sterile cave
When players load into the server, we use workshop.Lua. They install the addons up until 103/X amount of addons, and then it gets stuck as shown by screenshot below.
This has never happened before and seems to be so weird. I’ve tried looking at the ID it gets stuck on, when I remove it, a new random id gets stuck but it’s on the same 103.
unkempt cliff
I think this is widespread. I'm having a similar issue. Lots of players in-game are having errors to the point they're having to delete their cache to fix it.
unkempt cliff
Definitely seems like something happened last night during the Steam maintenance. It screwed up workshop downloads.
snow arch
same here
any solution on the meantime until they decide to fix this?
sacred mural
On my server there is no problem with the load screen but with players having missing textures out of nowhere. I guess both problems have a connection.
The problem started occuring yesterday. Players don't download content from the workshop anymore (using resource.AddWorkshop) and need to install them manually.
unkempt cliff
The only solution I've found is players have to delete the cache each time before launching gmod unfortunately
(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\cache
Quite frustrating so hope it's resolved soon. The average player has no clue about this
sacred mural
I am working on a solution today (hopefully)
sterile cave
I am working on a solution today (hopefully)
please update us if you do!
sterile cave
The only solution I've found is players have to delete the cache each time befor...
thats really annoying but if its a solution thats better than nothing
sacred mural
please update us if you do!
I will
sterile cave
the deleting cache folder thing seemed to work
unkempt cliff
Yeah not much we can do rn other than that
If you have a diff fix let us know samuel.
I'm not sure why more people aren't complaining about this because it's definitely widespread
sacred mural
I cannot reproduce the error. I have no problems on my Steam deck. On my computer I had problems and fixed them by deleting the cache folder. For others it does not help and for others it helps to delete the cache folder.
This is bs
unkempt cliff
Yeah it's very weird. It's only affecting certain add-ons too not all of them. Weirdest thing ever.
rotund bolt
the deleting cache folder thing seemed to work
its only a temporary fix unfortunately, this originally happened a few months back on a server i help run, after 201 addons had loaded via our resource.lua the 202nd would get stuck and everything after it.
We raised an issue on the facepunch github with evidence of it happening but in the last few days the issues gone from 201 to 101, so not much can be done until they get a fix out (but it seems to be a steam issue not gmod)
sterile cave
What other alternatives can we use then to get content to players
Because it’s had a detrimental affect
rotund bolt
the only way ive found of genuinely resolving it is to repack loads of your servers addons to get your addon list below the cap before it gets stuck (and yes i realise you shouldnt be repacking other authors content, but i had a server with 260 addons mounted and theres no way i was removing nearly 2/3rds of the content until this is fixed)
If you do decide to go my above route, id suggest you at least save a copy of your resource.lua before repacking so once the actual issue is fixed you can mount the original addons straight away
sterile cave
the only way ive found of genuinely resolving it is to repack loads of your serv...
Exactly what I’ve done hahahaa
I’ve made a HUGE content pack and im still above the 101 limit
And it also seems like there are some issues with the pack as in some people still do not see textures
I think making several 1gb ones should work tho, ill work on it later
rotund bolt
do you mean you added the addons into a content pack or you downloaded them all individually, put them into a big folder, then reuploaded them to the workshop? because i did the latter of the two haha
sterile cave
I did the latter yes 🤣
Brought it from 153 to 109 addons
It’s so much effort
Took hours
rotund bolt
ahh right we are on the same page then haha, yeah its a fucking ballache
rotund bolt
yeah only way round so far, but im genuinely concerned that it went from 201 to 101, i mean if it halves again to 50 im fucked
rotund bolt
from 260 to 185 took me about 4 hours. then i got some bottom bitches to do the 185 to the 90 we have just managed to get too haha
sterile cave
Oh my god 💀
rotund bolt
fuck knows how long it took them, i went bed 😂
sterile cave
At least I’m on 109 now so I only need to pack about 10-15 addons to stay well below the limit
Wish me luck 😏
umbral cove
took me about 3 hours to go from the 185 to 90 ish
sterile cave
For some reason some content just doesn’t work from the pack tho idk why
Maybe I’ve copied it across wrong
unkempt cliff
There needs to be a fix for this already.
