dedicated-servers

[nocturne charm]

24.01 00:30:13 [Server] INFO [2023.01.24-:167][ 0]LogOnline: Display: STEAM: OnlineSubsystemSteam::Shutdown()
24.01 00:30:13 [Server] INFO [2023.01.24-:167][ 0]LogOnline: Warning: STEAM: Steam API failed to initialize!
24.01 00:30:13 [Server] INFO [2023.01.24-:167][ 0]LogOnline: Display: STEAM: OnlineSubsystemSteam::Shutdown()

Any idea why this is happening?

24.01 00:30:13 [Server] INFO [2023.01.24-00.30.13:383][ 1]LogOnline: Warning: OSS: EOSSDK-LogEOSP2P: NAT Detection failed, unable to resolve host
24.01 00:30:13 [Server] INFO [2023.01.24-00.30.13:817][ 14]LogOnline: Warning: OSS: EOSSDK-LogEOSAnalytics: EOS SDK Analytics disabled for route [1].
24.01 00:30:14 [Server] INFO [2023.01.24-00.30.14:222][ 26]LogOnline: Warning: OSS: EOSSDK-LogEOSEcom: Purchase flow is disabled due to overlay setup failure (EOS_NotConfigured).

Not a clue why this isnt working

[river yew]

"Exception was "SIGSEGV: invalid attempt to write memory at address 0x0000000000000003"" @desert walrus

[desert walrus]

Oh that's more weird, normally the rain/creature crashes are read errors

[surreal anchor]

Anyone with some time mind helping me set up a ded serv? I went through the wiki stuff (with my partner no less) and we did everything in the setup but we still can't get it to work. Got the port forwarding set, but something's got to be wrong in the setup tutorial because it just doesn't work.

feel free to DM me

[wintry meteor]

what OS is the server on

wdym it doesnt work

[surreal anchor]

Windows, followed the windows instructions.

[wintry meteor]

there are 100 ways it could break, which one is happening to you

[surreal anchor]

I'll screeny

Here's the log

Can't find the server so I assume it's not exactly running O_o

[wintry meteor]

what have you tried

also are you sure you need a dedi server?

[surreal anchor]

Ran the steamcmd stuff, since running it from epic, followed all that.

Tried connecting via local IP and then internet IP and couldn't find it either way.

[wintry meteor]

are you just trying to play with your partner when you are both online?

[surreal anchor]

Want it to be up when I'm not playing for partner.

[wintry meteor]

ah ok

well it looks like its online

[surreal anchor]

Then I can do other stuff while they're on server without me having the whole game running

[wintry meteor]

yeah checks out

[surreal anchor]

ahh okay so it's probably me just connecting wrong

[wintry meteor]

very well could be

whats it say in game

[surreal anchor]

Says server isn't running. Tried 192.168.1.100 and tried my internet IP and both ways it says server isn't running when it's up

[wintry meteor]

is 192.168.1.100 your computers IP?

[surreal anchor]

that's the local IP you can use to connect to servers running on your computer normally

But I've used the internet IP too.

[wintry meteor]

if by "your" you mean you specifically then yeah (that IP is different for most people, for instance my server at home is on 192.168.1.201)

[surreal anchor]

Yeah that's what I meant

My actual IP is 46. somthing something

[wintry meteor]

lol yeah

can you screenshot what it says in game?

[surreal anchor]

sure

Gonna do a quick restart now the server isn't even loading up brb

[wintry meteor]

oop wait

no need to do that

you can restart client to fix that, or you can add a random ip as a fake server, then click on that, and then click back to the real server and itll connect you again

[surreal anchor]

Well

Now I can't get the steamcmd one I did stuff with to even .exe load up at all and the ded server on the epic launcher is crashing out. So I guess we'll just have to deal with me loading up the game and leaving it up overnight and stuff like that if she's staying up.

Appreciate the help.

[wintry meteor]

ugh yeah this is a pain

i did something like that for awhile

tbh with how buggy DSes are atm thats probably the better option

[surreal anchor]

Would be nice if I just had another computer I could just leave on all the time XD

[wintry meteor]

lol

[civic lantern]

@surreal anchor Most of the troubles with dedicated server have to be making the server reachable. There's a technology I came across called Zerotier that makes all of that easy. The server and the client have to have the software installed. What it does is give you access to a new network range that works around network security policies, skips having to configure router, etc. It just does what you want and there's no fiddling. Free.

I have a public zerotier (anyone can join) that routes only satisfactory ports. Network ID 8286ac0e4784600a . Or you can just make your own.

[surreal anchor]

oh wow I'll have to check that out

[civic lantern]

It's like a sports car version of reality. Really wowed by it.

what it looks like

if you join your client to that network, the above IP will join you to a server. I'm about to install Blastroid's House on it

and it's not like Uncle Touchy's Puzzle Basement, it's a brilliant playing-around map with the world's worst factory in it https://www.youtube.com/@blastroid7444

[civic lantern]

ok, I'll stop. Last thing I'll say is that zerotier lets you run private DNS so I can give anyone a name in the "fiscit.corp" domain name.

recommend low graphics settings unless you have a supercomputer on your desk

[odd pawn]

is there a way to have my blueprints from one server onto another server? i just switched from a 3rd party host to my 2nd pc as the server and want my blueprints on the server

[surreal anchor]

Blueprints are saved clientside I'm pretty sure. You should be able to copypasta them.

[odd pawn]

tried that but they arent showing up

[steep flume]

IIRC blueprints are definitely on the server

For me it was ~/.config/Epic/FactoryGame/Saved/SaveGames/blueprints/<world-name>

In order to figure out how to move my own blueprints into dedicated, I went and created one BP on the dedicated to get the folder structure to autogenerate

Then just reload save on dedicated after you've uploaded

[reef gull]

So, if I have blueprints on my client, and I join a new or someone else's dedi, do I just get the server's blueprints, the client's blueprints, or both?

Rather intregued here... sorry

[wintry meteor]

just the servers

blueprints on dedi servers are not client side

[civic lantern]

blueprints are saved server-side in ~/.config

the organization scheme is client-side, which is senseless. so you'll have an empty library with headings

[reef gull]

Right, but I wasn't sure if the game would load both client and server blueprints or server... hence my question, but thank you though, much appreciated.

[civic lantern]

that is a very good idea, in fact.

but really there's no reason except for "we didn't do anything to change it" that blueprints are saved server side. i expect it will change

[near rapids]

Need to see your startup parameters

[near rapids]

Did you set up path in service correctly? Not sure how it looks on windows

[frosty gale]

I know I can change the gameport with -port but can I change any of the other ports?

[crude ore]

How can I setup a server for satisfactory

[frosty gale]

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers

[crude ore]

I downloaded satisfactory dedicated servers

Is this enough?

[frosty gale]

Ye but you prob wanna know what ports to portford

[crude ore]

yes

how?

xd

[frosty gale]

All the information you need is in the link i sent

[crude ore]

In which section?

[frosty gale]

Ports are in section 7

[crude ore]

and the address?

where do I get that?

[frosty gale]

That's your ip address

[crude ore]

Ohh

from my PC?

[frosty gale]

Your public ip

Just search "my ip" on google

[crude ore]

ah ok

doesn't work on my friends side

[frosty gale]

Have you opend the ports in your firewall?

[crude ore]

How?

When the firewall message popped out, I accepted that

When I started the dedicated server on epic games, a firewall message popped out and I accepted that

[wintry meteor]

that's probably not enough

type your local ip address into Google; it'll pull up your router settings

[crude ore]

then?

[wintry meteor]

these are different for everyone so root around a bit and see what you can find

[crude ore]

Ok

I got it

then?

[wintry meteor]

something under firewall settings

then port forward 15000 15777 and 7777, all UDP

[crude ore]

wtf

nvm, i dont got it

I search

[pliant spindle]

i have a server with 4 people, me and 1 friend can join, the rest can't. The server managers says "the server appears to be offline", and "servername pending". I have port forwarden 15777 on my netgear orbi router, and have the server running on a proxmox server, with a Debian virtual machine.

Debian 11

me and the other guy are both on our own networks, i am connecting with the server via the WAN address of my home network

[crude ore]

I started the server, but my friend says it's offline

the server

[frosty gale]

I can't connect when using my public ip I am using the port 15777 as portforwarded but the router changes it to another port

[frosty gale]

As my brothers hosts a server using 15777

[pliant spindle]

where is the engine.ini file located?

[scenic rose]

Hello all,

My buddy and I are having issues with our save we started recently. The save file is now 3.2MB, save times are still under 2 seconds, and everything was going great until recently.

Now one, or both of us start getting issues with belts not placing properly and becoming blue or invisible until a server restart. It usually happens within a couple minutes of both of us logging in.

I have ran it as a dedicated server, hosted multi-player, reinstalled the game, verified files, reinstalled my OS, tried 3 different computers, and uploaded the save to the save editor and re-downloaded it just incase that would fix the issue. No dice.

Nothing seems to fix it. I really don't want to abandon this save due to instability. I had to abandon another save due to performance issues a few months ago and I would hate to do it again.

Does anyone have any advice?

[frosty gale]

This is the path for me

E:\SatisServerU7\FactoryGame\Saved\Config\WindowsServer

So ye prob just "FactoryGame\Saved\Config\WindowsServer" for u

if you are running on windows

Otherwise it should be something that looks almost the same

[amber scarab]

hey is it possible to move an offline player? we have someone sitting infront of important stuff and hes offline so we have a problem xD

[wintry meteor]

kill him

[marsh dew]

Does the port number matter when joining through a FQDN? I have my server running on port 42069, but I would like people to join using play.domain.com. I can't seem to get it to work, it just says "Offline".

