Issues with our CS:GO servers...

«DN»Lasky® · Fri Nov 25, 2016 7:54 am

Members of [CC]...

We have been trying to get a whole bunch of servers going, and we are starting to get in to Counter-Strike... We have a number of them running but we seem to be having a few issues with CS:GO.

We have managed to get 2 running, but have issues when we try to run anymore. I know they require some sort of "key" to run properly and I have set up those keys. What I am finding is that once the configuration is done and we try and start them, despite the 2 that we have running are going well and we have had no major issues with them so far, we cannot get another 3 running with the error "Cannot connect to server" as the following screenshot shows...

Does anyone know what could be causing this error and how to fix it?

Chalkie · Fri Nov 25, 2016 12:01 pm

Okay firstly this link will help: http://bfy.tw/8uNS

The best way to do this is have the files you downloaded as a base install,

Example

Downloaded csgo file name base-install

make folder on c drive name it my server, Make folders in that with say server 1 server2 etc etc, then copy the csgo files into server1 folder server2 etc etc

There you use a batch file to run them

@echo off
cls
echo Protecting srcds from crashes...
echo If you want to close srcds and this script, close the srcds window and type Y depending on your language followed by Enter.
title srcds.com Watchdog
:srcds
echo (%time%) srcds started.
start /wait srcds.exe srcds -game csgo -console -usercon +game_type 0 +game_mode 1 -maxplayers_override 12 +exec classic_competitive.cfg -ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -port 27015 -tickrate 128 +host_workshop_collection 125499818 +workshop_start_map 125488374 -authkey D528F5593E40244CB12FAEB17BADxxxx
echo (%time%) WARNING: srcds closed or crashed, restarting.
goto srcds

That command line is for competitive mode and you need to get you own AUTH Key

This command line below can be used for casual mode

srcds.exe srcds -game csgo -console -usercon +game_type 0 +game_mode 0 -maxplayers_override 16 +exec classic_casual.cfg +mapgroup mg_csgo +map de_dust2 -ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -port 27015 -tickrate 128

Hope this helps.

-Chalkie

«DN»Lasky® · Fri Nov 25, 2016 3:33 pm

Hello Chalkie, thanks for your potential solution. Let me pass this to our server manager to give it a try. I will let you know if it works. Thanks again.

«DN»Lasky® · Fri Nov 25, 2016 3:41 pm

#doublepost...

As a side note, we are trying to keep our server installs separate so that it makes administering them much easier, is this not possible?

Chalkie · Sat Nov 26, 2016 12:15 am

They are separate, each server has its own folder.

«DN»Lasky® · Sat Nov 26, 2016 3:07 am

That's how I have it set up, but I keep getting the error above.

In simple terms, I am running them in the same way that you have to run Halo servers, on folder, a complete install. I cannot see what is wrong with them.

Chalkie · Sat Nov 26, 2016 5:31 am

Are you using the correct app id?

«DN»Lasky® · Sat Nov 26, 2016 6:29 am

The one from STEAMCMD? Yes. I believe it was 730 or 740.

«DN»Lasky® · Sun Nov 27, 2016 6:24 pm

UPDATE*

We have tried the suggestion above Chalkie, no joy, is there something else you can think of?

«DN»Lasky® · Thu Dec 08, 2016 3:50 pm

Chalkie... an update for you...

We have now managed to get 5 servers running... however...

We are having trouble getting it joinable. We have tried everything we can find and we cannot get them working propperly.

They are fully up to date and we have got the configs right as far as we can tell. I honestly do not know what is either missing or what we are doing wrong. Is there any way that you can help us or anyone else who knows CS:GO servers well?

«DN»Lasky® · Thu Dec 08, 2016 4:23 pm

A side note: we are also running CS:S and CS 1.6 servers on there as well.

Chalkie · Thu Dec 08, 2016 4:53 pm

Bit of a silly question but are all ports open on the server?

-Chalkie

«DN»Lasky® · Thu Dec 08, 2016 5:10 pm

As far as I am ware they are. I can add them to my favorites list but I canoot join them. I added you to steam to try and get a quicker solution, can we talk there please?

