EasyPickins Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 You can help test the easy host-a-game feature in Project Zomboid! This is available on a branch called onlinetest with beta password hailkingspiffo. (Right click Project Zomboid -> Properties -> Betas tab) Coop FAQ Here's how it works: There's a new button called HOST on the main screen, click it. This takes you to a new screen where you can (if you want) edit settings for the server, or just leave the defaults for a typical Survival-type experience. Choose the amount of memory for the server. Click the START button. This will start the server using the settings you chose (or the default if you didn't choose any settings). Once the server has finished loading, you'll automatically join the server. There is no need to enter a username or password. Your username is your Steam profile name. Now that you're in-game, press Escape to go back to the main menu, and click the INVITE FRIENDS button. Invite any of your friends that are currently online. They will get a notification through Steam chat that they have been invited. If you receive an invite to join a co-op server, simply click the link in Steam chat. The game will launch if it wasn't running already. You'll automatically join the co-op server. There's no username or password needed. dnk3912, Kuren, f3rret and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunger john Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 nice job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strats Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Thanks EasyP! Send my thanks along to those jolly old chaps at General Arcade plus whoever else made this possible! Kuren and dnk3912 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Muffins Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Quick question what should my friends and i do if it says server stopped during launch (NormalTermination) whenever we hit start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyPickins Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 4 minutes ago, Mr.Muffins said: Quick question what should my friends and i do if it says server stopped during launch (NormalTermination) whenever we hit start. There should be files called ProjectZomboid\coop-stderr.txt and ProjectZomboid\coop-stdout.txt. Post those on pastbin.org and put the links here. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Muffins Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 (edited) I cant seem to find those files in the project zomboid folder would they be located somewhere else? edit: i just did a search of my entire computer and it cant find those .txt files so maybe my issue is that the game isnt creating them. Edited April 19, 2016 by Mr.Muffins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyPickins Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 3 minutes ago, Mr.Muffins said: I cant seem to find those files in the project zomboid folder would they be located somewhere else? edit: i just did a search of my entire computer and it cant find those .txt files so maybe my issue is that the game isnt creating them. Ok, maybe the console.txt file has an error. (C:\Users\XXX\Zomboid\console.txt on Windows). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Muffins Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 6 minutes ago, EasyPickins said: Ok, maybe the console.txt file has an error. (C:\Users\XXX\Zomboid\console.txt on Windows). ok here is the pastebin link for my console.txt http://pastebin.com/65MDhmKb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyPickins Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 It looks like a bug caused by not having subscribed to any Workshop items. Try subscribe to any Workshop item and it should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Muffins Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 (edited) 12 minutes ago, EasyPickins said: It looks like a bug caused by not having subscribed to any Workshop items. Try subscribe to any Workshop item and it should work. i just subscribed to a couple workshop items and am still getting the same error. here another pastebin link of the console file http://pastebin.com/EJT01X4M Edited April 19, 2016 by Mr.Muffins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyPickins Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 Strange. I just released an update to fix that bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necromatic_Corgi Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Not sure if it's a bug but there are clusters of zombies spawning in front of every house, Is there a way to fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bias_K Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Same issue as Mr.Muffins http://pastebin.com/Qe5ipWbT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyPickins Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 11 minutes ago, Bias_K said: Same issue as Mr.Muffins http://pastebin.com/Qe5ipWbT Your error is that it couldn't allocate enough memory to the server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProjectSky Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 (edited) I can't start the server Cmd windows Error occurred during initialization of VM SERVER: process-status@terminated SERVER: info@coop mode enabled SERVER: status@initialising coop-stdout.txt SVN REVISION 964 versionNumber=34.15 - COOP demo=false invalid username given to "-adminusername" coop-stderr.txt No content I try to allocate a different amount of memory, the problem is not resolved Edited April 19, 2016 by Sky_Orc_Mm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyPickins Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 44 minutes ago, Sky_Orc_Mm said: I can't start the server Error occurred during initialization of VM SERVER: process-status@terminated SERVER: info@coop mode enabled SERVER: status@initialising I try to allocate a different amount of memory, the problem is not resolved Do you have ProjectZomboid\coop-stderr.txt or coop-stdout.txt? They may say what the error is. Actually, what does it say before "Error occurred during initialization of VM"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bias_K Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 58 minutes ago, EasyPickins said: Your error is that it couldn't allocate enough memory to the server. My bad. Now I have a new issue. When I host a game, I don't have the option to invite friends, however whenever a friend invites me it says they are playing a different game and prompts me to accept the invite from the desktop. If I accept an invite from the desktop it takes me into the game and tells me it is "conecting to server..." forever. I have made sure we are all opted into the "onlinetest -" beta and that my game is completely up to date. Not sure if it helps but here's a new console.txt http://pastebin.com/TpXrCGUN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyPickins Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 2 minutes ago, Bias_K said: My bad. Now I have a new issue. When I host a game, I don't have the option to invite friends, however whenever a friend invites me it says they are playing a different game and prompts me to accept the invite from the desktop. If I accept an invite from the desktop it takes me into the game and tells me it is "conecting to server..." forever. I have made sure we are all opted into the "onlinetest -" beta and that my game is completely up to date. Not sure if it helps but here's a new console.txt http://pastebin.com/TpXrCGUN You're not playing the Steam-enabled version, but the person inviting you is playing the Steam-enabled version. Invites only works with the Steam-enabled version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bias_K Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 (edited) 28 minutes ago, EasyPickins said: You're not playing the Steam-enabled version, but the person inviting you is playing the Steam-enabled version. Invites only works with the Steam-enabled version. Nevermind, I guess I set the launch options to -nosteam at some point for some reason and never bothered to change it. I should have checked that but it didn't even cross my mind. Sorry for the posts that were all my own issues, and thanks for the help. Edited April 19, 2016 by Bias_K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyPickins Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 22 minutes ago, Bias_K said: As in one of my launch settings were wrong (didn't opt into the right beta or something like that), or I'm not playing the official Steam version? Because if it's the latter I did buy the game off the Steam store, so I'm not sure why that would be an issue. It said this in your console. Did you start the game through Steam or by running a .bat file? Make sure Steam is running before starting the game. Loading networking libraries... Loading RakNet32... Loading ZNetNoSteam32... znet: ZNet loaded SteamUtils started without Steam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProjectSky Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 1 hour ago, EasyPickins said: Do you have ProjectZomboid\coop-stderr.txt or coop-stdout.txt? They may say what the error is. Actually, what does it say before "Error occurred during initialization of VM"? These files do not contain any useful content. File contains the contents I have posted on the above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmy101 Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Sky_Orc_Mm, how much memory do you have on your machine in total? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyPickins Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 18 minutes ago, Sky_Orc_Mm said: These files do not contain any useful content. File contains the contents I have posted on the above. Sorry, I didn't see the edit you made. Your Steam profile name isn't a valid whitelist/account name. I just updated the game so it should work now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oreosncarrots Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 (edited) Idk how to work the post sorry >.> didn't mean to quote Edited April 19, 2016 by oreosncarrots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oreosncarrots Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 If I try the beta will it deleted any worlds I have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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