Managing DNS through cloudflare. Using SRV records. A* wildcard pointing to my server which runs Pterodactyl

I also have '42060' set as that's the default connection used in Pterodactyl server. Not sure which one would be correct to use.

Usually I connect using IP:42069, but unsure when it comes to using a domain instead

[lavish stone]

Anyone having issues with steam to play online ?

[desert walrus]

Nope

[carmine wedge]

Biggest bug me and my friends have experienced so far is anytime you go within a freshly loaded hatcher's hatch radius, immediate game crash

[carmine wedge]

also uh, is there a way to increase the amount of autosaves saved or only frequency?

[analog mortar]

If you play on a dedicated-server yes. You can configure the number of save rotation and the frequency

[carmine wedge]

Odd, I couldn't find the config/console command for number of save rotation

[royal warren]

mob hostility causing crashes is a known issue. simple fix is to disable hostile mobs until the devs get time to fix

[carmine wedge]

Good to know, wasn't sure if it was a known issue or not so I figured I'd mention it

[royal warren]

we should probably 📌 some of the known issues. maybe help people out a bit more

[carmine wedge]

That definitely would be useful for when I come across a bug

[kindred sapphire]

is there any Tutorial how to set up a dedicated sever in your private Lan and make it useable for your friends? My Server is running, but still not reachable for anyone outside. The Session ID is invalid and the properties of the session are set as private... Running it on Windows, but no idea how to fix this issue... Ports are forwarded. Thank you

[desert walrus]

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the servers work.

Those in-game settings only affect multiplayer

You need to set up port forwarding to the server and provide anyone you want to join with your public ip

[kindred sapphire]

even if i invite my buddy, he dont get an invite notification

[desert walrus]

Invites also aren't for dedicated servers

Think of it like a second version of the game that everyone, including you, joins in multiplayer

I'd suggest reading through the guide on the wiki

!wikisearch dedicated+ server

[undone sky]

(which is also kind of how SP works)

[hushed gate]

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Search?query=dedicated+

[undone sky]

its Dedicated_Server for the cmd too

[desert walrus]

It's dedicated+server

!wikisearch dedicated+server

[hushed gate]

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Search?query=dedicated+server

[desert walrus]

I just mistyped

[undone sky]

ihuh, i thought it worked with _ too

!wikisearch dedicated_server

[hushed gate]

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Search?query=dedicated_server

[undone sky]

both work

[river yew]

Over the last 4 days, every time I've logged in, one belt in my nuclear factory has been not working properly, causing underproduction.

[royal warren]

Maybe.... someone is trolling you?

[crisp lark]

Any idea why the linux server just Exits after starting up a session from scratch? Warns a ton about dirty area creation then says "Killed"

[royal warren]

because I see "killed" I think of oomKilled errors
Does the server have enough memory available to it?
Im not sure about others, but for my linux server it sits at ~13 GB of ram after startup on a game with save data.

So, does your server have at least 13GB ram to spare for the server?

[frosty gale]

Hello, can someone help me setup a custom WoW server status bot?

[frosty gale]

Why ignore?

[undone sky]

no response does not necessarily mean you are being ignored

[frosty gale]

I am waiting for answers since yesterday

[undone sky]

only 7 hours - people aren't here 24/7 and may not have the time or ability to answer you

[frosty gale]

Ok

[near rapids]

There's tons on github

[frosty gale]

May you please help me find one?

[fleet silo]

Am I the only one who can't join the multiplayer server if I have SMART! mod enable?

[loud minnow]

Yeah bo@mod support on DS

[desert walrus]

Servers don't have mod support currently

[analog mortar]

Hi do you know if servers have healthcheck command ?

[desert walrus]

Verify can be done through steam or epic, I don't remember the command

[analog mortar]

through steam or epic ?

[desert walrus]

It depends on which platform you have the server through

[analog mortar]

I can simply do pgrep -f UE4Server-Linux-Shipping but I am not convinced

are you talking about dedicated server ?

[desert walrus]

Yes

[analog mortar]

I use steam

[desert walrus]

Which version? The tool or the one through steamcmd

[analog mortar]

I use docker with the image wolveix/satisfactory-server:latest
so I don't directly use steamcmd, but if I run steamcmd in the container I have:
Steam Console Client (c) Valve Corporation - version 1669935972

[desert walrus]

Use the validate command with steam cmd

[analog mortar]

??

there is no validate cmd

[desert walrus]

steamcmd validate satisfactory

[analog mortar]

I enter in a steam shell when I do that

and I'm not sure the command validate exist

[merry thunder]

anyone knows how can I make a dedicated server using that 4gb epic games one

[desert walrus]

!wikisearch dedicated+server

[hushed gate]

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Search?query=dedicated+server

[halcyon tartan]

Invite friends is not working and Im locked to Private, Can comeone help with my dedicated server?

[desert walrus]

Those two options are not applicable to dedicated servers

[sand galleon]

My server kept crashing whenever we happened to be doing big things (ie. deletions, Blueprints, etc.) while the server was simultaneously saving, leading to lost work. I thought, "If only we knew when the server was about to save, this wouldn't be a problem..."

So I wrote a Discord bot to do just that! 😄
https://github.com/lilkingjr1/ADA-Discord-Bot

First off, I hope this isn't considered advertising; if it is, I'll remove it promptly. I just thought I'd post it here for anyone who might find it useful, and I honestly could care less about how many people actually end up using it because I wrote it for myself.

I know there's a couple bots out there already named "ADA", but I honestly couldn't think of a different creative name. The other bots specialize in various things like calculations, etc, but AFAIK, none of them do save warnings. My bot can also notify of server crashes. Feel free to read the README for more details if you're interested 🙂

[novel yarrow]

Sounds interesting, I'm gonna try this, thx

My servers do not crash, they might be at some point as I'm adding more and more objects.
Default save time interval and autosave number is also modified to avoid too frequent saves: 20 mins / 6 autosaves

[sand galleon]

Yeh, it really only became a problem for us when our save got larger. But even before then, we wished we could be warned before the save lag (even if it was short) in case we were flying or fighting something.

[novel yarrow]

At what save size it's crashing?

[sand galleon]

8.6 MB

[novel yarrow]

Mine's are 4,37 MB / 2,58 MB / 1,98 MB

Have You adjusted UE4 object limit and network bandwidth settings on a server and all the clients?

[sand galleon]

We're not hitting the object limit, and network setting is set to the highest. We only crashed while it was saving / about to save, and it was only when we were messing around with the Blueprint creator or deleting large amounts of objects. Our save times take approximately 30-40 sec. now to complete, so just having the bot warning instead of being confusingly frustrated at surprise lag has been nice for us.

[granite lynx]

Did you place a blueprint inside a blueprint designer?

I heard that that can cause crashes

[carmine wedge]

Does anyone have a guide/message here which explains increasing the amount of autosaves which are cycled through, I know how to increase frequency but any tutorial I found on increasing number of autosaves wasn't helpful

[novel yarrow]

FG.AutoSaveInterval 1200
makes them every 20 mins

/home/steam/SatisfactoryDedicatedServer/FactoryGame/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/Engine.ini
[/Script/FactoryGame.FGSaveSession]
mNumRotatingAutosaves=6

gives You 6 autosaves

[carmine wedge]

Awesome ty

Been trying to figure out how to increase the autosaves in cycle for awhile so this helps a lot ^^

[novel yarrow]

To answer this question, yes - copy blueprints from "old" server to "new" server into correct location eg. /home/steam/.config/Epic/FactoryGame/Saved/SaveGames/blueprints/, set up correct permissions eg. chown -R steam:steam /home/steam/.config/Epic/FactoryGame/Saved/SaveGames/blueprints/ then restart SFDS. I just did that and it works.

[carmine wedge]

I can't find these lines in the config file, and I also use Windows rather than Linux

I attempted placing the lines in the config you directed me to except it doesn't seem to do anything

I also set up using the Steam download am trying to figure out if I'm just an idiot or if I'm having a genuine bug

My Engine.ini file:

[novel yarrow]

Just add these 2 lines at end of file.

[carmine wedge]

Alright I'll try again and check my spelling again, might've missed a / like a dummy lol

Yup, missed the s at the end of saves

Thanks

Love when it's one of those things that your mind just glosses over lmao

[novel yarrow]

This is how it looks like when You're hosting 4 dedicated servers along with 2 gaming VMs to play on single system.

[carmine wedge]

Damn

Definitely loves to eat your RAM

[ionic river]

do dedicated servers force an auto restart? i know ue4 has a limit of a few days for max uptime before running into issues due to time being stored as a float instead of a double.

[desert walrus]

Every 24h

You'd think they'd just use an unsigned long lol

[ionic river]

is the game being ported to ue5? that is apparently fixed/changed in it

[desert walrus]

Unknown

[near rapids]

Does uploaded save needs some kinda special treatment since it doesn't load it automatically after server restart?

[novel yarrow]

If You have empty field "session name" then it won't load automatically.

[near rapids]

Hmm,I'll check it out later. Thanks

[reef snow]

really wish theyd get the little bugs and crashes fixed for dedicated servers- games not even good when you crash and bug out like this

[reef girder]

Anyone know how to get blueprints from external sources to work on DS? Our server is on a hosting platform so we dont have access to the hardware.

[leaden summit]

if you have access to ftp, upload your blueprints to /home/steam/.config/Epic/FactoryGame/Saved/SaveGames/blueprints/{session_name}

[near rapids]

It is empty

[spice heart]

how make server work

[warm fable]

If i wanted to put a ded server on my dsm nas would i have to use docker?

[novel yarrow]

Correctly forward outgoing ports. Try if it's reachable on LAN first.

[novel yarrow]

In case of Synology DSM 7 You have several options: Docker container, Virtual Machine manager.

