# Garry's Mod December 2024 Patch

- Product: Garry's Mod (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/garry-s-mod)
- Vendor: Facepunch Studios
- Date: 2024-12-09
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/4000/view/505062580159513360
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/garry-s-mod/releases/2024-12-09-december-2024-patch

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- **changed** — Merged Episode 1, Episode 2 and Lost Coast mounting options into the Half-Life 2 mounting option
- **added** — Added sv_quota_stringcmd_kick convar to kick players who exceed sv_quota_stringcmdspersecond
- **fixed** — Fixed crashes to do with entity render groups in Lua
- **fixed** — Fixed crashes with missing physics objects in bone followers and info_radial_link_controller
- **fixed** — Fixed crashes with particles getting insane particle count
- **fixed** — Fixed crashes to do with NPC:TaskFail & debug overlay
- **fixed** — Fixed crashes with CTriggerWind when loading a save
- **fixed** — Fixed GM:PlayerAuthed being called twice
- **fixed** — Fixed GM:PlayerAuthed always returning empty SteamID in singleplayer even when available
- **security** — Fixed 2 exploits reported via HackerOne
- **fixed** — Fixed r_lightcache_zbuffercache 1 crashing the game if set after map load
- **fixed** — Fixed material __error is missing warning on map load
- **fixed** — Fixed .gma whitelist being different between game/gmad
- **fixed** — Fixed character blinking by making flex controller names case insensitive again
- **fixed** — Fixed degraded loading times for certain servers/addons due to spawnmenu changes from October 2024 update
- **fixed** — Fixed BRANCH being set to prerelease on NONE beta clients
- **fixed** — Fixed Lua error with DTree node on rebuild when all its child nodes are deleted
- **fixed** — Fixed dying outside of the map displaying Dropping weapon in solid console messages
- **fixed** — Potential fix for family sharing owner SteamID being wrong in unknown cases
- **security** — Potential fix for server reconnect spam by malicious actors

Hello everyone,

We are releasing a small patch today with some fixes for issues introduced in the previous update, as well as some extra fixes.

Servers and clients are recommended to update as soon as possible.

##### Change list

-  Merged Episode 1, Episode 2 and Lost Coast mounting options into the Half-Life 2 mounting option

-  Added sv_quota_stringcmd_kick convar - kicks players who exceed sv_quota_stringcmdspersecond

-  Fixed crashes to do with entity render groups in Lua

-  Fixed crashes with missing physics objects in bone followers and info_radial_link_controller

-  Fixed crashes with particles getting insane particle count

-  Fixed crashes to do with NPC:TaskFail & debug overlay

-  Fixed crashes with CTriggerWind when loading a save

-  Fixed GM:PlayerAuthed being called twice

-  Fixed GM:PlayerAuthed always returning empty SteamID in singleplayer even when we have it available

-  Fixed 2 exploits reported via HackerOne

-  Fixed r_lightcache_zbuffercache 1 crashing the game if set after map load

-  Fixed "material __error is missing" warning on map load

-  Fixed .gma whitelist being different between game/gmad

-  Fixed character blinking by making flex controller names case insensitive again

-  Fixed degraded loading times for certain servers/addons due to spawnmenu changes from October 2024 update

-  Fixed BRANCH being set to "prerelease" on NONE beta clients (dedicated servers will continue to report "prerelease" on NONE/"public" beta)

-  Fixed Lua error with DTree node on rebuild when all its child nodes are deleted

-  Fixed dying outside of the map displaying "Dropping weapon in solid" console messages - Player:StripWeapons still drops weapons before removing them, Player:KillSilent and other methods of dying no longer does

-  Potential fix for family sharing owner SteamID being wrong in unknown cases

-  Potential fix for server reconnect spam by malicious actors

-  Removed a bunch of unused gamemenucommand commands - things like Half-Life 2's chapter selector, etc

-  Removed __screenshot_internal - it was never used by the game, no reason to keep it

-  Removed cl_soundfile - Unused, no reason to keep it, was trying to send itself to servers on join

-  Removed unused systems - Source's bug reporter, benchmarking stuff, BonusMaps stuff, Mumble stuff

-  Removed some debug related save/load related console commands

-  Added some more known backdoor URL to HTTP blacklist

-  Blocked "load" console command for Lua

-  Disallowed players from using voice chat unless they are fully connected

-  Do not set "commentary" to 0 on map start, since the console variable no longer exists

-  Stop shipping Commentary Editor for -tools, since we removed the commentary system which was never used in the first place