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Xalalau  [developer] Apr 13, 2023 @ 1:51pm
2023 WORKSHOP/GAME INSTABILITY
TL;DR; UWD is working fine, the game itself is buggy.

Since the beginning of April Workshop has been showing certain strange limits and unresponsiveness, leading to some issues like maps not beign sent.

Here's a report showing that not even GMod devs are sure what's going on:
https://github.com/Facepunch/garrysmod-issues/issues/5428

We've been able to see the console warnings from the GitHub url provided right above, which means that content from servers is partially and randomly failing to mount. Under these conditions, it's impossible for UWD to work properly as the addons themselves are not being loaded by the game.

A screenshot I took on Abril 11 showing these failed operations:
https://i.imgur.com/tiKfsMM.png

It has also been observed that GMod's x86-64 branch is currently abandoned[github.com] on an older update from 2022 with a couple of bugs that have already been fixed on the normal branch, which is a shame. I can confirm my X64 game reports v. 2022/07/13 right now and probably this can be one of the causes that some of you have problems with servers.

That's it for now,
thank you for supporting UWD!
Last edited by Xalalau; Apr 19, 2023 @ 5:05pm
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wolfee0507 Apr 13, 2023 @ 2:33pm 
Huh
#1
Xalalau  [developer] Apr 13, 2023 @ 4:05pm 
Originally posted by Bastianvvz:
So, https://github.com/Facepunch/garrysmod-issues/issues/5428

One of the replys was,

oninoni commented last week:
Seems like steam workshop is enforcing a rate limit on "100 Addons per user requesting addons on a specific server"
We have 2 identical servers. 1 Works. Other one does not.

harland555 commented last week
This issue has returned yes correct, the limit is 102 addons, then it will timeout.

Another link on this foro was,
"https://github.com/Facepunch/garrysmod-issues/issues/5409"

them one DEV? says:
FlorianLeChat commented last week (GMOD DEV?)
The fix is already on dev branch according to other people, regarding the x86-64 branch, the build server doesn't exist anymore and so this branch has a pretty old version of Garry's Mod (even before the January 2023 update) so it's impossible for Rubat to do any update right now.

If the limitations I have in English allow me to understand well, so far the solution would be to leave only 100-102 addons in the collection or the error will occur...

My collection originally has 172, I will remove the 70 extra addons and test if it works...

None of this was supposed to happen, so if a limit of 100 addons works I think at least that's an alternative we have now. Going back to the regular GMod branch also made the bugs seem to go away for me.
#2
Xalalau  [developer] Apr 13, 2023 @ 4:34pm 
At least for now, just wait until GMod devs fix it.
#3
Xalalau  [developer] Apr 19, 2023 @ 5:03pm 
Some news, they are testing fixes:

April 2023 Patch

• Reworked how workshop item info timeout works for server downloads to hopefully make it work more reliably

• Expanded the 'Your map differs from the servers' kick reason with more info

https://gmod.facepunch.com/changelist/3947
Last edited by Xalalau; Apr 29, 2023 @ 11:38am
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wolfee0507 Apr 19, 2023 @ 7:58pm 
Originally posted by Xalalau:
Some news, they are testing fixes:

April 2023 Patch

• Reworked how workshop item info timeout works for server downloads to hopefully make it work more reliably

https://gmod.facepunch.com/changelist/3947
finally
#5
Ryguy Apr 20, 2023 @ 1:11pm 
Addons seem to download but it says something about "client map does not match the server" now for some reason.
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Xalalau  [developer] Apr 20, 2023 @ 6:15pm 
Originally posted by Ryguy:
Addons seem to download but it says something about "client map does not match the server" now for some reason.
Facepunch must be nervous about GMod's core element being unstable lol
There's nothing to do but wait.

At least this problem got me working a bit on UWD again. Look what I did:
https://github.com/ceifa/gmod-workshop-downloader/pull/26

I noticed that many people find Addon Share better because they have no idea if our addon works and they feel powerless for not being able to act - because it's fully automatic... To solve this issue the new panel indicates all the selections, the reasons for them and allows manually adding workshop resources if the player wants to.
Last edited by Xalalau; May 2, 2023 @ 4:20am
#7
NNinja1255 Apr 29, 2023 @ 10:33am 
I'm still having the same issues with others now despite it working properly RIGHT AFTER the update with someone else.
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Xalalau  [developer] Apr 29, 2023 @ 11:37am 
Some updates!

Rubat said that the 100~200 addons limit issue is fixed on the gmod dev branch:
https://github.com/Facepunch/garrysmod-issues/issues/5428#issuecomment-1511416267
https://github.com/Facepunch/garrysmod-issues/issues/5409

Switch to it for now if you want to avoid loading errors.
https://i.imgur.com/zr74SAz.png

But I won't take this warning off until the game stabilizes and people stop complaining.
Last edited by Xalalau; Apr 29, 2023 @ 11:40am
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Vincent Apr 29, 2023 @ 2:07pm 
imo, this is mostly valve's fault for making workshop buggy as hell and the games that use workshop have to endure it
if im right it explains why not even facepunch's attempts at fixing it worked
#10
NNinja1255 May 1, 2023 @ 8:21am 
this apparently happened to me on both dev and x86_64 branch meaning either it is trying to download addons that don't exist anymore or it is steam workshop that is the issue
#11
ceifa  [developer] May 4, 2023 @ 5:17am 
Originally posted by Xalalau:
Some updates!

Rubat said that the 100~200 addons limit issue is fixed on the gmod dev branch:
https://github.com/Facepunch/garrysmod-issues/issues/5428#issuecomment-1511416267
https://github.com/Facepunch/garrysmod-issues/issues/5409

Switch to it for now if you want to avoid loading errors.
https://i.imgur.com/zr74SAz.png

But I won't take this warning off until the game stabilizes and people stop complaining.

Xalalau, as I sent to you on discord, this should have been fixed on main branch since april 18. If anyone are still having issues, please file a bug on garrysmod-issues repo.
Last edited by ceifa; May 4, 2023 @ 5:19am
#12
Xalalau  [developer] May 5, 2023 @ 9:05pm 
Anyway Rubat only said the issue is fixed in the dev branch, so I still think the error mostly remains.
#13
Ryguy May 13, 2023 @ 1:47pm 
still getting "Host Error: Map is missing" sadly
#14
Xalalau  [developer] Jun 21, 2023 @ 3:02pm 
Upcoming GMod update: https://wiki.facepunch.com/gmod/Update_Preview_Changelog

- Batch server Workshop download queries to 50 addons at a time, which should fix addons past 100 not loading when joining servers
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