[warm fable]

tysm

[novel yarrow]

Please note that Synology has to have x86_64 compatible CPU.

[warm fable]

Ok i will keep that in mind thats for the help my guy

[nimble sapphire]

Also check how much memory you have, you need like 13+gigs to run this as well as the CPU has to be fast enough, those DSM are usually fairly limited

[novel yarrow]

It ain't gonna work...

[warm fable]

oh fuck

[desert walrus]

There are SBCs with more computational power than that

You need about 10x that performance

[warm fable]

What's an SBC

[desert walrus]

One of these

It has almost identical processing power to that system

[daring wind]

Hey folks, I am interested in paying for a dedicated server with one of my save files and want to know if there is a most-recommended service I can use? I want it hosted 24/7 as well as in an accessible manner so I can choose different save files for the server to run at any given time.

[novel yarrow]

No known recommended hosting company unless You pay for entire dedicated server or host on Your own hardware.

[daring wind]

This is an option, I just don't think hosting it on my own machine at home was ideal for my situation.

[novel yarrow]

MiniITX builds exists. Even DDR3 system can handle SF DS better than most of these hostings. And You have full control over what's happening.

[daring wind]

So I guess that I want something with like 24-32GB of RAM and a decent CPU to run the dedicated server. Now I guess I should find a place that sells these for a monthly fee and how to install the satisfactory dedicated server on there with ftp access for the save file(s) etc.

[novel yarrow]

I prefer console mode, but try: linuxgsm.com/servers/ along with webmin.com. OVH has "game" range bare-metal servers.

[near rapids]

Kimsufi (ovh) has got some cheap servers

[daring wind]

@near rapids The configuration of one of these servers is my concern. Is there a good guide related to setting up a dedicated satisfactory server on them?

[near rapids]

There are few methods how to setup. Depending how you want it

[civic lantern]

If you have a spare machine, it's definitely the cheapest option. There are many hosts that will give you a server that runs satisfactory, but I find their base packages they advertise are insufficient, eg coming with only 4gb of RAM. The game boots, but that's about it. RAM upgrades are where they push the price higher, generally to the point where a $30 AWS instance will serve you better

@daring wind I wrote a howto on reddit about this. https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/zsgod8/nononsense_nofail_dedicated_server_build/ if you skip the bits about setting up docker in the end it's less than 10 commands. You can skip using zerotier, but then you have the job of reconfiguring your router to let your friends reach the machine

[amber scarab]

Permanently happening on dedicated

i have no blueprint designer only blueprints 😄 so it must be the blueprints themself

[white prairie]

If this guys reply fits the description for your dedicated server, it may be more useful.
It's not blueprint designer lol
https://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/520519298690718876/#c3200369647715012882

[tardy moss]

so i was running a dedicated server on windows server 2016 without any issues for over a month and now i closed the server and restarted it and its giving me steam errors saying it cant find the steam or that its still running (the log says to run with -NOSTEAM but that doesnt work) anyone have any clue what the issue is

steam is not running btw

gonna restart my server in a bit to see if that helps but it has some stuff still running right now

[novel yarrow]

I was unable to start my test dedics, though it was my network issue. Looks like Steam having bad day then. Same issue, could not update App.

[tardy moss]

updating works for me and the steam api starts and closes without any issues'

does seem like it could be a online issue

line 134

[novel yarrow]

More likely: LogModuleManager: Warning: ModuleManager: Unable to load module 'D3D11RHI' - 0 instances of that module name found. --> do You have: FactoryServer.exe -log -unattended ?

[tardy moss]

yeah

its setup as
"B:\Hosting\SatisfactoryServer\FactoryServer.exe" -log -unattended

and always worked like that

dont mind the typo's im retyping it

on a bad keyboard

[novel yarrow]

I see also EOSSDK-LogHttp: 0000020787175A40: libcurl info message cache 9 (SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate) which is EOS issue.

[tardy moss]

its always showed EOS errors but it worked

dont have any epic things

installed it through steamcmd

[novel yarrow]

https: api.epicgames.dev/sdk/v1/default?platformId=WIN does this link open for You on a server, it should be JSON file

[tardy moss]

can check in a couple minutes its busy restarting right now

[tardy moss]

where would that JSON be?

[novel yarrow]

Just check if URL opens

[tardy moss]

yeah no issue

got the JSON

and steam is sending the shutdown

not EOS

[tardy moss]

and restarting did nothing btw

[novel yarrow]

Have You tried adding -DisablePacketRouting switch?

[tardy moss]

how would i do that?

i just tried restarting steam because it worked before didnt touch any satisfactory settings yet

[novel yarrow]

FactoryServer.exe -log -unattended -DisablePacketRouting

[tardy moss]

doesnt work

could it be skipping the arguments because i put it as "B:\Hosting\SatisfactoryServer\FactoryServer.exe" -log -unattended

i can try "B:\Hosting\SatisfactoryServer\FactoryServer.exe -log -unattended"

no that does nothing

[tawdry rapids]

So, I have a question. I have a blade server that I run in my home where I host a MP server for Satisfactory. Is there a way that I can run that modded at all?

[tardy moss]

you should check the modded discord for that but as far as i know the mod launcher hasnt been released for dedicated

might be at this point tho

[tawdry rapids]

@tardy moss I didn't see one in the list of channels. Is that on a different Discord server?

[tardy moss]

yeah

its not from the satisfactory devs but te mod launcher dev's i believe

[tawdry rapids]

Understood, thanks for the clarification.

[desert walrus]

AFAIK no

[halcyon tartan]

My game runs on gportal and has no mods. Ive tried all 3 graphic API. Its continually crashing on all 3 of the players machines. Unreal errors every time. Anyone have a fix.?

[tardy moss]

what error?

[tardy moss]

maybe try contacting gportal

[halcyon tartan]

@tardy moss unhandled exception: exception_access_violation reading address 0xffffffffffffffff

[tardy moss]

not sure how to hekp with that maybe someone else here does but sounds like a issue with gportal to me (not that i know for sure)

[tardy moss]

i found my issue and i dont understand it but it works now

when i tried to run the server from rd client on my phone it doesnt seem to work but rdp from windows runs it just fine

nvm got it

[warm night]

Been running a dedicated server locally on windows at home for family for quite a while without any major issues. Had a crash last night (happens occasionally with latest update) but now the server won't start up. Whenever I launch it from a batch with -log -unattended, it starts up, I get some logging (200k+ lines) and then it exits. Did a diff of the log against an older log from when it was running fine and one thing that stood out up at the top of the log is "LogOnline: Warning: OSS: EOSSDK-LogEOSOverlay: Swapchain detour failed to create swap chain using d3d11, Result=0x887a0022". Not sure if that's related to it immediately exiting or not. Was looking for any pointers about what to look for in the log or any common culprits.

[heavy nimbus]

You're a lifesaver. I-DiablePacketRouting was the command I've been looking for to get my server working. Thank you!

[tardy moss]

if you started it through remote desktop it might be the same issue i had try it again through remote desktop from a windows pc that made it run for me without issue's

[warm night]

Been trying it through remote desktop from another windows PC and also on the dedicated server PC itself directly. Same result either way.

[tardy moss]

than its not the same issue i had

sorry idk then

[warm night]

Solved my own issue. Turned out to be an old scheduled task that somehow got reenabled that was causing problems.

[frosty gale]

hey,
my server is running and my port are open but it say that the server is offline

[scarlet bear]

I am able to connect to my dedicated server locally. However when I have a friend try to connect (from a different IP) I have the notAuthenticated error. I have checked, and double checked that I am forwarding ports 7777, 15000, and 15777. They are all forwarded as TCP/UDP. I did however notice that when word-searching though the console that opes up, "15777" does not get mentioned. Whereas the server announces its listening on the other two ports.

[near hollow]

can someone help me with that error?

FYI: Previous Answers to that Error are not working for me... like: -mulithome=x.x.x.x or -DisablePacketRouting

Also changed Game.ini and Engine.ini because of Timeout rate.

[novel yarrow]

UDP only, it means ports aren't forwarded correctly. Add -DisablePacketRouting and check again.

[scarlet bear]

have already done that to no avail, It seems my network is "CG-NAT" which prevents it from port forwarding at all. Thanks for the response.

[novel yarrow]

Carrier-grade NAT. Wiki info: *Carrier-grade NAT usually prevents the ISP customers from using port forwarding, because the network address translation (NAT) is usually implemented by mapping ports of the NAT devices in the network to other ports in the external interface. *

[civic lantern]

Zerotier or tailscale will work around that

[near hollow]

no solution for this?

[novel yarrow]

Shouldn't You be connecting to 15777/udp?

[remote tulip]

@near hollow I have DM'd you url links with some portforwarding work arounds with CGNAT.

But I also use port 15777. Just a reminder need to forward ports tcp and udp on server and router.

[civic lantern]

udp only. on my zerotier i block tcp entirely, works fine

[near hollow]

i did forward.. it connects to 15777 and sometimes to 7777

fyi: its a VPS Server

i dont host this on my machine

ports are forwarded on the linux machine

[remote tulip]

when you say sometimes does that mean you have to switch ports because sometimes one wont connect?

[near hollow]

no i dont have to. i dont know why but in that error message it says 15777 or 7777

changes what ive noticed

[remote tulip]

try opening custom ports and and use those.

[civic lantern]

@near hollow you need ports open at the firewall, not forwarded ON the linux machine. do you have shell on the box?

[frosty gale]

My port 15777 is alredy used for another satisfactory server on another pc can I somehow change it or reroute it?

[remote tulip]

@frosty gale open new ports and use those

[frosty gale]

But I coulden't find where to change what port the server uses

Or I could find 2 of them but not the 15777

[remote tulip]

1 sec i think i found a solution for u

I'll DM you the link

[frosty gale]

ye thx

[civic lantern]

@near hollow if you install ngrep on the server, you can watch for the packet.

