Hi list,
Today I dug a little deeper into the server browser and "the server you are trying to connect to is using an older version of the game" issues. The dedicated servers were update and verified first, to query the master and game servers I used the small tool I wrote some time ago. These are my test results: - Dedicated server, LAN mode: o Shows up on the LAN tab of Steam's server browser o A double-click on it fires up Source Test instead of the actual mod o Gives the "server is using an older version of the game" error in Source Test as well as the mod itself when the connect command is used o Can be queried using my tool when I add the IP/port manually o Game server reply contains the actual mod directory o Reply says the game version is 1.0.1.0 o The reply contains the AppID 0 instead of 243750 - Dedicated server, Internet mode: o Does not show up on the Internet tab of Steam's server browser o Is registered anyway, as my query tool receives the server's IP/port in the master server reply o Gives the "server is using an older version of the game" when the connect command is used o Can be queried without manually adding IP/port as it's in the master server reply o Game server reply contains the actual mod directory o Reply says the game version is 1.0.1.0 o The reply contains the AppID 0 instead of 243750 - Listen server, LAN mode: o Does not show up on the LAN tab of Steam's server browser o Can be connected to by clients without any problems using the connect command o Cannot be queried by my tool as it just doesn't reply - Listen server, Internet mode: o Does not show up on the Internet tab of Steam's server browser o Is not registered with the master server o Cannot be queried by my tool as it doesn't reply o Can be connected to by LAN and Internet clients without any problems I tested this on Windows and Linux with equal results on both platforms, so it's not a Windows only/Linux only issue - can't test on OSX, but I'm pretty sure it's the same. Has anyone else seen these issues? Right now, even if we were ready to release we'd have to tell the players that they can only run listen servers and have to connect to them manually. And it's quite clear that players won't accept that. >From the test results above I can understand why Steam's server browser would filter out the Internet servers as the AppID in the server reply is not correct. It is correct for Source 2007 and all other games, but for those games (at least mods) servers only show up in the in-game server browser, which isn't correct either (Source 2013 servers also don't show up in the in-game server browser). If anyone else has seen these issues and has found a solution, I'll be more than glad to try that solution. However, I get the impression that this is not fixable in mod code. Jan
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