Personally afaik I don't get any crashes, but I did use KF2Tweaker as well. The game at it's current state is unplayable without it as the default settings are absolutely miserable with it's configs.

To the comment below, KF2Tweaker essentially allows you to make KF2 ask for more ram & VRAM to run properly among other things like performance fixes and even graphical improvements that don't really matter for modern day PCs as long as you got a GTX 1080 or above.

This mod used to be a must back in the day but unfortunately if you still play KF2 I have to recommend against it. Its not the modders fault but unless your going to manually delete like 200 or so entries so that game doesn't ctd its not worth it.

Why won't this work with an online server?

anyone have a non broken list?

What risk is there to use it on an online server ?

very useful mod

Hi, would it be possible to get the source images please ?
And maybe there is a way to make it work online ?

I understand now and I apologize. I wouldn't ever bother to ask him because he's busy with other things. Either way thank you very much for making this mod. I'm new to KF2 Mods :D

Mate, the KF-Killzone2 is another killzone,

not the killzone_2nd,and there's also a map named Killzone3,

there's 3 version of killzone: Killzone, killzone2, killzone3.

These killzones are very old and outdated and not Killzone_2nd.

You have to ask Zachjd to make a new picture for Killzone_2nd.

What's the name of this map on Custom maps preview? I read the title but I couldn't find it on Custom Preview Map. Although I found this

[KF-KillZone2 KFMapSummary]
MapName=KF-KillZone2
ScreenshotPathName=UI_MapPreview_Custom.UI_MapPreview_KF-KillZone2

Unfortunately, it doesn't work while others worked. I hope you add https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1586474710

There's no animated previews here but it might conflict with other map preview mods.
You won't be kicked nor banned, it's a client side mod only you see.
Works online and offline too.

1. How about the Animated Map Previews?
2. Animated and Custom Map Previews. Can I play it both online and offline? I'm just being careful because I don't want to get ban and kick from server :D

Yup, just modify the map list and remove any maps you don't want to see.

Hello, I have a question.
Can I delete the other custom maps (800+) so I can only use Custom Map Previews for 6 custom maps that I subscribed and downloaded?

Duplicated versions were intentional because some maps have different versions. This way you can still see the map preview even if the map is updated (because some authors change the map file name) or they created alternative versions of the same map.

KF-A-Operations
KF-A-Operations-b3
KF-A-Operations-b3_Light

KF-CanterlotHigh
KF-CanterlotHigh_No_Darkness

Here's a screenshot from my spreadsheet
https://gyazo.com/5fbd6f1f635456c2b19339170414eaaf

There's a lot of maps that aren't on the Workshop too. Even if you did get rid of the duplicates, there's still at least 600-700+ unique maps out there, maybe even more today. You'll run into issues eventually sadly one way or another.

I have to tell you, our server has only 400+ maps. There shouldn't be over 800 maps on workshop.

I check your map list, there's a lot of duplicated version of a single map and a lot of redirect maps which not existed on workshop.

That explain why it reach max maps very easily.

Good to know it's not just me then! Yea I could do that selectively, but I don't think it's worth the hassle running 200+ maps. I wish they'd make it work with servers and simplify this whole thing.

Deleting the cache folder usually fixes the crash for offline play. For online post-game crashes, that's something else I've never figured out how to circumvent and yes it does cause some instability. Game/Engine can't handle so many entries in the KFGame.ini file sadly, and that's why I stopped updating this mod. I originally wanted this to be a one-stop shop where people could subscribe and see every preview image for every custom map.

Small workaround, you can always remove map entries from KFGame.ini you don't care to see previews for. That's why I made a 270+ map list so it doesn't overload it. I'm surprised Tripwire never bothered to official support custom map previews when custom map. I wish there was something I could do but there's no code behind this mod, just textures.

I got it to work but had a lot of instability issues. I deleted my cache folder but it still crashed on me after one match on top of being all around slower. Not worth it for me.

Where is the cache folder, exactly?

