"Disconnect: Buffer overflow in net message"

[Rahkis]

I was enjoying my time with CS:S when I got the message mentioned. Should I be worried? Was I attacked by a hacker or did the server simply crap itself?

[GrO]

1) Where you the only one dropped from the server?

2) What OS you run and how much RAM is installed? (The overflow usually happens due to a lack of RAM or the disk space).

3) Are you able to tell what was the situation it happened in, and if the server runs some heavy plugins like 'rpg'?

4) What was the map while it happened? (If it was some new fancy custom map so it could be the maps' fault if it's not properly optimized).

[Rahkis]

Originally posted by GrO:

1) Where you the only one dropped from the server?

2) What OS you run and how much RAM is installed? (The overflow usually happens due to a lack of RAM or the disk space).

3) Are you able to tell what was the situation it happened in, and if the server runs some heavy plugins like 'rpg'?

4) What was the map while it happened? (If it was some new fancy custom map so it could be the maps' fault if it's not properly optimized).

1. I don't think so
2. I'm running Windows 10 with 8GB of RAM
3. The server is only running basic plugins like stats rank and so on. The overload happened right after I bought guns and started moving. The game lagged a bit then it disconnected. The server only had a few players playing.
4. The map was a small custom map which ran just fine

[GrO]

Originally posted by RahkaMies:

Originally posted by GrO:

1) Where you the only one dropped from the server?

2) What OS you run and how much RAM is installed? (The overflow usually happens due to a lack of RAM or the disk space).

3) Are you able to tell what was the situation it happened in, and if the server runs some heavy plugins like 'rpg'?

4) What was the map while it happened? (If it was some new fancy custom map so it could be the maps' fault if it's not properly optimized).

1. I don't think so
2. I'm running Windows 10 with 8GB of RAM
3. The server is only running basic plugins like stats rank and so on. The overload happened right after I bought guns and started moving. The game lagged a bit then it disconnected. The server only had a few players playing.
4. The map was a small custom map which ran just fine

...so it seems it was not only you, then this tells me there's nothing to worry about, and it's server/map-side issue.

[HoneyBear]

I'd worry

[UmbralPenumbra]

This is an occasional thing that happens, it's not a hacker or anything like that

[[N]ebsun]

This can be caused by a hack, it has happened occasionally in the last year - a few hacks that used to be paid / private were released for free, so now there are some hackers exploiting it...
The most harm it does is disconnect players from the server.
It can also (rarely) be caused by other bugs in the game or hardware issues.