What Is Overflow And Is There Anyway To Stop It?

UnderDOG

<div class="IPBDescription">or at least make it less common?</div> It seems almost every time i get near 33 res as a skulk, or on the voogru servers when i try to give res, i overflow? what is this?

Xzilen

Basically its your excess sources that you would be getting to max your cap, going to the gorge instead (which is a good thing if you want to speed things along)

UnderDOG

no no no, not that overflow, that ones good, the other one

when i quit you out of the server saying "UnderDOG overflowed"

Shadowics

(EDIT : oops, too slow posting)

I wouldn't trust the Voogru severs to not have bugs with all the changes they've made, I never play on them personally.

That sounds like it could be a problem with your computer. Does it happen on any server you play on? how much RAM do you have?

UnderDOG

i was just giving the voogru servers as an example, it happens to me on ALL other servers whenever i try to boiuld up res

Catpoker

needs to go into tech support


but if i were you, i would try a re-download and a re-install

UnderDOG

ok ive heard of a buch of other people with this problem also, thought it was common

DasElitest

he means cl_overflow packet flush correct?

well if its that then its your internet, its either not recieving packets fast enough or not sending them fast enough so it flushs them all out and trys again. if your running a broadband connection open your console and type : rate 9000, if your running a 56k connection type: rate 3000 this may or may not be your problem im not sure, i dont know too much about netcode settings, but that should help with your ping.

UnderDOG

o, and ive NEVER had it happen on marines, it only happens when my res count is chaning in some way as aliens

Catpoker

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Rion

I know they've got plenty of threads about it on the voogru boards.. that's how I fixed my comp.

UnderDOG

ok yeah ill check on voogru boards, other people have said the havbe been quit out by it, and i have a gig of ddr ram

DoADrunkMonkey

yea, i seen that type of overflowing thing, i don`t quite know what it is, my guess is something is getting fcuked along the connection eith something like getting too much junk data in/out or some type of packet loss.

i highly doubt a re-downloaded or re-install of NS would fix it due to all the files of NS are working right, so thus replaceing them wont do jack.

try what DasElitest said.

Jabba_The_Hunt

Although its not entirely a voogru problem it does seem to happen more often on his otherwise excellent servers.

Align

I wonder if the -heapsize shortcut command would help here?

Ello

It's some sort of problem with the Giveres plugin. Whenever you try to give res to the gorge by pressing use on him you exit the game with the message " "yournamehere" Overflowed."
It's the same with all servers with the plugin though it only happens to certain people (me included).