sterile cave
ye...
loud onyx
For some reason some content just doesn’t work from the pack tho idk why
Try and keep content packs under a gb each (split them), I personally had issues with much larger ones not loading properly and missing "parts" in the past, it may be related if you compiled them together recently
Outside of that, I've not had any steam issues/real reports from players on my servers timing out requesting files from steam workshop (via both resource.addworkshop and game.mountgma) so let's hope that is solved already
sterile cave
Try and keep content packs under a gb each (split them), I personally had issues...
ah ok ty for the advice
cerulean relic
having the same issue
almost always getting stuck on 101/167 while it tries to retrieve a workshop addon then eventually just skips the rest of the addons and moves on to the map, and if i try to remove the addon it gets stuck on, it just gets stuck on a different addon
i've noticed that although workshopDL says it downloads all the addons again if you clear your cache, only half or less of the addons it says it has downloaded are actually in the workshop cache as gma's (unless thats normal)
what i've tried so far:
mighty raptor
removing all my addons
verifying files
running the gmod FactoryReset.bat
removing appworkshop_4000
clean reinstalling gmod
clean reinstalling steam```
also, here are a few snippets from console.log, the first 2 errors happen all of the time for each addon that it cant load, the last one only happens sometimes
```WorkshopDL: Took too long to get item info for (addon id here)!
WorkshopDL: There is no file to mount for '(addon id here)'!
WorkshopDL: GetItemInfo expected one item, got 0```To me this looks like some ratelimit/was reduced on steam end, so you can only have 100 addons now instead of 200. Times match with last Tuesdays maintenance. I am unaffected and never noticed because I use 30~ content packs/addons (my stuff is mostly self made)
Reinstalling anything isn't going to change that, the limit is clearly 100 right now, I've raised awareness though
sterile cave
Ye it’s weird I’ve made multiple packs to split content but I’m still having issues where players don’t see the textures on some packs
They’re about 200-900MB in size each
loud onyx
Ye it’s weird I’ve made multiple packs to split content but I’m still having iss...
what branch are those players on? mainbranch/32bit or x86/64 bit? 32 bit applications can only utilise 3.192gb of ram so it could be a factor
loud onyx
Ah ok could be a factor easily
the max size i have is 497mb (after compression/stuffing into a gma) per workshop upload, multiple of these, perhaps it should be split lower
sterile cave
Is there anyway I can compress before I can upload to workshop
loud onyx
it does it inline/as you upload
loud onyx
the new ratelimit really doesn't help you, it exasperated this issue imo
sterile cave
It’s like the 8th pack I made doesn’t load at all, no one sees anything from it
Well from what I’ve seen
Only gotten 3-4 people tell me this but could easily be everyone else as they stated
loud onyx
from what i see here; new ratelimit issues are solved in the dev branch already; https://github.com/Facepunch/garrysmod-issues/issues/5409
that update likely won't be coming to 64bit though as that has been discontinued with the build servers gone
loud onyx
what can we do then
I am just a discord janitor/I don't work for fp so my info is as good as yours, though my guess is that for 64bit the limit will likely be 100 addons then, whenever the update is out (on dev already) that mainbranch will go back to normal/200(or perhaps not have a limit at all, depending on how rubat did it), file size issues that you seem to have likely dont apply to x86-64/64bit- kinda making the branches polar opposites.
I think the best option is to shrink/split further the large packs until they load, and avoid any duplicate files across them- 500mb each never failed for me, my content is around 5gb
sterile cave
right ok
it takes a while and is such a hassle, and im the only one working on it too 🤣
ill get to it later, ty for your help
loud onyx
No worries, it is a pain depending on how much you have, I would also keep things like model dependancies together in the same content pack, like mdl/phy/vvds from the same folder, I don't think it matters at all for materials
sterile cave
right ok cheers!!
