Player Character Ghosting (after player leaves game)

[trevius]

I know this report is fairly old, but player ghosting is still an issue on Windows servers according to some of the admins I speak with regularly. I don't have any solution, but I just wanted to post some code here which is probably the cause of the problem. I don't understand what is being done at all in this, but this is where the disconnect is supposed to happen that I assume isn't happening when players are ghosted. Maybe someone with more experience can check this out sometime and see if anything stands out as a possible issue.


TCPConnection.cpp

void TCPConnection::FinishDisconnect() {
	MState.lock();
	if (connection_socket != INVALID_SOCKET && connection_socket != 0) {
		if (pState == TCPS_Connected || pState == TCPS_Disconnecting || pState == TCPS_Disconnected) {
			bool sent_something = false;
			SendData(sent_something);
		}
		pState = TCPS_Closing;
		shutdown(connection_socket, 0x01);
		shutdown(connection_socket, 0x00);
#ifdef WIN32
		closesocket(connection_socket);
#else
		close(connection_socket);
#endif
		connection_socket = 0;
		rIP = 0;
		rPort = 0;
		ClearBuffers();
	}
	pState = TCPS_Disconnected;
	MState.unlock();
}

void TCPConnection::Disconnect() {
	MState.lock();
	if(pState == TCPS_Connected || pState == TCPS_Connecting) {
		pState = TCPS_Disconnecting;
	}
	MState.unlock();
}