GMod Community News Commits, GitHub & Discord. One feed. Commit 5bca5b on main reworks how 0-byte model files are handled ("Change where it bails so maybe its less error prone?"), fixes prediction error counting for certain fields and adds icons for the 5 new TF2 maps.
The empty model fix also reached the x86-64 beta separately in commit 7e5aa8, together with the earlier "Handle 0 byte model files crashing the game" change.
Commit 09a162 on main makes the change that had Entity:SetPos fire trigger touch events opt-in via a separate argument, since it caused infinite loops in existing addons such as TTT. The UV behaviour without the sub-pixel adjustment moves to a new function, surface.DrawTexturedRectRawUV, so surface.DrawTexturedRectUV works the old way again.
This answers the complaints of the past days: RNDX and addons that compensated for the old adjustment no longer break. The same commit also fixes NPC-related crashes and lua_refresh_file autocomplete, adds the serverside Player:RunConsoleCommand (with the same limitations as the global RunConsoleCommand) and uses it in some Sandbox tools, and fixes citizen_sheet_bloody.vtf looking blurry. The changes reached the x86-64 beta in the large merge commit cfa73c.
TotallyARussian reported two long-standing bugs on the x86-64 beta: in #7117, a gamemode changed during a game reverts to the previous one on the next map; in #7118, subscribing to or unsubscribing from an addon while on a server unloads the server's content, turning models into errors.
He says both happen on all branches and have for a long time. For now, the only reliable way to switch gamemodes is to quit the map and do it in the main menu. No developer replies yet.
ArtyomChyornyj2035 reported 0 server FPS and "Connection problem" warnings on entity-heavy maps (x86-64 build 26168646).
pruf reported an error loading a map with a 0-byte .lmp file on dev.
In #next-update, Yunhaohku hit a crash showing "funny number -12"; Evgeny Akabenko said the cause wasn't determined, and Blank said it happened to him nonstop since the day before. Rubat asked for a crash dump and linked the crash reporting guide. Later that day Darth said Yunhaohku's crash dump shows an outdated or edited launcher.dll.
Commit f668ee on the x86-64 beta: "Fix crashes related to recent changes, including saves".
Cookiestrike reported that vbsp, vvis, vrad and studiomdl crash with access violations after the 22 Oct update; gedlunstts-lgtm posted a Crowbar workaround. In #next-update, lavrentievich, VARdanplay_YT and ejjk123 reported Hammer crashing and Hammer++ failing to compile. Closed 23 Oct.
evilpigeonlol reported that save and map transitions crash with an empty save file on x86-64 (Windows). In #next-update, Ormi asked the same.
In #next-update, Vitroze reported that after Alt+F4 → Cancel, opening the Problems menu and clicking outside loses focus on the main menu (x86-64 build 10211). Dezlo saw server-created menus not removing properly after cancelling the prompt. Earlier, Drago🐉 noted that closing GMod via Alt+F4 or the taskbar now brings up a confirmation menu.
In #next-update, Evgeny Akabenko reported a crash on map load after the x86-64 update (CUtlBuffer::PeekGet invalid offset 0), caused by an addon with 0-byte model files left by a download that ran out of disk space.
In #next-update, Redox (22 Oct) and Nykez (23 Oct) saw bad argument #1 to 'DrawPoly' (table must contain at least three vertices), for example from cl_arc.lua. On 25 Oct Vitroze asked whether it would be fixed. Nykez said it is a bug fix and code has to be fixed, and Rubat agreed: "its not valid code on your end". Beelzebub posted a one-line patch for the bad math in luabee's arc library.
In #next-update, Redox asked why x86-64 still gets updates when it looks like it'll be deleted in weeks or months. Rubat: "for more wide testing, yeah". Redox suggested an announcement telling people to switch from x86-64 to dev.
Commit bb0975 on the x86-64 beta brings over the main changes from 5–12 October: the surface.DrawPoly error on fewer than 3 vertices, the mcore rope fix, ALT+F4 closing the game, the getmetatable() LuaJIT fix, the map compiler updates, Entity:SetPos running trigger touch events, menu state library removal, the HQ Eli face and the other fixes listed in commits 185851, efb205, 7be067, 71ca28, c18cba and 693484.
In #next-update, RaphaelIT7 asked whether "Apply that getmetatable() LuaJIT fix someone wanted" was ported to x86-64: his crashes were gone on dev but not on x86-64. Rubat: "if it isn't in the changelog, stands to reason it wasn't yet".
In #next-update, TheSoulClock said the new x86-64 branch crashes his low-end laptop every time he joins a big server; Rubat said crash logs would be needed to do anything about it. Nykez said a Mac user of his started crashing on load, and WinterPhoenix suspected (not yet verified) a render.Capture crash on x86-64 Linux.
Commit 831250 on the x86-64 beta switches the Chromium (CEF) process to a newer GCC.
Grocel wrote in the thread that Rubat plans to start the Linux x64 transition during the current update cycle, so concrete progress could come by March 2027 at the latest.
Commit 0e9ec4 on the x86-64 beta brings a large batch of fixes: several potential crashes around entity creation and search, a new p2p_force_reliable convar, loading Srcds workshop IDs from a file, fixed normals on many built-in models and new props.
Entity:SetSaveValueinfo_player_teamspawn, info_vehicle_groundspawn and placeholder entities based on prop_dynamic/prop_physicsGetBoneTransform returning garbage (needs further investigation)p2p_force_reliable (default 0); small packets now use k_EP2PSendUnreliable instead of k_EP2PSendUnreliableNoDelayhost_writeconfig_luacfg/srcds_addons.txt to cache/srcds_addon_list_cache.txtprop_effect in the base gamemodeUpdateScreenEffectTexture matproxy (forces _rt_FullFrameFB to update at the end of the frame), used for the PHX screenSWEP:CustomAmmoDisplay causing UI overlaps; ammo HUD no longer spams animationsBootil::BString usages (ILuaShared unchanged), less duplication calling Lua from Cgmod_tool no longer errors with addon tools in non-Sandbox gamemodesmegascan reported repeated SIGSEGV crashes on Linux x86-64 inside the Steam Runtime's libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (RSA_new_method) while a Bootil thread verifies HTTPS certificates.