Yeah - great job...that was a tough one.

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 3:17 AM, Mike Vail <[email protected]> wrote:

> Great job isolating this Peter. Thanks so much for sharing. I hope Valve
> fixes it ASAP!
>
> Take care...
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Peter Jerde <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On our Windows dedicated TF2 servers (including a freshly installed
>> virgin copy with no addons) we noticed that since the last update, anybody
>> wielding the Ap Sap causes server lag to the entire server every time
>> Wheatley speaks.
>>
>> The easiest way to demonstrate it is with the Ap-Sap-wielding spy to
>> suicide with kill in console. Reliably, there's a delay of from 1 second to
>> up to 5 seconds or more between issuing the kill command and when the death
>> actually occurs. During this time the whole server feels "lag" or
>> rubberbanding, and net_graph 3 shows that all activity from the server
>> halts briefly.
>>
>> We guessed that it might have something to do with the change from .wav
>> files to .mp3 for those voice lines. For giggles, I uploaded the three
>> tf2_sound_vo_english_00x.vpk files from my client up to the /tf directory
>> on the server. THAT FIXED IT! I cannot reproduce the issue with those three
>> vpk files installed.
>>
>> Weird bug. Easy enough workaround. Thought you'd all like to know and
>> curious if anyone can confirm or if we're just lucky when it comes to weird
>> bugs.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>>  - Peter
>>
>>
>>
>>
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