of performance. Most on MP5.

Edit:
Only on Custom MP Maps somehow crowbars are Spawning wild and often:

These randomly spawning crowbars are causing servers to use 100% CPU (Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 ,in case model is of any use).They dont seem to occur on every map and even when they occur, sometimes only a few of them appear, other times tons appear making servers crap out due to 100% CPU usage.

So far 5 maps that i know are affected by this: dm_office , dm_spookface , dm_airfusion , dm_steamlab4 , dm_pro_crossfire , airfusion and pro_crossfire have never caused 100% usage (or i didnt see them do it yet, its still too early to tell) but the others i’ve mentioned have.

I’ve also started noticing these black spots on maps that i believe are also affected by the wild crowbar spawning issue.

Edit: OS Debian 7 & 8, i don’t know if this is Linux specific or also happens on Windows servers.

Server performance seems to have also taken a hit after this update, i am seeing the server fps variance (var in net_graph 4) jumping up to suspiciously abnormal values randomly (this is happening while CPU, RAM usage and I/O of the machine are at normal levels), this issue did not exist before the update while running the same maps with the same amount of players, in fact i am seeing it jump regardless of the number of players, it just jumps higher when more are online.
I suspect, though i am not 100% sure that it has something to do with either: 1) spawning items or 2) spawning players.

Tested without any addons installed to confirm they are not responsible for this.

I am not able to see any correlation between CPU,RAM,I/O usage & the var jumping, it seems to happen for no reason and has no cause that i can spot.

PS: I’ve tried disabling the new spawn effect on both players and items, it didn’t make a difference.

Merry Christmas btw, lol.

Edit: It’s not happening on all maps, dm_abyss is not suffering from this problem, i’ll update this post when i have time to test more.

Not affected by this issue:
dm_abyss
dm_crossfire_a6
dm_octagon
dm_stalkx_final
dm_complex

Affected:
dm_crazybox1_v1
dm_dust2_csgo_bms
dm_underlabs_v1
a lot of them…no point to list them

After noticing what i’ve posted earlier it kept bugging me so i’ve started to investigate what might be causing this.

After some testing, i’ve came to the conclusion that this problem is caused by spawning players & only affects certain maps (keep in mind these maps were fine before the update).

As i am not a mapper & know close to nothing about mapping, i’ve informed some of my mapper friends that were online at the time, Crab & Dmx6 about this performance issue i’ve spotted with the hope they will figure out why it’s happening.

Some time has passed and Crab has found out this problem is somehow related to the number of spawn points that are present in a map, a high number of spawn points will cause this problem (maybe there are other factors as well but this is one of them), we’ve done some further testing after finding this and he seems to be right.

Here’s a video showing the performance of affected maps vs non affected maps:

youtube.com/watch?v=Zvb9qFHEOZc

Switch to 1080p & full screen to see better

As mentioned, i know close to nothing about mapping so if specific info is required you will have to get it from Crab or Dmx6.

[Chickenprotector]

@AvoidPaypal

2 words, constructive criticism.
I doubt anyone cares what that disclaimer says, you dont see us asking for money back, we’re just pointing out stuff that’s not working like it should, if we wouldn’t, we will be relying on faith & luck waiting for a fix, what if developers don’t spot a problem or other, or maybe underestimate it’s importance and delay its fix?

Who better to know what a game needs if not the people playing it.

There is a sub-forum for that. I’m not saying don’t report the issues or criticize it but it’s derailing the thread here. I understand the position you’re taking (believe me I do), but there’s a time and a place for everything. That place isn’t here in this case.

[KyuuGryphon]

@CANEVER

@KyuuGryphon

• Whether this is because of the update itself, some of my settings, or the autoexec mentioned above, I have no idea, but I’ve also had BM crash all over the place for no discernible reason. Sometimes when changing levels, sometimes when loading a save file, sometimes when killing an enemy, sometimes when a grenade goes off… It’s all over the place. The one consistent crash I can remember is at the end of Questionable Ethics, in the tunnel just before Surface Tension - Unfortunately, I didn’t get the getpos co-ordinates for it, but looking at the right side of the tunnel at one point (around where the far stairs are, just past the military barricade office) consistently caused the game to crash.

I tried using the console commands you posted to see if I got any improvement on performance, but instead my game started to crash randomly. I think those commands (or one of them — I didn`t test) are causing that.

