I am having problems connecting to a VAC secured Synergy server

[-$ilver-]

Tonight I tried to play a game of Synergy for HL2 as I have almost every night recently. I have had no problems connecting to any servers until tonight when it says I would have to restart my game or play in insecure mode or something. I thought that was a bit odd, but I never really paid attention before if the servers I had been playing on were VAC protected or not. Half the time I just create my own server and allow others to join. I tried going back to take a screen shot of it a little later and there are currently no other servers with VAC protection so I can not give an accurate quote on it. However I did restart Synergy and then Steam and when the server was still up I was still having the same problems.

Coincidentally I am also being kicked/banned left and right from the original Counter Strike game and that has never happened before either. One server told me this as I was disconnected-

The last one I tried gave me this message- {Disconnected

You have been disconnected from the server. Reason: Kicked : “Trampa detectada AIM[HL1]”}

Now I have never willingly or knowingly downloaded any cheats EVER. All I have ever done was download mods for both HL1 and HL2 from the Mod Data Base and also Workshop subscriptions for both this game and Gary's Mod.

I am not sure if the Counter Strike bans has any correlation to Synergy, but any help would be appreciated as I want to rectify the situation and get what ever I supposedly have that is bad on my system off and not get it again. Thank you.

[Coach]

cs bans are not affecting this. researching on a search engine is your best bet.

[-$ilver-]

Well I came here because this is also a Synergy problem. Why is it telling me to restart out of insecure mode on a VAC protected Synergy server? That has not happened before, although admittedly I am new to Synergy so maybe I have never tried to play on a VAC protected server before, but I see no reason why I should not be able too. And having difficulties on the same night with Counter Strike would to me seem like a linked problem. I do not think I have received a VAC ban thankfully, as it tells you straight up before you can join a server that you are not allowed or so says it's FAQ. With this it is telling me some thing else.

[Jack Schitt]

I'm not giving you Schitt, Silver. Just continuing to try to help here.
As you know Synergy is a 3rd party mod and I'm sure you know what it is and does.
We tried a bunch of things last night, I know. Could it be that admins are just kicking you because they don't want someone they don't know on their server? I believe that's a possibility. That's why I asked you to accept a friend request so I can host a game for you to join to test that idea out, see if you can stay connected.

I was able to play for 20 minutes last night without any issues. I was not thrown out or anything. I think you probably have already tried to re-install so something else is going on and it may be a really simple problem, or it may be what I just said that maybe the host is giving you the boot for personal reasons like they don't want people on there they don't know.

None of the servers for Synergy that show up for me are VAC secured.

[Jack Schitt]

I'm beginning to think something's really F'd up with your account or something. I cancelled my friend invite to resend it and now it's erroring. Maybe you should contact steam support and see what's up with all this.

[-$ilver-]

I have not seen a VAC secured server since that one night either, although again before all this I never really paid attention. But then again until recently I had my filters to show not full, not password protected and had at least someone on. I know you can be kicked from a server by a vote, but it would not even let me in it telling me that message of insecure.

I kind of thought posting in the help section was asking Steam and or the community for support, but I guess I will inquire further. Thank you for your assistance though.

[Jack Schitt]

This is community. I think your issue needs official Steam support which you can reach through 'Help' in the client menu. Best of luck!

[-$ilver-]

Thank you I am in the process of contacting them now.

[Jack Schitt]

I believe it's worth trying to join a game I host. From the errors you posted I really think it's an admin kicking you. They can kick for any reason, and some people have really dumb reasoning. I don't think it's the game but that "fake client" thing has me baffled.

[-$ilver-]

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

I believe it's worth trying to join a game I host. From the errors you posted I really think it's an admin kicking you. They can kick for any reason, and some people have really dumb reasoning. I don't think it's the game but that "fake client" thing has me baffled.

I would have to download Synergy again for that to work and I just submitted my request to Steam. I know when I am vote kicked from a server, but the VAC server was just not letting me in at all and it was not password protected that I can remember. Even still if it had been that message it gave me should of been something else I would assume. Perhaps it was running a different version I do not know. Not all of my Workshop items would seem to load properly for Synergy so I was told to do a few things with my account. After changing back is when I first had the problem, if not that day than the next or after that. But that was also right around the time of downloading collections of subscriptions for Gary's Mod...

I also know Counter Strike servers can ban for any reason as well, but if I do not even have the time to team kill, block doors, nade spawn or make an idiot of myself in chat, (Which I would never do anyway.) where literally I do not even have time to buy any weapons and I am instantly kicked time and again from multiple servers back to back and I have never had this problem before, something does not sound right.

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by -$ilver-:

Not all of my Workshop items would seem to load properly for Synergy so I was told to do a few things with my account. After changing back is when I first had the problem

What was changed? Are you positive you got everything changed back to default?

[-$ilver-]

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

Originally posted by -$ilver-:

Not all of my Workshop items would seem to load properly for Synergy so I was told to do a few things with my account. After changing back is when I first had the problem

What was changed? Are you positive you got everything changed back to default?

