Server Crashing with playerskins

[IG-PhantomX]

I had the playerskins plugin on multiple servers and have slowly had to remove it from each server because it's causing crashes.

We have a precacher (S_Downloader), but despite that, we are getting a pre-cache error in the server console on these crashes. Anyone have info to fix this?

[azalty]

I have a modified S Downloader that fixes this, but yea it could be useful to know why it doesn't do its job properly

I'll try to upload it this evening (currently morning for me)

[azalty]

try using sv_forcepreload 1
S_Downloader_1.1.3.00_azalty.zip

[IG-PhantomX]

Thank you for sharing that. I put it on the servers and haven't experienced any crashes since then. I do still have an infrequent issue with players not seeing all skins.

Also, I added sv_forcepreload 1 to server.cfg but the servers are still set to 0. Do you have suggestions on where to look since that variable is being overridden somewhere?

[azalty]

Ensure that you don't run the -nopreload srcds launch parameter

Try putting it in gamemode_X_server.cfg, should be gamemode_casual_server.cfg if you didn't modify the game mode settings.

Else, you can add the -preload launch parameter to srcds and it should work