at my PC, the problem was that the server's sv.maxplayers was set to 50 as the tutorial said. When I set it down to max 42 players the server worked fine. So in case anyone else got that problem edit your mods\bf2\Settings\ServerSettings.con and change the sv.maxplayers to 42 or below additionally, on my machine the singleplayer games wouldn't load the correct ranks/unlocks (they were logged correctly though) to solve that problem just start a dedicated server (bf2.exe +dedicated 1 ... ) and then run your bf2.exe with an additional "+multi 1" ... that worked for me ( thanks to PaLL3 for posting this in another thread )
Actually, the real solution appears to be the work The Shadow did on the playermanager code. If you are having these problems, just replace as I did the beginning of the def getProfileId(self): code by this : pid = self.profileid if not host.pmgr_p_get("ai", self.index) and pid == 0: # Don't bother doing this if player is 'bot pid = int(host.pmgr_p_get("profileid", self.index)) self.profileid = pid if pid == 0: if pmanager_pid_handler == 1: # Try Backend playerID first - idea by ArmEagle if g_debug: print "Retrieving Profile ID (%s) via HTTP/1.1 miniclient" % str(host.pmgr_p_get("name", self.index)) # URL for retrieving player ID via internal miniclient player_nick = string.replace(str(host.pmgr_p_get("name", self.index)), ' ', '%20') asp_playerid = '/ASP/bf2getplayerid.php?nick=' + player_nick if g_debug: print "URI: %s" % (asp_playerid) # Fetch Data data = http_get( http_backend_addr, http_backend_port, asp_playerid ) if data and data[0] == 'O': if g_debug: print "Received PID data is VALID, length %d" % int(len(data)) datalines = data.splitlines() pidval = datalines[2].split('\t') pid = int(pidval[1]) else: print "Received PID data is INVALID, length %d" % int(len(data)) # Use PID.TXT to find PlayerID if pid == 0: # Backend check is disabled or failed if g_debug: print "Retrieving Profile ID (%s) via PID file" % str(host.pmgr_p_get("name", self.index)) try: fh = file(pmanager_pidtxt_path, 'rb') line = fh.readlines() fh.close() count = 0 while count < len(line): if line[count].rstrip() == host.pmgr_p_get("name", self.index): pid = int(line[count + 1].rstrip()) break count += 2 # create a new PID - idea by FiberLetalis if pid == 0: if g_debug: print "New player, creating Profile ID..." new_pid = int(line[count - 1].rstrip()) + 1 fh = file(pmanager_pidtxt_path, 'ab') fh.write('\r\n' + host.pmgr_p_get("name", self.index) + '\r\n' + str(new_pid)) fh.close() pid = new_pid except IOError: print 'PID file not found!' self.profileid = pid return pid else: return pid This is The Shadow's code, and he has done a bang-up great job of solving this nagging problem. His code is for 1.3RC1, but it works fine with a version 1.2 script, as I can attest.
