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Development => Bugs, Feature Requests, and Feedback => Topic started by: Bono on June 22, 2013, 05:15:21 PM

Title: [BUG] No new loading screen when server have disabled "fast uploads"
Post by: Bono on June 22, 2013, 05:15:21 PM

If I don't have map, and server have setting sv_fast_download 0 there's no new loading/dowlnoading screen.

b38 on server and client.

Title: Re: [BUG] No new loading screen when server have disabled "fast uploads"
Post by: ViciouZ on June 22, 2013, 06:18:10 PM

It's not a bug, it's a (missing) feature :P

Basically I was too lazy to cope with the (separate) progress display code for the old-style download system.

To be honest, I'm not sure why sv_fast_download 0 is still an option. It provides limited feedback for the clients, is less configurable/throttleable for the server owner, iirc it copes badly with high ping clients, and of course takes bare time to actually download anything. On top of that I don't believe any issues have been encountered with it that weren't also present with the old system. The only reason I can see it being useful is as a compile-time option if you wanted to run a q2-compatible server.