[remote tulip]

Okay.. I'm experiencing multiple server crashes per day and am in some long needed assistance. I have provided that last 3 logs.

[desert walrus]

Either rain or creature related, probably creatures

[frosty gale]

Still don't know how to redirect it

[desert walrus]

Rain crash is server side, creature crash is client

[remote tulip]

@ amanda if you want you can call me and I can try to better explain it with screen share

[remote tulip]

are you using linux or windows?

[frosty gale]

Windows

[remote tulip]

@desert walrus only happens after dismantling

[desert walrus]

Oh that's weird

Doubtfull you can do anything about it untill it gets patched

[remote tulip]

But I believe in you man.. You got this. 🙂

[near hollow]

yes

[civic lantern]

try my tip to confirm packets are arriving at the server. you test it from outside the server's network

[near hollow]

they do

[civic lantern]

all 3 ports, you have seen the packets arrive

[near hollow]

yes because you can choose to set a different port in server manager ribht?

and the server always responds that i try to get something

for all 3 ports

[civic lantern]

i've never seen the server manager offer a different port number. maybe diddling a config file will do that.

however

[near hollow]

i can use a different port

you dont have to leave it with 15777 😄

[civic lantern]

if you didn't have to stop the game server to do this test, then the game server did not bind those ports.

[near hollow]

weird is, that the server stops when i get that error

[civic lantern]

oh wait, that is incorrect.

[near hollow]

i check the shell the whole time

[civic lantern]

when your client pings the server you will see a lot of traffic flow over ngrep

ngrep . 'udp and (port 15777 or port 7777 or port 15000)'

[near hollow]

i start the server everything loadfs fine

then i create the world all good

[civic lantern]

i wouldn't try switching ports until you confirm it's working

ok

[near hollow]

after i try to connect it loads a little bit then suddenly it stops and the server stops also

i am trying to use docker now also

but server is not online..

i mean, server is offline in server manager somehow

[civic lantern]

that would suggest the server crashed

how much memory is on it

logs say anything? are you sure it's still running?

[near hollow]

7gig

[near hollow]

yes server is running but factoryserver.sh stops u know?

[civic lantern]

for a new map that ought to be okay. I don't know what factoryserver.sh is

however if it doesn't fork the server into the background it should stay running

otherwise the server is a zombie

[near hollow]

nah its all good

when i create the map AND DONT JOIN the server everything is fine

then i load into the server and after a few secs it kicks me and gives me the error

after that the server is offline

[civic lantern]

yeah, that's a server crash. is this based on linuxgsm?

because you should be able to do ./sfserver console and watch it go

my first thought is file permissions, like the user the server is running as doesn't have the ability to write to the filesystem the server runs in

if you're not using linuxgsm you really should

[near hollow]

couldnt do it with sudo

[civic lantern]

it's 3 commands to a running box

[near hollow]

had to create a user that runs

[civic lantern]

so perhaps i'm right.

made a new user and installed the game therein?

[near hollow]

sudo was not allowed to run the thing

[civic lantern]

you have a vps and no root? time for a new vps

[near hollow]

i hjave vps with root

[civic lantern]

"couldn't do it with sudo"

linuxgsm.com/servers/sfserver/

[near hollow]

it said root is not allowed

[civic lantern]

if you are root, you don't have to sudo

[near hollow]

i meant root sorry

[civic lantern]

wat

[near hollow]

when i try to start the FactoryServer.sh with root user it says root is not allowed

[civic lantern]

ah, yes, that is expected, they are forcing you to do the sensible thing and run it unnprivileged

may i suggest that you burn that install to the ground and follow the linuxgsm recipe. you install dependencies as one line, make a new user, switch into them, and run three commands to get to a running server

[near hollow]

ok

[civic lantern]

Dependencies tab and then Install tab on the above url

./sfserver backrub might even make the wait pleasant (jk)

then you can proceed to bust the working install by moving ports, installing mods, etc

but don't recommend

ignore the bits about gamedig, doesn't support sf

[civic lantern]

tfwhat

try their full advice. adduser sfserver su - sfserver then that line

[near hollow]

i did

i have that user

[civic lantern]

as root, try 'touch x'

ls -l

[near hollow]

ok sec

[civic lantern]

you are not that user in the above screenshot

[civic lantern]

the warning is highly relevant. maybe you did "useradd" which is a different command. to fix: mkdir /home/sfserver and chown -R sfserver /home/sfserver

[near hollow]

nope i did adduser

but yes

somehow the dir was missing i think

worked

/home/sfserver was missing

[civic lantern]

odd

[civic lantern]

normally adduser asks a bunch of questions. after you set a password the rest is just 'press enter'

[near hollow]

yes u mean like name fullname etc

and password

i did all that stuff before

[civic lantern]

back as root, there are some deps to install. look on the linuxgsm dependencies page

[near hollow]

ok sorry one sec

[civic lantern]

command for debian, ubuntu, centos

or give it sudo rights, but this is the only reason to

or ya, it just gave the command there

[near hollow]

but its stuck there rn

[civic lantern]

let it run, it seems to do nothing then dumps a bunch of output

[near hollow]

cant see the server in the browser

did i forget something=?

same error...

[near hollow]

wow.....

bought a server from nitrado

same error here

my friend can connect without a problem

oh wait

now im in wtf

[civic lantern]

I just tried the above server on the port 15777 and it doesn't connect either.

on the server, "curl ipv4.canhazip.com"

[near hollow]

yes cause its offline

[civic lantern]

ah. well.

[near hollow]

the above one always stops

when i get that error

[civic lantern]

i do wonder if 7 gb is too small, and what the console would have to say

[near hollow]

hmm

manual says 12gb

but im not sure if thats the problem

doesnt look like memory problem tho

[civic lantern]

sfserver console will have the full log. you can scroll back with ctrl-B and pgup

[desert walrus]

It absolutely is

The server won't start with less than 10 often

[near hollow]

the server starts

but when i connect it loads a while

then kicks me out

[civic lantern]

and i do agree on that. my server has 24, so i can yoink 16 out and see what goes wrong, but i kind of expect it to fail

[desert walrus]

It doesn't have enough memory space to actually run a save

[near hollow]

ye makes sense...

thanks for your help guys!

[civic lantern]

i was unaware the manual says 12

[near hollow]

12 or 16 not sure

[civic lantern]

they don't put things in manuals for nothing

[near hollow]

but i read like 7 or 8 should work also

si i thought lets give it a try

[desert walrus]

12 min, 16 reccomended for anything reasonably sized

[desert walrus]

That was for previous updates

[civic lantern]

i would go with what the manual says, every time

[near hollow]

and all those hosting prvider give you servers for min 10 slots

thats too much for us..

[civic lantern]

it's to upsell you on more RAM, I got suckered by some german host that way

[near hollow]

yes thats stupid

now we play 12€ for 30 days of fun

[civic lantern]

enjojy

[near hollow]

😛

ty

[nimble sapphire]

memory in this game server spikes when the first person connects, after that it decreases in my experience. If you dont have enough for that spike, it errors out and then crashes

[viscid light]

anybody know where the saved game is stored on a dedicated server? I've gone through all the files and can't find it yet it shows in my load save options

all I can find is the save I uploaded myself.

[remote tulip]

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\FactoryGame\Saved

"Admin" is the username on my server so that will be different for you

Anyone know how to Fix FGRainOcclusionActor from crashing server?

[nimble sapphire]

This is where I find mine, its a docker running on linux
"Satisfactory\.config\Epic\FactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames"

[viscid light]

ya..I guess it depends on the host. I am using a host and couldn't find it. Their support assisted me.

basically same spot.. config\epic\ ... same as you it looks like

[novel yarrow]

There is no fix for "rain" crash yet. It's all in DS code.

[whole pivot]

Hey I know I am a bit late but, is there a good link to fix the friends only bug or a good way to manipulate the SAV file to fix it?

[desert walrus]

Friends only bug?

[whole pivot]

When you start up a dedicated server on steam and cannot it from private to invite friends.

[desert walrus]

That setting doesn't affect dedicated servers

[civic lantern]

you have to push a hole through your firewall or use an edge vpn and direct them to the server IP. none of the friends stuff works with dedicated server. it's not a bug, it never worked.

[desert walrus]

It wasn't supposed to

Even if the dedicated server is hosted on your machine it is not and never was a part of the game client

[frosty gale]

can you host a dedicated server on the internet

and what does it cost

[jovial veldt]

Running into this one when I try to connect to my server via the public IP. I can access it via local network IP. Port routing seems to be correct through the modem as I have other games set up and functioning. No port conflicts either from what I'm seeing. I'm probably missing something obvious here.

[civic lantern]

Yes. You can do it at hosting providers like Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure, or use game-focused hosed like Indifferent Broccoli

[frosty gale]

Im looking for something as cheap as possible

[civic lantern]

Expect to pay USD 20-40 a month. If you have a spare computer, even an older one, it's easy to set up at home so that other people can reach it, despite what it looks like in here

[frosty gale]

Is it possible to import my current saves/worlds into the server

[civic lantern]

@jovial veldt if your server is running now, I can try to connect to it. If you are on linux, you can install 'ngrep' and use the command "ngrep . udp" and you will see incoming traffic and outgoing replies

yes

[frosty gale]

I need a VPS server right?

[civic lantern]

no

however, if you want to upload blueprints you need access to the underlying filesystem. you can manage saves right in the satisfactory server manager built into the game

[jovial veldt]

Windows server, and thanks. Yes it's running right now I'm connected to it via local IP.