Originally posted by Balimbanana:

For the workshop stuff, you could try either switching to the development beta, starting up Synergy, then closing and resetting to the current version of Synergy. It will download the new workshop system which fixes *most* of those problems. Or if it still doesn't work you could try:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/17520/discussions/0/364041776189504123/

That did not work, as in doing the development branch, starting Synergy and then doing version 56.15 Synergy 15.7. The same thing is occurring and I took a look at the other thread, but it talks about moving files around and what not. May need to wait for an official fix even though the dev said they were working on it back in June 2016...


quote=Balimbanana;1733213724900408897]You might have to go straight from development branch, starting up Synergy, then switching back to "None" which is version 56.16. Going to 56.15 or 15.7 may remove what switching to the development branch added.

Edit: Also, does the viewmodel work in the development branch? [/quote]

Going back and forth from Development (Was I suppose to start a game or just get to the main Synergy menu?) straight to Opt Out did not work either, I have my WW2 looking grenades and my AK-47 and the Combine look like Terminators, but both my pistol and my SMG are stock from HL2. Also when in the title menu in Opt Out I have the viewmodel tab and I can see an empty box where a viewable model should be, but is not. When playing the actual game is when I can view what models to choose. When briefly in the development mode, the option to view model was there, but the box it self was completely one solid color, as in there was not meant to be a real option to view to begin with.

[-$ilver-]

Originally posted by -$ilver-:

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

What was changed? Are you positive you got everything changed back to default?

Originally posted by Balimbanana:

For the workshop stuff, you could try either switching to the development beta, starting up Synergy, then closing and resetting to the current version of Synergy. It will download the new workshop system which fixes *most* of those problems. Or if it still doesn't work you could try:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/17520/discussions/0/364041776189504123/

That did not work, as in doing the development branch, starting Synergy and then doing version 56.15 Synergy 15.7. The same thing is occurring and I took a look at the other thread, but it talks about moving files around and what not. May need to wait for an official fix even though the dev said they were working on it back in June 2016...

Originally posted by Balimbanana:

You might have to go straight from development branch, starting up Synergy, then switching back to "None" which is version 56.16. Going to 56.15 or 15.7 may remove what switching to the development branch added.

Edit: Also, does the viewmodel work in the development branch?

Going back and forth from Development (Was I suppose to start a game or just get to the main Synergy menu?) straight to Opt Out did not work either, I have my WW2 looking grenades and my AK-47 and the Combine look like Terminators, but both my pistol and my SMG are stock from HL2. Also when in the title menu in Opt Out I have the viewmodel tab and I can see an empty box where a viewable model should be, but is not. When playing the actual game is when I can view what models to choose. When briefly in the development mode, the option to view model was there, but the box it self was completely one solid color, as in there was not meant to be a real option to view to begin with.

As far as I can remember and I am 99% sure of this, I had went back to the way it was originally before all the mess ensued, which is what ever the default was. Since I had not played CS in a while I am not sure what triggered the bans from them now.

[Jack Schitt]

Have you checked to see that the workshop folder that post talks about has truly been deleted and the custom folder is completely empty? I'll continue to do what I can with this until official support gets back to you. Hopefully we can win the race getting it fixed before they do haha

[-$ilver-]

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

Have you checked to see that the workshop folder that post talks about has truly been deleted and the custom folder is completely empty? I'll continue to do what I can with this until official support gets back to you. Hopefully we can win the race getting it fixed before they do haha

Well I unsubscribed. I am not really sure how else to check for it. And I uninstalled both Synergy and Garry's Mod and only recently tried to install Garry's Mod again as I want to work on some comics. But it tried to download close to 155 subscriptions and stalled my system trying to find the last three strangely enough, so I had to shut my computer down and restart it. I did not know I had that many subs to begin with. I am probably just going to start deleting all my subs and then hand picking them very carefully.

Steam Support is working with me now and we try to do something it seems once a day. I do not want to try anything else while they are working on the issue in case one thing hinders the other, although I do appreciate all your time and effort as well.

If you would like to "play" a game of something we certainly can in the mean time. Hopefully this all gets corrected and I can reapply for the servers that did ban me. Apparently some are linked if it is owned by the same people so I can not even try some of the more popular ones.

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by -$ilver-:

Well I unsubscribed. I am not really sure how else to check for it.

Check the folders on your computer. Uninstallers don't always delete absolutely everything. Sometimes things are left behind, especially downloaded content and saved games. They generally only uninstall/delete the core game files and leave everything else there.

Originally posted by -$ilver-:

Steam Support is working with me now and we try to do something it seems once a day. I do not want to try anything else while they are working on the issue in case one thing hinders the other, although I do appreciate all your time and effort as well.

Good idea! It won't to check for the workshop and custom folder to see if they're still there, and have anything in them. Might be best that if they do still have content in them to leave them be and include that in your next conversation with support or write an update to the ticket to inform them there's stuff there. They're likely going to agree that if there is anything there it should be deleted to eliminate them being part of the problem.

Originally posted by -$ilver-:

If you would like to "play" a game of something we certainly can in the mean time. Hopefully this all gets corrected and I can reapply for the servers that did ban me. Apparently some are linked if it is owned by the same people so I can not even try some of the more popular ones.

If you have Synergy installed try creating your own server and see if it stays running. That'll be some fun if it works. Or we can compare our libraries and see what games we have in common.

To appeal the bans you'll have to find out how to contact the admin. If they have a website that's probably where you'll have to go to address it with them and ask for the ban to be lifted.