¶ Joining Our Discord
There are countless benefits to joining our Discord, including but not limited to instant update and content preview notifications and heads up for limited time events. Not to mention, you get to engage with the community further. Not only is our Discord a cool place to hang out and get cool sneak peeks from, but it's also an amazing place to get support from official members of our team or other community members.
#❓｜help channel has tons of useful information regarding common bugs and solutions submitted straight from other players just like you.
📝｜event-logs channel allows users to see the details and behind the scenes information about events ran by the event team.
🎨｜content-creators allows everyone to see news and updates from popular and beloved Star Wars community creators, such as CinematicCaptures or WoofWoofWolffe.
📢｜announcements & 📢｜defcon-gaming channels are for our very own news and updates sent out about Age of The Republic updates and development, and also receive announcements from our other wonderful network neighbors.
¶ Understanding Garry's Mod
Garry's mod is a very old, and at times, a slow game. Even though we are constantly looking to improve and benefit the server performance, at times players may experience issues. These issues can happen either on the server's end due to hardware limitations, or on the client's end for countless reasons.
¶ FPS Issues
FPS or Frames Per Second is the measure of how fast a player's computer can render the game. It is also known as Frame Rate, or also referred to as Client Lag. Low FPS can result in choppy gameplay similar to lag, but it's completely player sided. Typically, the newer and more powerful your computer is, the less likely it is that you will encounter FPS issues.
There are various things that can affect FPS such as too high of graphic or model quality, or having certain commands enabled.
FPS Fixes: Basics
- Use the x64 bit version of garry's mod.-
Right click on garry's mod in your steam library, go to properties, and select the beta tab. From there, you are going to want to select the x86-64 + chromium version.
- Also known as chromium, this was/is a beta version of gmod and allows people to use their computer's hardware from 2020 on a game that is from like 1990 or something.
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Turn your garry's mod options down.
- Model detail, Texture detail, Shader detail, Shadow detail, and several other settings may be too strong for your computer. It's also garry's mod, the game itself can't even render high quality assets.
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Enable
Multicore Renderingin the garry's mod options menu. -
Utilize the
!fpscommand while on the server. -
Clean out your garry's mod caches and unsubscribe from all unused or old addons you downloaded.
- Seriously, think about how long you've had garry's mod for, and how many servers you have joined or addons you downloaded off the workshop. Chances are it has built up in your hard drive, and while our server does not use the content you personally downloaded, it is still loaded on your end and affecting your performance to some capacity.
FPS Fixes: File Configuration
First off, know what an autoexec.cfg file is.It is a file your garry's mod looks at to automatically run a set of commands everytime you launch the game. Utilizing your autoexec file can help with FPS or crashing issues. Think of it as launch parameters.
- Navigate to E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\cfg
(Your directory might be different but it will always be garrysmod\cfg) - There you will find an autoexec.cfg file. Open it up, and it should be blank.
- Here are a few commands to get you started, and what they do:
fps_max 0- Removes the FPS limit.r_shadows 0- Removes shadows from rendering, also prevents gmod shadow bugs from happening.mat_specular 0- Some assets have special textures that are affected by light, and might not render correctly for you or the server that you are playing on. This removes that issue when models are pink and shiny.r_drawmodeldecals 0- Prevents bullet holes, blood splatter, blaster marks, etc. from showing up on props/vehicles/models of any kind. Garry's Mod has a tough time rendering these things on high poly models, so it helps to disable it all together.r_decals 0- Prevents bullet holes and all that jazz from showing up too often or at all, helps immensely with FPS. (Kind of does the same thing as the command above, but disables decals globally.)gmod_mcore_test 1- If you have joined our servers, you would have noticed a FPS Booster popup menu. This is the command it runs, and basically allows gmod to utilize a CPU core properly.
- Here are a few commands to get you started, and what they do:
- These next commands are dependent entirely on your PC setup, so pay close attention.
threadpool_affinity 2- This tells Garry's Mod the amount of CPU-Cores it is allowed to use. I personally have it set to 2, and I have an i7-9700f at the time of writing this guide. 8 for octa-core, 6 for hexa-core, 4 for quad-core, 2 for double-core.mem_max_heapsize 4000- This tells Garry's Mod the total amount of RAM it is allowed to use. The number variable is set in MB, so if you want to dedicate 2GB of RAM, enter 2000 instead, and so on.- If you have a x64 bit machine, make sure you change your garry's mod beta branch to the Chromium branch via the Steam Library properties menu.
¶ Common Game Issues
"Crashing while loading or being met with a "Lost connection" or "Server down" screen
Suggested Steps
- Change your settings to low if not done already. It's gmod, not an Unreal Engine game.
- Disable all your addons in the main menu.
- Disable/unsubscribe from all your addons and delete them out off your hard drive.
- Do step three and subscribe to the content pack as well.
- Do not click, ALT+TAB out of loading screen, etc. Let it load you in.
- Verify game cache.
- Completely reinstall game.
"Missing map" error when connecting to the server
Information
- This issue is common for our Anaxes server due to the limitations we put on our map to keep it exclusive to our community, meaning that the map cannot be obtained normally on any client.
Steps
- Close your game if it's open
- Right click "Garry's Mod" in steam
- Click "properties"
- Open the "Local Files" tab
- Click "Browse local files"
- Open the folder "garrysmod", "download" and then "maps"
- Delete the files with the name of the servers maps -OR- just delete everything in it
