My clans public server is crashing like crazy the last 2 days. We were getting a couple crashes a day before R6, then it was good for a few days. But today and tommorow the server has crashed/lost connection at least 15 times!!! Almost always when near to full, which im sure is * off a lot of people.

I have tried contacting Branzone support, but they just blame EA.. thats fine... we all know there are issues with the game and the EA account servers. But I have talked to admins from other clans who have servers hosted on other game hosts and they hanv't had any or 1-2 crashes the last two days. So is it wrong for me to assume it might be something wrong with my specific server or host???

Some times the crash happens and everyone is disconnected but can reconnect right away. Less often the server crashes but no one is able to reconnect until i manualy goto the branzone control panel and stop/start the server.

Does anyone know what might be the cause?
Or is this not abnormal?
Are other servers hosted by branzone crashing this much?

Maybe the version of punkbuster on the server is not updating or something? Does anyone know the commands to manualy update punkbuster or check its version?

Hypernia blames EA as well and we crash a couple times a day.

I might buy the "blame EA for ALL crashes thing", but I just talked to the admin of another Canadian clan who has 2 BC2 servers and his havn't crashed once today. And only crashes once yesterday.

We were running Conquest mode all day with the crashing, so we changed to rush to see if that made a difference. Still crashed.

I've got everyone to close and stop using rcon tools, server still crashed.

But after the last crash I disabled punkbuster on the server (with Brandon@branzone's suggestion) and its been running full 32 players with no crash for the last 2 hours. So far so good. Will report if it still crashes with punkbuster disabled.

Of course now were open to hackers and can't stream to pbbans, but better than crashing, if its the problem.

I turned punkbuster back on for our server, it crashed just as much with it off. We were starting to get cheaters, so better to have it on if its not the cause.

The server has been crashing a bit less the last 2 days. maybe 3-4 times a day rather than 6+

It just crashed with only 5 people in the server, so its nothing to do with load. It fracking completely random, I can't find any common thread.

BC2 crashes for me pretty regularly too, after about the 2nd or 3rd crash for the day I just give up playing it.

Hmm my server provider blames EA also. Using Gameservers as a provider. Getting really annoyed with it crashing so much.

We're with gameservers also. I'll let you know how taking a couple slots away works out.

BF_SUB.Canadaka wrote:My clans public server is crashing like crazy the last 2 days. We were getting a couple crashes a day before R6, then it was good for a few days. But today and tommorow the server has crashed/lost connection at least 15 times!!! Almost always when near to full, which im sure is * off a lot of people.

lol how can it be crashing alot today and tomorrow
you can read the future?
when am i gonna die!?

my servers do completely fine im running gameservers out of chicago fills up nicely stays full for a day or 2

well our server is definatly more stable with PB turned off. Server was up for the longest stretch in weeks, 22 hours. But it just crashed about an hour ago and it was the type of crash where the server had to manually be restarted before people could reconnect.

So will leave PB off for now.

Our server crashed at least ever 2 hours after we turned PB on. So nobody came playing anymore. Since we turned PB off yesterday at 11h GMT+1 it has not even crashed one single time and did not even get empty at night (which is strange for a german server), just a short breakdown to 18 players around 5 am...

So until pb-problems get fixed, and the server crashes ARE a pb-problem, it stays off.

Almost forgot, our server is hosted by i3d.net in Frankfurt, so since it happens with all providers obviously they are not the one to blame.

With Rackage in the UK and it crashes like crazy, and annoyingly seems to do it 1. when I am playing well and 2. when the server is full.

Rackage blames EA too

Our server crashes are definatly tied to punkbuster. Our server has only crashed a couple times since thursday and hasn't been empty for 4 days straight. It crashed this evening so I thought it was a good chance to try enabling punkbuster again, since It hasn't been on since R7.

Within 1 hour our server has crashed twice with punkbuster enabled. So I am turning it off again.

We switched off PB and PB streaming and changed our 32 player server to SQD Death Match (16 players) when we have a 32 player server and it now seems more stable.

It was crashing every 2 hrs and now has been running for 12 hrs with no crash