NEED HELP! Looking for people with in-depth knowledge about Clientside crashes.

[zoryn]

Whenever my server reaches over 40 players, mass clientside crashes happen. It is very tough to troubleshoot because it occurs at random times. I have heard that it's addon confliction, but I cannot figure out which addons conflict because it is so spontaneous. A common error that can be seen in the serverside console is:

[ERROR] addons/m9k-assault-rifles/lua/weapons/bobs_gun_base/shared.lua:431: bad argument #1 to 'Play' (CSoundPatch expected, got string)
Play - [C]:-1
unknown - addons/m9k-assault-rifles/lua/weapons/bobs_gun_base/shared.lua:431
FireBullets - [C]:-1
unknown - addons/m9k-assault-rifles/lua/weapons/bobs_gun_base/shared.lua:619

Players who experience these crashes get:
"LUA Panic Error!"
"Too many indices for index buffer. tell a programmer"
Direct desktop crash without any error messages.

I have tried removing specific addons and tried different methods to fix clientside crashes. As mentioned above, these crashes are so random, my knowledge and effort cannot fix this issue.

[c👌de_g🎷]

Can you post code from the addon that is causing the error? The crash reasons you posted are unrelated and probably caused by addons using high amounts of memory and high poly models/maps.

[zoryn]

Thanks for that suggestion, I decided on deleting playermodels that are over 4MBs.

[TFA]

upload the dumps and post full logs -- minus any personal info ofc

[zoryn]

http://dumps.metastruct.uk.to/dumper.py?dump=hl2_180528_crash_2018_6_28T21_22_32C0.mdmp

http://dumps.metastruct.uk.to/dumper.py?dump=hl2_180528_crash_2018_6_28T19_49_8C0.mdmp

Here’s a few dumps from clientside crashes I personally experienced today.

[zoryn]

Still not solved. Players are crashing client-side in massive groups and is a major issue.

[YunoGasaii]

16412(1576.227938): [DarkRP] 16411(1576.227931): 16410(1576.227798): CRUSHED Sluge killed Astrobly using weapon_spidermods
16409(1575.828226): SWEP:SetWeaponHoldType - ActIndex[ "none" ] isn't set! (defaulting to normal)

This problem might be related to the spider thing

Just remove all addons that nobody needs. It's probably a server where people can be animals and spider man and iron man. That's bullshit anyways.

[zoryn]

Thank you for the advice but nope not the solution. Removed the addons for a day and the problem still consisted.

Also, no need to judge another person's server. I only asked for ideas on fixes regarding client-side crashes. My community and server has success from the "bullshit" that you mentioned.

[YunoGasaii]

Still if you have tons of useless addons you should remove them one by one to see which is causing it..
Might be a conflict.

[zoryn]

UPDATE:
The issue was solved, a big relief on my part.

Here are things I did to stop mass clientside crashes:

Reducing sizes of playermodels on the server. (Keeping playermodels under 3-4MB)
Adding r_drawmodeldecals 0 to autoexec.cfg
Added this added BlinkGC, Widget Disabler, and Bucket's Optimizations.