Changing Maximum Player Count

NOTE: As of February 5, 2008, this only applies to the HL2DM OB (Orange Box) source code.

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Problem:

• You are unable to create a server with more than 16 players.

Cause:

• For whatever reason, Valve decided to limit the maximum amount of players to 16 by altering the way maxplayers works. Fortunately, this is easy to fix.

Solution:

• Open hl2mp_gameinterface.cpp and make the following changes:

REPLACE THIS:

void CServerGameClients::GetPlayerLimits( int& minplayers, int& maxplayers, int &defaultMaxPlayers ) const
{
	minplayers = defaultMaxPlayers = 2; 
	maxplayers = 16;
}

WITH THIS:

void CServerGameClients::GetPlayerLimits( int& minplayers, int& maxplayers, int &defaultMaxPlayers ) const
{
	minplayers = defaultMaxPlayers = 2; 
	maxplayers = 32;
}

Now you can have up to 32 players on your server at any given time instead of 16. Please do not try to set maxplayers to a value higher than 32. It's experimental, and after exceeding 32 players, a server would begin to become unstable.