[civic lantern]

i'm sure there's packet sniffers for windows, i just use windows as little as possible

[jovial veldt]

Understandable, I'm just more familiar with it =\

[civic lantern]

for all i know, the linux subsystem lets you run ngrep

@frosty gale watch out for people like zap-hosting who offer a server starting at $5. I used them personally and found it had enough memory to start, and then do nothing else. Upgrades to ram are the most expensive, but I think it stayed under $20 a month. I didn't stay with them, though

they also offer FTP access, I notice, which means you can upload blueprints

I was just at their site and they offered a -50% coupon ZSwuVcH51 🤷‍♂️

[jovial veldt]

Is that you trying to connect? I'm seeing some activity.

[civic lantern]

no

[jovial veldt]

ah maybe just normal stuff then. I'm not familiar with what all it spits out

[civic lantern]

a heckalot. if someone puts the server IP into the server manager it pings the server, gets the name, etc

[jovial veldt]

"IsAwake isAwake = ture" =D What

[civic lantern]

they can't even fix spelling errors in the game, never mind the source

every time I see Shennanigans [sic] I die a little

there's others

[frosty gale]

what are the specs you recommend for the server? @civic lantern

[civic lantern]

16 gb of RAM will be enough for a larger game. 12 is minimal. The devs recommend a 3.4ghz CPU, no particular # of cores.

[novel yarrow]

#screenshots message
These 12 dedicated servers with average save loaded each were deployed on a total 54 threads and around 120GB RAM.

[feral shuttle]

It’s probly a stupid ideer but just wonder since the normal satisfactory servers have some much probly would it be better if I just use my old pc + my epic game acc just to use it like a lobby with my friends woud cost some performance but woud have not So many issues

[civic lantern]

it's not a bad ideer, a satisfactory server is easily built in a docker and if you use the various edge VPN's that are available the network configuration work is nonexistent. just have enough ram.

[civic lantern]

Your server shows two players. So it’s fine ?

[near elk]

Yeah

[late dew]

Playing on a dedicated server again. I've done it before without crashes but now I'm crashing from time to time. Furthermore, whenever I crash it seems that wipes me from the server and when I reconnect I spawn in as a new player and I lose all my items etc. I can find my avatar in the game and revive but then it just continues running. So I've got no way to recover my items which is kinda annoying as I just lost a hard drive because of it. Anyone else who's run into this issue? Any known fixes? Or should I post this somewhere for Coffe Stain to look at?

[civic lantern]

hit your character with a basher, it will drop everything in a crate.

what are the specs of your server. if your factory has grown past a certain size and your server has not enough ram, it will crash.

is your client signed into steam?

because if it's not you will keep getting a new character

[carmine wedge]

Same thing goes for if you originally set up with both Steam and Epic

Dif char if you only sign in with one

[civic lantern]

@late dew ^

[late dew]

Only ever used it through steam, and I've checked to make sure it's still only connected to steam. I can't hit the avatars with my basher either, they're unkillable

It's through the same provider and the same size, and we've just started so doubt it's an issue with ram

Only happens when I crash as well, restarting wont give me a new character

[carmine wedge]

If you have access to the save files, might be a good idea to access the save files and toss it into the Satisfactory Calculator to just edit it if it isn't a reoccurring issue

[late dew]

Might have access to the save files, but I've crashed 3 times today and gotten a new character every time. Didn't happen at all yesterday for 6 hours of play

I was using the same server provider during update 5 with 0 issues. Even the same server/payment plan so the only thing that's changed is the game. Unless they've skimped on the servers but that seems kinda weird

Update; After restarting the server I was able to get a crate at least. Not the one with the hard drive but at least I didn't have to remake yet another pair of blade runners

Update #2; seems there was a server issue and restarting it seemed to have fixed the issue. I've now found my other body and was able to kill it so i got all my items back!

[civic lantern]

I can't imagine why crashing, as opposed to exiting clean, would cause a save file you've already made to change behaviour on next load. You're the only one who crashes? Try verifying your game files?

oh ok

yeah, if you can't kill your character that's a "reboot everything and it will work better" kind of problem

[near rapids]

Can try to disable enemies

[void warren]

i keep getting crashes - [2023.01.31-03.27.10:249][923]LogD3D12RHI: ~FD3D12DynamicRHI

And like win requestexit

Anyone have any ideas how i might fix that

Its running on a 9900k with 64gb of 3200mhz ram

And a 2080ti if that matters at all

[royal warren]

can you upload your server logs to paste bin or something? hard for me to help with that error message

[high parcel]

Can someone help me

?

[tiny cape]

The easiest way to resolve this one would be to close the game, force-save and reboot the game server, then re-launch the game.

That's how I normally resolve this problem on my game server.

[spare dome]

already did that

[tiny cape]

hmmm... new game server?

[spare dome]

i just rented it today he has problems to join i can join another friend can to

[tiny cape]

ahh, so you're not running locally with port forwarding then.

[spare dome]

nope rented it on nitrado

[tiny cape]

alrighty then - It might be worth contacting their support department then and seeing if there's any port forwarding or firewall alterations that need to be made to allow the server to communicate out. That's about the only thing really that could prevent the server from being visible on the game clients besides your PC's forewalls blocking the connection attempt.

[spare dome]

yeah but i can join and another firend to

he is the only one who has this problem

[tiny cape]

hmmm. So you can access it or join games hosted by friends, but your friend can't join you / this server?

[spare dome]

yeah he cant join but we can

i noticed the error says port 24803 but the port is 24802

and 24802 is what he used

[tiny cape]

hmmm

could be worth removing and re-adding the server to make sure the port isn't mistyped

[spare dome]

we are trying to port forward it now on his router

[tiny cape]

besides that, the only other thing that could stop them joining is their PC's firewall. Especially if they have an alternative antivirus installed like McAffee with a firewall built in, this can prevent the game communicating outwards.

[spare dome]

bc it was not windows firewall

[tiny cape]

What's his network type set to in Windows?

Public or private?

[spare dome]

Public i think

[tiny cape]

Needs to be on Private or the firewall will be more restrictive by default.

[spare dome]

nope didnt work

[high parcel]

Didn't work some advise?

I have the network settings on private now

[tiny cape]

hmmm... Another thing you could try is to open start > search for Allow an app through Windows firewall, then look to see if FactoryGame-Win64-Shipping.exe or Satisfactory is in that list.

If it isn't, click Change settings and click Browse.

Navigate to your steamapps folder and go to \common\Satisfactory\Engine\Binaries\Win64, then select FactoryGame-Win64-Shipping.exe from that list and click OK

Once this is done, tick the boxes for Public and Private and this will create entries in your firewall specifically for the game itself and should allow all traffic from the game to exit your PC.

steamapps will generally be located under C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\Steam\ or wherever your Steam application is installed / wherever you have set your library folders to store to.

[high parcel]

I try it wait

[tiny cape]

Might also be an idea too, while you're in the game directory to add the FactoryGame executable under \common\satisfactory into that list while you're at it

that one's only a launcher but still doesn't really hurt anything to add it.

[high parcel]

Didn't work

[tiny cape]

darn. Do you have any antivirus software installed by any chance?

If so, theck to see if it has a firewall.

[spare dome]

No he doesnt have any antivirus

[tiny cape]

alright - in that case, unless it's his network blocking it which isn't mega likely, the only other thing I can think of doing would be to try outright disabling the firewall. If he can access the server like that, then you need to add ports 15777, 7777 and 15000 to the firewall for UDP traffic.

[near rapids]

Had same issues yesterday on my local server, only way to fix it was to load world in single player and then upload back to server. Tried everything before, constant timeout for some reason

[tiny cape]

Weird one...

[river sand]

@spare dome Does this also cause everyone to be kicked off the server and then the server restarts?

[spare dome]

why should it restart?

he just cant join me and another friend can join

[river sand]

thought it might related to something I am having problems with that's why I asked.

[spare dome]

yeah no he just cant join thats the only problem

[wind forge]

How does this dedicated server thing work? I got a free one off epic but do I need to do something with it before it will work?

[tiny cape]

Yep - You have to do some basic setup work to get it to launch, but it's not too difficult. The most challenging bit would be setting up port forwarding to let your friends connect if you host it locally. https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers

[wind forge]

Omg think I'll just not......

[tidal folio]

is there a way to make a server for free?

[desert walrus]

If you have a machine to host it on

[kindred garden]

My server keeps crashing while starting. Apparently due to steamclient.so not existing. Does somebody have a tip for me?

Log: https://pastebin.com/KNKTkfbx

[shy pivot]

I need backup my game save file, but I can't find it. I check internet, tried, but nothing helped. I'm using linux debian 11

[hollow breach]

Did you try searching for the file by name? I recall my saves being lost in the depths of a proton prefix

[edgy pasture]

Is there a reason I can only connect to the server randomly? I often have to hit reconnect 3-7 times before it will work

[shy pivot]

I tried, but they didn't find

[hollow breach]

It might be under a factorygame directory

[modern scroll]

What is this caused by (Crash)?

[shy pivot]

can you explain that. I don't understand

[near rapids]

Really depends what config path you set up when installed server

Usually it's home/serveruser/.config

[shy pivot]

there is no .config

[near rapids]

What's in .steam folder

[near rapids]

How did you installed it?

Any other users in home directory?

[shy pivot]

no. The only one that starts the server

[hollow breach]

Try doing a search for directories named "factorygame" or your game save's file name from the root directory "/". It could be that it didn't get installed under the user directory.

[woven berry]

is there any server that i can join?

[hushed gate]

Hello there totally awesome user! You can checkout #looking-for-group-old and check the pins on how to find folks to play with. <3

[shy pivot]

What are these files? Maybe this is the server save.

[near rapids]

Those are your save files, single player most likely?

