negative max clients?

[sinoth]

My server.cfg includes:

 

seta sv_maxclients 4

 

And when I look at my server, either under Internet connections or Local connections, the number of players is 0/-4. I also added:

 

seta g_maxGameClients 4

 

but it didn't fix anything.. I didn't have this problem before, any ideas on what would be causing it? I'm using the external Win32 ded server, not the built in one.

[MatrixCPA]

Do you happen to have sv_privateClients set to 8 by chance? If you don't, make sure there isn't an entry for that in your jk2mpconfig.cfg.

[sinoth]

Yeah, that was in my jk2mpconfig.cfg... commenting it out fixed the problem. Thanks!

 

Do you know why that caused that error?

[MatrixCPA]

The number of slots shown in the in-game browser (and some 3rd party browsers) show only public slots. When you set sv_privateClients to something other than 0, the total number of public slots is reduced by same. So, if you have sv_maxclients 10 and sv_privateClients 8, you only have 2 public slots. If you set the private clients to something more than the max clients, you get a negative number. Not too bright, is it?