loud onyx
I would still suggest seeing what the results are after the next steam maintenance, see if the limit reverts- if you don't want to have to repack other people's addons
sterile cave
Oh yeah definitely gonna see what happens after next maintenance, have the old workshop.lua archived anyway so it’ll be a quick swap
loud onyx
let me know if you succeed to load more than 100 or 200 now, after testing today i can ask for 500 from steam before ratelimits
sterile cave
yes, the issue seems to have been fixed, at least for now
loud onyx
Hopefully someone with more than 200 can test this too, but this is great news
cerulean relic
interesting, it doesnt seem to be fixed for me
with a clean cache it downloaded to around 155/167 addons then skips the rest, but as soon as i rejoin it gets to 101/167 before it skips the rest
while on the dev branch with a clean cache it gets to 111/167 before it says retrieving workshop file details and when it takes too long instead of skipping all the rest of the addons it will continue to attempt to retrieve workshop file details and take too long for each addon
ill probably just end up making a handful of content packs it the problem still persists by next weeks maintenance
manic hearth
Issue still exists for our server aswell. Gets to 101 and skips the rest.
rotund bolt
from what i see here; new ratelimit issues are solved in the dev branch already;...
yeah it was one of the devs on the server im on that opened that issue, but that was when it was limiting us to 200, before it dropped to 100.
seems the issues still there
loud onyx
interesting, it doesnt seem to be fixed for me
with a clean cache it downloaded ...
If the ratelimit was at 500 like I tested it to be last night you wouldn't need to test dev branch at all as its steam side
I want this issue fixed on steams end so 64bit doesn't have any more limitations over mainbranch as it won't be updated, dev branch means nothing to me personally, I will check again later
loud onyx
that really sucks, it was 500 last night, and now it is 100 again, raising awareness to steam AGAIN
loud onyx
it was 500 before, it can be 500 again, i will keep you guys updated anyway
unkempt cliff
Ugh. SO frustrating they gotta make everything so complicated. Hopefully this isn't intentional
sterile cave
hoary tree
any update??
sterile cave
hardy fog
Hello gmoders,
With the recent gmod update.
They said "Reworked how GetItemInfo timeout works for WorkshopDL.
Just wondering if other people are having issues still.
I'm on dev and then chromium and still have the addons failing to mount
loud onyx
Yes, that makes zero difference for what I care about. Only mainbranch gmod(via dev) gets updates now, burying the rest in technical issues which is clearly shit imo
Dont use chromium branch, it doesn't have those fixes. If you read the branch it says its outdated too and to use x86-64, which is abandoned-
64bit doesn't have them either as its abandoned (build servers have magically disappeared). You are likely locked to 100 for those now
I didn't get much more info than "well look into it next time we deploy" from steam which was last week
hardy thistle
Yes, that makes zero difference for what I care about. Only mainbranch gmod(via ...
I still don't understand why the 64x-bit isn't the focus though. Most people nowadays use a 64-bit computer
Not only does it allow more performance when it comes to addons, loading times etc, the game could take advantage of the features 64-bit offers
cerulean relic
the issue appears to be fixed for me now, able to download all 167 addons from my server through workshopDL
anyone else able to confirm its fixed for them?
sterile cave
the issue appears to be fixed for me now, able to download all 167 addons from m...
yep seems to be fixed now
not getting my hopes up, happened before when @loud onyx let me know then broke the day after
loud onyx
I keep asking, whether the limit stays or reverts to lower we shall see again as we go forward
If its fixed in steam end then 64bit doesn't have any additional limitations as its abandoned, scroll up for info on that
loud onyx
Not only does it allow more performance when it comes to addons, loading times e...
🤷 go ask garry why he dropped the build servers for gmod 64bit while they're working on s&box
loud onyx
yep seems to be fixed now
Can you do me a quick test? Run this lua on yourself
steamworks.FileInfo( 2777841289, function( result )
print(i.." "..CurTime())
end)
end
``` it'll show the ratelimit whereever it delays, I'll check it out when I'm on pcYup, it's at 500+ again, better stay this way 😄
sterile cave
sterile cave
Issue is back
loud onyx
If so then they fucked it up again during maintenance last night, whatever, I asked enough times