[novel yarrow]

Guys, I advise You upgrade Your hosts and guests to linux kernel 6.x branch, if both supports it.
I'm getting significant improvement in performance of DS.
As example, I was getting tick 10-12 on 18MB save, now it's 18-20. On the same hardware/settings.
I'm gonna test this on older hardware ASAP.
#off-topic-tech message

Even save times are better:
LogGame: World Serialization (save): 54.480 seconds
LogGame: Compression: 5.226 seconds
LogGame: Write To Disk: 0.059 seconds
LogGame: Write Backup to Disk and Cleanup time: 0.060 seconds
LogGame: Total Save Time took 59.770 seconds

[near rapids]

Will do, thanks

[marsh dew]

Nice. Updating to 6.1.9 right now myself and will report back once I test it a bit

[novel yarrow]

Bare-metal server with Xeon E5-1650 v2 @ 3.5GHz:
kernels 4.x-5.x - tickrate up to 12
VM on Xeon E5-1650 v2 (12c):
kernel 6.1.6 - tickrate 12 on the same save

So not always it may help, but You have a chance.

[marsh dew]

I’m running bare metal E3-1270v3 so we’ll see

[near rapids]

You must have massive builds if tickrate so small

[novel yarrow]

That's @mint junco save, ~660k objects, thanks for sharing btw But I have no other large saves for performance tuning/testing..

[loud minnow]

Yeah my tick is always above 60 default is 30 but I am on a 3950x lol

[near rapids]

mines 120ish if ingame showing correct

[loud minnow]

yeah unlocked im well above that but there is no benefit really going above from 30 tick rate as the game was develop with that in mind going lower is bad but going higher does nothing really

[unique swan]

Quick question could I get a couple servers hosting sites recommendations?

[novel yarrow]

Sadly, none due high requirements of the engine. Better host on own HW.

Have You got any performance gains coming from kernel update? I'm currently running 3 saves, all online in the background and still can play on any of them using the same host as client, without slowdowns. It wasn't possible before.

[unique swan]

I’m new to server stuff. What’s own HW?

[molten fiber]

As in use your own hardware (server)

I haven't played dedicated since it was first released. I'm extremely pleased how much better it runs now. We were lucky to see 40 tick rate and now we're well over 100. FWIW I am running it on my own hardware. Bare metal its a dual 32 core epyc custom build, full m.2 solid state with 256mg ram - running esxi 7 - then we have an ubuntu 22 vm (set with 16 vcpu 96gb ram) that runs dockers (we have 16 various game servers running in dockers) - the satisfactory docker is allocated 400% cpu (total compute is 64000) and 16gb ram. https://i.imgur.com/T93NO2I.jpeg

[humble reef]

This may be the wrong area to ask, but is there mod support for dedicated?

[molten fiber]

I was wondering the same thing coming back to play with U7. This is what I found - I have not delved any further into the tool listed in that post though. https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/z45xvr/is_adding_mods_to_a_dedicated_server_possible/ looks like there's a discord dedicated to modding for Satisfactory.

[humble reef]

Yeah that's all I've found as well

Thanks for the reply

[viscid jewel]

is there any differences from dedicated server on linux vs windows? not performance as i realize linux performs better in general but actual game differences.

[novel yarrow]

There is, I have sheet somewhere.

[viscid jewel]

ty for response, guess i need to look into transitioning. can i copy windows save file to linux? i would assume no but not sure.

[novel yarrow]

The easiest way to move save around is copy to Your local machine (client) and then upload from there via game itself. For Steam version it's gonna be AppData\Local\FactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames\some_long_number

[viscid jewel]

so the windows save is readable on the linux server?

[novel yarrow]

It's simply independent from platform, unless You use mods then it won't work on DS.

Also remember to copy blueprints.

[viscid jewel]

i was under the impression all there was for dedicated server was experimental, is there a non experimental is did everything go non experimental?

[novel yarrow]

This sheet needs to be updated as I see benefits from 6.x kernels.

[novel yarrow]

There is only one version of DS.

[viscid jewel]

1 last thing, i mostly run centos 7 do you see any issues with that?

[novel yarrow]

No issues, my clustered Satisfactory server was running on CentOS 7. For more details here: #off-topic-tech message #off-topic-tech message #off-topic-tech message for more how it works.

[viscid jewel]

any idea if dedicated server plays well with dynamic memory or does it prefer dedicated memory?

[novel yarrow]

Dynamic memory or shared memory works well.

[viscid jewel]

ty

[viscid jewel]

i don't seem to be able to download steamcmd from anywhere for centos. Any ideas. It does not find it in the repos

[novel yarrow]

Full manual via source.

developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD section Manually

[viscid jewel]

is it normal that the game eats all the memory you give it even though you have the memory set to dynamic. it stays maxed out 16G

1 player

[novel yarrow]

Have You set minimum value? Eg. 8192 min, max x2. Usually eats 9-9.5GB per instance.

[viscid jewel]

yes, it is running on hyper-v min is 2048 max is 16xxx (16G)

[novel yarrow]

Well other hypervisors allocate only needed mem. Adjust swap also, vm.swappiness to 1-2.

[viscid jewel]

i have a couple of game servers that do this with memory, no matter how much you give them as a max they will suck it all up whether they need it or not

but top command says it is using 11866MiB

[viscid jewel]

why does my linux dedicated server stop everytime i log out of the machine?

i use -unattended

[near rapids]

You can untick "pause game...." in server settings ingame

[viscid jewel]

ty for response. i found i forgot to run it as a service LOL

[sterile lodge]

what do i do for a dedicated server after i install it off of epic launcher?

[real osprey]

I have a dedicated server that I want to move from one windows computer to another. I was thinking about just coping the folder it's stored on to the new windows host. After doing so, in the load save section of the server manager, I do not see any saves listed. Any suggestions on where I need to go? I still have the old host for the server.

[real osprey]

Disregard... my issue could have been avoided if I RTFM... The saved file was found in the AppData\Local\FactoryGame... https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers

[hoary fern]

I have a spare PC set up as a dedicated server and every couple of hours or so, we end up getting a "timeout" d/c. I did some research and it appears that it was a known issue. I used steamcmd and have the server constantly running. I know the directory is supposed to be appdata\local\factorygame.... however, I cannot locate my ini files anywhere in that directory. Any ideas on how I can locate them to edit them?
Edit: I believe I need to "quit" in the console for it to save the ini files.

Anyone have any experience with increasing connection timeout? Not sure if that will fix my issues

[desert walrus]

Search this channel

[stoic stream]

This crashing is insane

And everytime i crash, the character goes to offline

[nimble timber]

mods maybe?

[opaque spoke]

is there a known workaround for map markers disappearing on dedicated servers?

(besides rejoining over and over until they show up)

[fair oriole]

Dedicated server runs pretty good for awhile. Seems after 12-18 hours we get a Network Error Box and crash. Does anyone know how to setup a .Bat to restart server after it Crashes?

[woven berry]

where do i fill a form for #looking-for-group-old

[desert walrus]

[desert walrus]

:start
start /w "your app to watch.exe"
goto start```

Run satisfactory server with normal options here and use this script to start it

[iron sparrow]

i have a 300 secs the server turn off

can someone help me?

[stoic stream]

You can't run mods on a dedicatd server

THis patch sucks

[novel yarrow]

I'm not experiencing any crashes related to BP or either creatures, for me game just works. No offlined player, occured maybe once, save reloaded after that. 4 vCPU, 16GB RAM per instance and couple system tweaks, it just works.

[pine verge]

ugh today is a bad day for playing on my dedicated server. 3 crashes (client) in 30 minutes =__=

Seems interacting with creatures (including slugs apparently) can crash your client

[brave rover]

the wiki contains a link to a small app that does that

[brave rover]

hey i have the same problem which is why i came here literally no where on google can i find the same issue
i actually did find someone with a supposed solution by adding -multihome="yourlocalIP" or something to the start batch file but that didnt work and the server wouldnt even open, and yes i replaced it with my internal ip lol

i know this has likely been answered if someone would be kind enough to just show me at what point it was answered it would save me scrolling for hours

i cant find the answer anywhere else this is my last resort

[north sierra]

Having trouble connecting to my brother's dedicated server he just spun up with a hosting service -- he's able to connect to it just fine, but I'm not able to see it when I add it from the Server Manager. Currently, the only meaningful difference is that I have the game on Epic, and he has it on Steam. When he was running it on his local PC (non-dedicated), I was able to join him just fine. Anyone have any obvious thoughts?

[edit] Nevermind, seems it resolved itself somehow 🙂

[fair oriole]

Which wiki?

[zinc vale]

hey guys. I'm trying to use SteamCMD to download the Satisfactory dedicated server but for some reason when using the app_update 1690800 command and checking the directory I put it in, i find that it's empty

[safe sapphire]

Question for the group. I have been running the server for some time now and for the most part it has been good and stablish. It seems like the server will only use a max of 12.6GB of memory. I am running it on a CentOS 7 VM that has 8 vCPUs and 128GB memory and would like to take advantage of the memory capacity even if it is up to 32GB or 64GB. I have searched through the filesystem for a config file but have not had any luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[novel yarrow]

Only larger saves will consume more memory in one instance eg. 18MB save can use more than 20GB RAM due high object count. There's no other way to use that memory, unless configure ramdisk or other temp area for OS or deploy another servers on the same host (like me: up to 12 DSes per cluster).

[safe sapphire]

Appreciate it TooMeeK!

[novel yarrow]

The correct command is steamcmd +force_install_dir "/full/path/there/SatisfactoryDedicatedServer" +login anonymous +app_update 1690800 validate +quit

[zinc vale]

Yes that's what I tried and i still end up with an empty folder

[novel yarrow]

Then it's permission issue. chmod user:group -R on that folder to see what happends.

