Server Crash Issue

[Elbereth]

For some reason, clients are able to crash my server! That aint right.
I get this error in my logs, but the server shows "Runtime Error 9"
Libraries are installed, and even if they weren't, bad clients shouldn't be able to crash my server. Any suggestions on fixing this?

LOG ERROR:
The following error occured at 'InitDDSurf' in 'modDirectDraw7'.
Run-time error '53': File not found.

[Elbereth]

Am I allowed to bump this? It's been a week or two….

[Yxxe]

@Elbereth:

> LOG ERROR:
> The following error occured at 'InitDDSurf' in 'modDirectDraw7'.
> Run-time error '53': File not found.

This means one or more of the client GFX files are missing. Go through the client folder and make sure everything is there. :]

[ramoneknot]

but even client files is missing this is no able to crash a server

[eltony]

well sometimes when u add new GFX's to your client also make sure you put the same ones in your server.

[Carim123]

@eltony:

> well sometimes when u add new GFX's to your client also make sure you put the same ones in your server.

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[Joyce]

Did you mod anything in the game's client? It could be that the client is sending flawed data as it crashes for some odd reason. And does it occur when someone logs out normally as well? If so, you have some very odd data mixup somewhere in your player UDTs.