Many older crash dupes rely on bugs patched in 2020–2022. If you’re still on GMod version from 2018, you’re a target.
The dupe spawns hundreds of props constrained in a way that creates a perpetual collision resolution—for example, a series of ropes and wheels that never stop calculating forces. The server’s physics engine (Bullet Physics) tries to solve this loop, pegs the CPU at 100%, and never recovers. gmod server crasher dupe
Result: Server locks up until the process is killed. Many older crash dupes rely on bugs patched in 2020–2022
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