[novel yarrow]

it installs it to C:\Game probably

no quotation marks

force_install_dir "C:\Game Servers\SatisfactoryServer"

[zinc vale]

that's what it was lol

thank you!

[viscid tusk]

do dedicated servers work through the heroic launcher?

[desert walrus]

Isn't heroic launcher for steam deck?

But anyways, it should be able to pull the egs version no problem

[viscid tusk]

No it’s just an alternative launcher for epic and GOG

[desert walrus]

Oh I see

[viscid tusk]

alright got the server up

does it need to have port 1577 fowarded or will a reverse-proxy through a website work

[desert walrus]

As long as your proxy is set to forward udp traffic I don't know why it wouldn't

[viscid tusk]

i tried it but the game still asks for a port, so i doubt its possible to foward through a website

[brazen rivet]

Hey, may someone tell me more aboutdedicated server ? Is it just like a minecraft server, can my friends play if my PC is off or it has to be ON ?

[viscid tusk]

the PC hosting the server has to be constantly on

[brazen rivet]

oh ok but if the game isn't launched, is my pc gonna be permanently on fire ? or it doesn't need that much resources

[viscid tusk]

if there is nobody on the server, it pauses, and wont use much resources

[marble berry]

hey guys. I need a hand. I was trying to start a new save session. it unfortunately changed the session name of my server and now I can't get back to my old session. session name in settings won't let me overwrite it. does anyone know the fix?

[near rapids]

upload your save to https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map and you can remane session there

[marble berry]

odd. I can't change the name of the server session to match? it's all still right here.

ah. interesting. I re-did what screwed it up and that fixed it. for session name I just typed what my old session was and now I can access the saves.

clearly this is still a very beta/alpha part of the game, but I'm still super glad they finally did it.

[viscid tusk]

anyone know what has to be proxied where for a server to work via a domain?
ive currently got this but it isnt working

[[link that dyno bocked]] {
    reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:15777
    reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:7777
}

[brave rover]

The satisfactory wiki and it’s the dedicated servers page

[brave rover]

And sorry hey can anyone still answer this?

[viscid tusk]

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers#Is_the_server_listening_on_the_correct_ports?

[viscid tusk]

trying it rn looks like this

[jagged knot]

good server name

[viscid tusk]

Yeah that’s testing it off of localhost

[formal hazel]

i have the same problem its the first time i start the server and i cant do squad

[somber ridge]

just joined here but it might be a port issue. are you self hosting? did you port forward in your router?

[iron sparrow]

someonw knows how configurate the server ? i need turn off the auto off every 300 sec

[jovial veldt]

Anyone know three auto save frequency, not counting player death/connects/disconnects? Setting up a script to do an archive of the backups going back a couple days.

[desert walrus]

It's configurable, but iirc the default is 15min

[slow heart]

how do I invite people to my dedi server?

when I do show game ID it says invalid session but I'm connected to it

[desert walrus]

The game ID and game publicity settings have nothing to do with dedicated servers. To invite someone, you need to port-forward the server ports, ensure that your firewall is properly configured, and give them your public IP address.

[slow heart]

well i'm connected to it from a different network

how am I gonna invite people to the server if I can't copy game id?

[desert walrus]

They connect the same way you did

[slow heart]

ohhhhh

ok I thought I needed to give game ID

thanks!

[paper shale]

I've tried searching through the chats here, so sorry if I missed this.

We've setup a Dedicated server via SteamCMD on a windows 2019 Dedicated Server our community runs from a server provider.

The person who intially setup the server can see it via the external IP and port 15777.

However once they have logged in and claimed the server. No one else can see the server from that ip, and port?

I as a test have setup a dedicated server from my home network, and it can be seen by everyone and accessed.

[slow heart]

does server auto pause if no one's on?

[rustic tapir]

Yes

It pauses when everyone leaves

[brave rover]

Yeah but this is different the server world isn’t just pausing the entire server is shutting down and needs to be manually reopened

And it even leaves a log saying inactive for 300 seconds before it shuts down

But that practically makes the sever useless lol

I feel like it’s such a simple fix but why does that happen by default

I have no idea how to disable it

[wintry plaza]

yeah i have the same problem

i have to manually turn it back on

[brave rover]

I feel like a lot of people are gonna have this problem if it’s enabled by default

Is that something the devs should know about?

Or just have the answer in a pin or faq

[viscid tusk]

no, I'm trying to see if servers are capable of running through a domain with a reverse-proxy instead of port fowarding

[jovial veldt]

Appling concrete skins to a bunch of walls quickly crashing the server?

[steep flume]

Only happens when it's raining and you do that

Well. Mostly.

Deconstruction/material changing during rain on dedicated causes crash. Though you can't see when it rains. 😛

[remote tulip]

I get this crash when dismatling. I thought it was the rain crash but I noticed that the pathway is on a drive "D". I don't have a "D" drive. Did my install go wrong?

[jovial veldt]

There's not a -norain setting or anything for server start up is there?

[near rapids]

Not currently

[mental raven]

I'm having a lot of stability issues lately, seeing a lot of crashes when building/dismantling/updgrading, I see a handful of similar issues in this channel since update 7.

Is there a broad understanding of this crash and how to mitigate/avoid it other than "don't use build gun"?

[pastel ocean]

Anyone got a bug where the checkbox for server stays live when no players keeps being reticked. i dont want the server running when no-one on. Any suggestions pls?

[frosty gale]

How can I get a save from the server to singel player?

Found it

For anyone wondering
C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\FactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames\server

[desert walrus]

Not really unfortunately, there will hopefully be a round of patches soon

[proud orbit]

I've been trying to do this as well, but I my FactoryGame folder doesn't have "Saved" - is there anywhere else it could be stored?

[near rapids]

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Save_files

[frosty gale]

^^

[proud orbit]

I tried creating a new game in steam and saved the new game, but there is still no folder in FactoryGame called Saved and there are no .sav files anywhere i can find. I don't have epic games installed

[proud orbit]

I can download my saves from Steam Cloud, but I don't see the files anywhere on my computer and without the Saved folder I'm not sure where I'd put the save file to see it in game.

[frosty gale]

It may be that it dosen't make any local saves due to steam cloud you could try turning of steam cloud

Properties and the unchek the box

[proud orbit]

still no luck :/

it's not the same as the .log files in the dedicatedserver folder is it? in my dedicated server folder I do have a Saved folder, but the only files are logs

I'm not sure if it's related, but I also can no longer access my Server settings on my dedicated server. I can log in and play just fine, but when it asks me to Authenticate to view server settings it just never authenticates

[near rapids]

Have you tried to search for sav in Windows search?

[proud orbit]

I did a search for .sav files and didn't get any relevant results

I just ran "%LocalAppData%\FactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames" and i found the folder with all of my saves in it; that being said, i have absolutely no ideawhere this folder is/how to get to it otherwise

[near rapids]

Have you enabled hidden files?

[proud orbit]

I have

I just did a test, and i guess as long as i can get to the folder this way it seems to work haha

[near rapids]

It should say full path in adress bar no?

[proud orbit]

ah yeah it is, i was just trying to click through the folders and there isn't one for Satisfactory, just straight to factory game

the other thing i'm trying to fix is getting access to my server settings. I'm hosting locally and for some reason can't authenticate the server settings, so i'm trying to find the server settings save and reset it. but i can't find those saves either...

[near rapids]

If you managed to get in to save file folder then you need to click few folders back

[proud orbit]

omg thank you so much. I can get into my settings and everything now

[near rapids]

👍

[barren mauve]

anyone know a good host that i cheap

[copper torrent]

I used g-portal for a while and will be again in the future. Setup was pretty easy as well

[barren mauve]

is so mad. bought on shockbyte but server crashes when I tried to create a game. So asked for a refund will probably go for g portal

[nocturne scarab]

G Portal isnt the Cheapest for Servers but a good allround Solution

But What do u need the Server for

[barren mauve]

Satisfactory

[near rapids]

Server requires 10+ gig ram to run

[novel yarrow]

Can someone there share a save to work out performance and stability issues? Preferably 20-30MB range.
I've made some adjustments and got 90-100% tickrate improvement, I would like to check this on other large saves too.

[barren mauve]

What server did you buy?

[noble crater]

I host my own 🙂

Anyone in here using mods on dedicated servers?, since there doesn’t seem to be any CLI tool available to manage them it feels abit wonky to manage at the moment?

[polar harness]

Is there a separate dedicated server software or is it in the same satisfactory client?

[reef gull]

Separate, in steam there will be two, epic there are four.

[reef gull]

Not yet, they are a WIP, but we're awaiting pieces from CSS and we're also working on our side as well. Google ficsit-cli, we have a tool in alpha/beta, but I haven't tested it personally.

[fading quarry]

Anyone experience any issues with blueprints on dedicated server? I have had server crash 3 times in the last 24 hours, prior to using blueprints server have not crashed once. One thing I have found is that floor holes and lifters are acting up, they function but you get rubberband when walking close to them and on rare occasions you can visually see them facing all different ways. I have seen lifters on dedicated before being troublesome when paired with floor holes.

[quasi burrow]

Hey, any idea why I can't connect to my dedicated server? I'm using port forwarding (which is set up correctly, I've used it for other game servers) and have a DDNS but the game just can't resolve it I guess? Is using DDNS even supported? (on local network the server works fine.)

Nevermind fixed it, I didn't check if there are other ports to forward besides the game port.

[lost sequoia]

That's where the source code lives on the computer that compiled and built the game.

[frosty gale]

hows this dedicated server stuff work

[frosty gale]

does it make ur pc the dedicated server?

