SDK Known Issues List

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This page contains the list of current known issues in the SDK

Server: weapon_citizensuitcase Assert on startup

Workaround: Install copy of the SP SDK, then copy the scripts/ directory over


Server: Some bullet weapons set to do 0 damage.

Workaround: Need to edit their AddAmmoType which are strangely set to 0 for some reason.


Server: Some projectile weapons set to do 0 damage.

Workaround: Need to edit their source files and set a damage.


Client: --- Missing Vgui material vgui/steam/games/icon_cz

Workaround: Manually extract files from GCF and copy them into your mod directory? Haven't tried this. There must be a better way.


Server: The crossbow causes an assertion failure.

Workaround: Comment out ai_activity.cpp line 53. This doesn't appear to be something that can be fixed in code?


Server? Client?: RL explosion invisible, per http://www.chatbear.com/board.plm?a=viewthread&t=970,1107153392,30132&id=786504&b=4991&v=flatold

Workaround: No known workaround.


util.cpp (531) : Assertion Failed: !"UTIL_GetLocalPlayer"

Workaround: See the patch below.


Assert !"UTIL_GetLocalPlayer" when using combine ball

Workaround: See the patch below.


CreateEvent: event 'break_prop' not registered

Significance and fix both unknown


HL2.exe mysteriously segfaults if you forget to put the client.dll and server.dll in your mod's bin directory

Workaround: Don't do that.


If you leave a server online on a certain map for roughly 12-24 hours straight, it begins using 100% CPU. Possibly a core srcds.exe bug, not an SDK bug?

I suppose there could be some array or something inside the HL2 core that grows over time, and must be iterated over each frame?

I haven't run the long-running map scenario in a long time. The alpha server for my mod is full most of the day and players frag out so the map is always changing.

That said, I seem to recall that the move from the usual 5% cpu to 100% cpu was fairly drastic and immediate. I never saw an intermediate stage where the server used 25% cpu or 50% cpu etc. I would expect to see those intermediate levels if it was a memory leak.

Workaround: Ensure you have mp_timelimit set to something nonzero, but less than 12 hours or so.


Negative entitygroundcontact crash

Workaround: See patch below


Doing a 360 quickly with the Stun Baton as your active weapon causes the screen to flash white

Fix unknown