«DN»Lasky® · Sun Dec 18, 2016 10:03 pm

Chalkie, can I get some assistance please?

Chalkie · Mon Dec 19, 2016 1:21 am

oops, sorry completely forgot about this post....

I will try and recreate this and see what happens my end.

What operating system are you using?

«DN»Lasky® · Mon Dec 19, 2016 6:18 am

Server 2008 R2

«DN»Lasky® · Mon Dec 19, 2016 6:25 am

To be clear... servers are online but nobody can join them...

Chalkie · Mon Dec 19, 2016 7:13 am

Okay installing windows 2008 onto a vm, luckily I had a spare license from an old server.

How many servers are you trying to run? I will experiment with 4 servers and see what results I get.

«DN»Lasky® · Mon Dec 19, 2016 9:56 am

Trying to run 5 for now. But if you check our servers page, we're not just running CS:GO. We have 140 servers in total.

If I am allowed, our servers page is located at this link

Chalkie · Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:02 am

All 140 off the same server?

Chalkie · Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:06 am

Oh My... No Wonder you are having problems, you do realize that windows has a connection limit, trying to operate that many connections on that many ports is going to give you issues with a single server configuration.

I have just been through, you are running over 1500 incoming connections.

«DN»Lasky® · Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:07 am

No. Only 5 are CS:GO. Look at that page. They are near the bottom. Most of our servers are Halo: CE. We have others including Call of Duty, Minecraft and more.

«DN»Lasky® · Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:08 am

Chalkie wrote:Oh My... No Wonder you are having problems, you do realize that windows has a connection limit, trying to operate that many connections on that many ports is going to give you issues with a single server configuration.

I have just been through, you are running over 1500 incoming connections.

The server can handle it. It is literally just the CS:GO servers we are having trouble with...

«DN»Lasky® · Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:11 am

Also... when we get the CS:GO servers working, it cuts off only a few of the other CS servers.... something we cannot work out.

Chalkie · Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:12 am

Well, although they are not ranked, I have successfully loaded 10 servers on my vm, each server connectable, have you tried turning off one of the ones you can connect to and then trying one of the others to see if it is a connection limit issue?

Mon Dec 19, 2016 2:09 pm

This is a silly idea but something worth checking perhaps...

Steam, if it bans your server IP address, won't let your servers work. To check for an IP ban, copy the URL below and enter your server's IP address and port number in the appropriate slot at the end.

Code: Select all

http&#58;//api.steampowered.com/ISteamApps/GetServersAtAddress/v0001?addr=IP&#58;PORT

Most likely this isn't your issue... however if you are having this issue then it would explain a lot of things.

«DN»Lasky® · Mon Dec 19, 2016 2:49 pm

gt24,

when I run it through what you suggest above, I get this in return...

{
"response": {
"success": true,
"servers": [

]

}
}

Mon Dec 19, 2016 3:26 pm

IP address is fine.

«DN»Lasky® · Mon Dec 19, 2016 7:51 pm

That's what I thought. I have no idea what's up with them....

«DN»Lasky® · Tue Jan 03, 2017 2:54 am

A note for both Chalkie and gt24 when and if they see this post...

We have still not been able to work out whats going on, I am officially stumped, and have no idea what to do. Our servers are not likely to total over 1500 connections. Even if it did, we seem to be well within the limit that Chalkie has specified... INFO

This would leave me and our server guy at a loss for any ideas to explain why we cannot get the servers working properly. I do have a suggestion, perhaps Chalkie could connect to our dedicated server via teamviewer so he can do some checks on his end to make sure that they are correctly configured. I am sure they are, but Chalkie undoubtedly knows more about these things than we do. If it was Halo servers, we would not have a problem as even I know how to configure them. We have also managed to get 5 CoD 4 and 5 CoD 5 servers running, all working and functional, although the CoD 5 servers keep randomly shutting down without warning for some reason, even that has baffled me as well.