Yeah, that’s what I’m suspecting at this point. I’m going to look into them a bit later to see if I can nail down any one command that’s causing problems…

EDIT: Okay, I’m fairly sure I’ve pinned it down - “r_queued_decals 1” seems to be causing the crashes. No idea why, but there you go.

[Kaltsu]

I hope this isn´t too off-topic but is there any kind of manual for the new workshop-tool? That publishing tool, I mean. Or am I just an idiot who don´t know how to use a simple tool?

[Fr0z3n]

@Kaltsu

I hope this isn´t too off-topic but is there any kind of manual for the new workshop-tool? That publishing tool, I mean. Or am I just an idiot who don´t know how to use a simple tool?

I’ll be writing and publishing one later today.

[Manu270891]

How can I change the language of the menu and subtitles? Or at least the subtitles to Spanish? Thanks!

[Crypt]

[WORKAROUND] How to enable supported Closed Captions.

[fury]

Yo. Now that you released the crossfire update will you start making some dev streams and community deathmatch-events again?

[Fr0z3n]

@fury

Yo. Now that you released the crossfire update will you start making some dev streams and community deathmatch-events again?

It’s on my list of things to work on, but right now I’m focused on finding and attempting to replicate bugs, or find work-arounds.

The streams will happen!

[Fr0z3n]

I’ve added to/updated the known bug list and moved it over to it’s own thread to make things easier to follow:

Crossfire Update - Known Bug List

[ghostboy1225]

any help with enabling AI? sorry i don’t really understand formatting but ai is disabled for me when i go into we got hostiles and die for some reason restarting the game has no effect and i died on office complex and it hasnt happened do you know any commands to fix this? i also dont have triggers displaying nor has restarting or re

[Fr0z3n]

@ghostboy1225

any help with enabling AI? sorry i don’t really understand formatting but ai is disabled for me when i go into we got hostiles and die for some reason restarting the game has no effect and i died on office complex and it hasnt happened do you know any commands to fix this? i also dont have triggers displaying nor has restarting or re

This sounds like the save corruption bug, you’ll need to restart the chapter by clicking ‘new game’ and choosing the chapter you were on.

[ghostboy1225]

@Fr0z3n

@ghostboy1225

any help with enabling AI? sorry i don’t really understand formatting but ai is disabled for me when i go into we got hostiles and die for some reason restarting the game has no effect and i died on office complex and it hasnt happened do you know any commands to fix this? i also dont have triggers displaying nor has restarting or re

This sounds like the save corruption bug, you’ll need to restart the chapter by clicking ‘new game’ and choosing the chapter you were on.

no it happens even with the game restarted loading up the chapter via the new game command as well and only happens when i die when i go through the game office complex doesn’t have this bug nor blast pit when i start a new game up
i have an idea just a question is there annything in the bms/saves folder that i shouldn’t delete?

[Umbaman]

Thanks for the help, Fr0z3n [/size]

‘https://forums.blackmesasource.com/index.php/User/45746-Fr0z3n/’
‘https://forums.blackmesasource.com/index.php/User/45746-Fr0z3n/’[/size]You are right about the trigger boxes and the save file problem. What I did was chart a chapter again and just continue playing.
What I did about the missing textures was to delete the game manually. I deleted the game from my PC, then from steam and then I reinstalled it. As far I can tell I had to reset my gaming engine. I guess this happened because I always start the game with -dxlevel 95 in the laucn options of steam and the update did not consider that I had this setting on. That is just a guess tough.

Maybe you have an idea about a lag issue I have:
The game runs with DirectX 9. I can see this in the video settings. However when I start the game without having “-dxlevel 95” in the launch options it lags, although I can see DX9 in the video settings of the game. When I use this code, the game runs fluently. But I need to change my video settings every time I start the game. Do you know how I can get the game running without stuttering, but so that I do not need to change the video settings every time? I am using windows 10, 361.43 is my Nvidia Driver version.

Thank you in advance.

Enjoy Black Mesa, everyone. Have a great new year 2016.

[Slartibarty]

New shotgun in a nutshell.
youtu.be/uUzcDugbiDI

[Crypt]

Stupendous!

[Fr0z3n]

“Don’t forget to Reload, Freeman!”