@gasatom If I remember right, I remember that issue being fixed by deleting your Cache folder then re-launching the game.

The moment I select play solo, the game crashes despite not being on multiplayer and after just opening the game, 800+ images is too much to handle?

I haven't played KF2 since July but I assume they haven't fixed/changed anything related to the road block we encountered with this. The amount of images we can add to the .upk is not where the limitation is. However, it's the amount of maps data stores added to the config file, as below.
[KF-MapName KFMapSummary]
MapName=KF-MapName
ScreenshotPathName=UI_MapPreview_Custom.UI_MapPreview_KF-MapName
You'll find your game will immediately crash after you finish a match when the game tries to load them all at once for the map vote screen. This was the reason why we made smaller map lists to avoid this game breaking issue. (270+)

So you can't update the previews list further?

@▂▄▆ Stephen ▆▄▂ Well not ALL the new maps but there are certain maps that have come out recently that would be nice to have previews for. Just wondering how I could do this myself since there doesn't seem to be any tutorials online to help me and others out to have our own group of custom maps since a lot of us won't download these certain maps to paly on.

@Sharky, I voted for it ages ago. Anyone else who reads this should go and vote for it too.

https://trello.com/c/XYBk3MhD/116-map-voting-preview-image-for-custom-maps#
Vote for it in their community requested changes.

@Sir Buttfiend7854. What do you want to do? Add all the new maps that came out since this was last updated?

How would I do this by myself since this isn't going to get anymore updates?

Unfortunately not because the game basically can't handle too many maps and your game will just crash. Unless, you only "Activate" the map previews you want to see.

Will this get any more updates? Been plenty of custom maps that has come out since the last update, and they're just begging for an icon.

Good job

sorry for the dumb question is there a way to add redirect for dedicated servers? or is this only for personal list only if you have the map?

@zachjd thanks you for reply, i got it

Alrite, I just solved the issue somehow, I looked in KFGame\BrewedPC\Packages\UserInterface\Shared and found that the upk file size was 15,605kb while the one in cache was 109,308kb, I replaced the smaller file.

No idea how it happened but atleast it's fixed now. Thank you Stephan & Zach for trying to help!

@TABOOX Ask TWI to make it possible, my only voice isn't enough. If this was made into a server-side mod, it would disable stats and TWI doesn't whitelist anything either so it wouldn't be worth the effort imo. TW just needs to allow server owners to point an image to a custom map so it shows in-game.

I used your configuration but I still couldn't replicate the issue. I would try verifying the game files as show here.

https://pastebin.com/y32BfJwe

can make this to server version cause we cant tell everyone to sub this mod :(

Gotta be something with your KFGame.ini. If you could make a pastebin of it, I’ll check it out.

Here: https://streamable.com/36v66

Hope this helps.

If you could record a small clip of the issue, might help.

Still didn't work.

I'm only subscribed to this version of the mod, everything else is just maps, controlleddifficulty and zedternal..

Works fine for me and zach.

Are you subscribed to any other versions of this mod on the workshop?

I would unsubscribe from everything KF2 related, including this workshop item, then delete the KF2 folder in My Documents > Games and then launch the game to make fresh config files.
Then exit the game and re-subscribe to the workshop page and use any of the 270+ lists.

Let me know if that does anything.

Didn't work either.. Could some of the images be incorrectly sized?

I would backup your key binds (KFInput.ini) and delete your entire KillingFloor2 folder in Documents/My Games. Launch the game so it generates new configs files then install the mod again. Let me know if that fixes the problem.

Yes, it does the same thing, ShoppingSpree & ShorelineAndCove among other maps showed blank screens.

I'll try using the 270+ version.

Could be a memory issue with the large 800+ list. Does it do the same thing with the smaller 270+ map lists? (for maps it supports)

@zacbjd Sry for the late reply, deleted my cache folder and booted up the game, issue still persists unfortunately...

Anyone else having the same problem with images failing to load?