[desert walrus]

If you run the server on your pc then yes it's the server

It can be run on most reasonably powerful systems with windows or linux

Read this wiki article to learn more:

!wikisearch dedicated+server

[hushed gate]

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Search?query=dedicated+server

[obsidian lily]

can we have this assertion fixed? Its crashing my server 🙂

[desert walrus]

That looks like a rain crash 🤷‍♂️
Hopefully will get fixed in next round of patches

[desert walrus]

Well first off disable mods, they aren't supported on dedicated server

[harsh dust]

the mods are off same thing

[unreal hornet]

I'm getting an error starting public (not experimental) Could not bind any addresses to port '15777'. Nothing is running on it according to ss and lsof. I turned my firewall off. Any suggestions or debug options?

I do also get several errors that says Error: SetEnvironmentVar not implemented for this platform: SteamAppId = 526870 because it can't find the file trying to open ~/.steam/sdk64/steamclient.so if that's related.

[winter knot]

Hi, I am hosting a dedicated server through steamCMD on a laptop, and I can connect to it on my PC, but my friend cannot connect to it (it says server is offline). My PC and laptop uses the same LAN but my friend uses a different one. Thank you!

[desert walrus]

You need to set up port forwarding on yout network

[frosty gale]

what need I do?

connect button not working

[fading quarry]

Hard to tell, is it a dedicated server your hosting yourself? Then it is most likely port forwarding. If its a hosted service its most likely running on a custom port.

[frosty gale]

I did

Sat TCP and UDP

[fading quarry]

there are multiple ports

[frosty gale]

15777 15000 7777

right?

[fading quarry]

yea

[frosty gale]

do i have to do it the same way?

[fading quarry]

yes, but you don't need to forward TCP they all use UDP.

[desert walrus]

That looks like windows firewall

[frosty gale]

yea

[desert walrus]

You also need to forward ports at router

[frosty gale]

hmm

can you help me?

[frosty gale]

It's turkish sorry

[desert walrus]

I would recommend looking up your specific router model, unfortunately it varies greatly

[fading quarry]

yeah not sure if that is your firewall/router? If so you need to also do it in firewall /router where you point it to your internal IP address

[frosty gale]

ipv4 or 6?

[fading quarry]

ipv4

[desert walrus]

*unless your public IP is ipv6

[fading quarry]

true

[frosty gale]

its ipv6 right?

[fading quarry]

no that is ipv4

[desert walrus]

if it's xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx it's ipv4

[frosty gale]

hmm

is it?

[fading quarry]

typically you will find the web interface for your router at 192.168.0.1

[frosty gale]

but its local

[desert walrus]

That's the ip adress your router talks to server on

You need to set up port forwarding for your public ip

[fading quarry]

And in rare cases you might have double NAT as well

[desert walrus]

So type the default gateway address into your browser

[desert walrus]

Change protocol to udp

[frosty gale]

ok

[desert walrus]

But yeah, that looks correct

[frosty gale]

15777,15000,7777 should i do them all separately?

[desert walrus]

If it lets you enter multiples, do it there

And then set the local ip to your private ip

[desert walrus]

So the local ip should be set to your ipv4 adress here @frosty gale

[frosty gale]

192.168.1.7

or 95.70.130.60

[desert walrus]

Yeah, you had just blocked it out in your screenshot so I wanted to be sure

[desert walrus]

This

[frosty gale]

oh sorry

[frosty gale]

done

[desert walrus]

Probably

Alright, let me know if it works

[frosty gale]

I think needed 192.168.1.7

[desert walrus]

Ok, just select the device the server is on in that list

[frosty gale]

okey

[desert walrus]

I didn't realise it had a dropdown, that's handy

[frosty gale]

yeah

Should I write 95.70.130.60 in the source IP part?

[fading quarry]

typically you don't need to

[desert walrus]

You may have to do 0.0.0.0 to specify any source ip

[frosty gale]

hmm

I said apply and they disappeared 🗿

[fading quarry]

no list above?

[frosty gale]

nope

[desert walrus]

Refresh the page

[frosty gale]

I tried but no

[desert walrus]

Hit use current ip

[frosty gale]

I did

same

[desert walrus]

Try adding 0.0.0.0 in the source ip field

[frosty gale]

I did but

Thats happened

[desert walrus]

Oh well

Try again I guess

[frosty gale]

Happened when I did it when its alone

🗿

[desert walrus]

Try restarting your router

[frosty gale]

I can't, others are using the internet at home

[fading quarry]

Anyone have any recommendations for European hosting provider? My old Dell PowerEdge R610 from 2009 is simply too weak 😦 dual Xeon X5650 and 192GB RAM.

Anyhow we have rented a 4players server and its performance is weak, I cant really tell if its a memory issue or the fact that they run on shared systems. But we are starting to get random crashes at random times.

Ideally I would rent a Hetzner root server, but really its just too pricey at 50$+++ per month, at that price I could build a similar server over 12 month rent period.

If anyone have any recommendations at price point 15-20$ per month that would be much appreciated.

[desert walrus]

Unfortunately with the current state of dedicated servers some crashes are unavoidable
I'm also surprised that that xeon system isn't powerfull enough
Not the most modern but those chips did have pretty solid single threaded perf

Actually wait, IPC was kinda garbage that gen

I'm not surprised anymore

[fading quarry]

yeah unfortunately that CPU is one generation too old

[fading quarry]

Some crashes are expected, but as the world is expanding we experience more crashes more frequent which is why I am leaning towards some memory limitations on the current service we are using. Had the server crash 5 times today already. We never had this much crashes earlier, but we just returned from a 6 month break. Dedicated gotten worse?

[winged mauve]

Anyone know why I wouldnt be able to connect to a newly installed server with my IP or localhost?

[desert walrus]

Yes
They released update 7, then went on break without dropping any patches

Still haven't gotten patches out, dedis have a lot of new crashes

Doing certain things while it's raining(which is also invisible on client) as well as slide jumping near creatures are common ones

A temp fix is setting creature hostility to passive from client side

[fading quarry]

well that's good to know, I know some of the guys do nothing but slide ALL the time.

[obsidian lily]

Im currently building a company providing cloud services. Im looking for some beta testers, if youre interested lets discuss this via PM. Compute power is currently located in germany.

[dusky light]

why does my dedicated server not work i am on windows 10 64bits

[novel yarrow]

I'm in. PM me

[fading quarry]

Tried to DM but you have DM's turned off.

[obsidian lily]

sorry.. fixed

[dusky light]

how do i power the train?

[fading quarry]

connect power to a train station

[dusky light]

wtf is this game the splitter doesn't work anymore it just don't let connect any belt do anything I tried everyside and doesn't work

[desert walrus]

Tap ctrl

[dusky light]

no i had to restart the game it works

now

[true sequoia]

hi does it have a way to delete offline player cause I've players will stop to play on this server and they are in hub area

[unkempt dirge]

kill them

[frank frost]

Hey, I'm trying to setup a dedicated server on Shockbyte. Everything went well until I tried to upload my already preexisting save file, and now it just keeps restarting itself according to the console. It's not possible to connect to through the game at all. Any thoughts on what I could try, or do I have to talk to Shockbyte support?

[novel yarrow]

My guess it has not enough RAM for game to load. Empty server may use less than 8GB; once save is loaded, depends on objects built, may take from 12 to 32GB.

[frank frost]

Hmm, interesting. We are paying for 4 GB currently. Why would they even offer that if it wouldn't be enough to run any server?

[novel yarrow]

I'm so sorry for reaction, but 👀 🤣 You need something in 12-16GB range. Unfortunatelly 4GB it's not enough for even new game save.

Seems likely 90% SF server providers don't notice how far game has changed up to Update 7 stage.

[loud minnow]

Lol yeah they haven’t and they don’t care from what it seems too because this update has been out for a while now since update 6 really it needed to increased

[reef snow]

This game is amazing on paper I can't lie- but also the game is essentially in a broken state its impossible to play late game in update 7 multiplayer. This last update broke things. To me it appears as though the studio spends more time and money on youtube video production than fixing dedicated server bugs. Its like theyre floating to the next update and based off what Ive heard in live streams, they basically shut down the excitement of the new devs they brought on and shut down their excitement to work on the game and release solid patches. The devs need a second wind to me it seems like theyre not focused. honestly I think every player would rather see solid software patches every week instead of a live stream of jace talking about screenshots. We essentially bought a game that we can only play the first 30% of the technology tiers without repeated crashes and multiplayer problems.

Maybe its just me but I would immediately pay an additional 10 or 20 dollars for a multiplayer that works smooth as single player. Maybe its the higher ups at the company and their prioritization strategy but the games broken 😂

[desert walrus]

That's definitely a fair criticism, but you do have to remember that dedicated servers are still an entirely experimental feature. The regular game is quite stable at this point, and the recent absence of patches compared to the past(just look back through the history of #patch-notes, where we got almost daily patches following updates) leads me to believe that we are either:
a: going to get a massive wrap-up of bugfixes soon
b: going to get something else big in the next few months such as 1.0 or a ue5 engine upgrade(If something big like this is right around the corner it would be quite illogical to devote dev time to bugfixes)

[novel yarrow]

Especially when this is very resource-intesive app and requires proper system tuning to work stable.

[desert walrus]

Yes

People confuse a lack of visible progress with a lack of effort

[reef snow]

yeah I mean that's definitely fair- but also pure speculation though. Multiplayer is a big part of their marketing and you have to remember that effort doesn't necessarily matter to people who paid for the game, love the game and want to play the game with others. As an office manager just plugging one person into bug tackling for 8 hours a day since their last patch- over a month and a half- or even two months, would be roughly 200 hours of troubleshooting and patching bugs. With just two people the hours double. Many problems with multiplayer could be solved and the state of the game in dedicated servers could be stabilized with even a single dev dedicated to the task. This might already be the case but then you begin to wonder where are the patches, *shrug. You may be right they could be considering an engine upgrade- or working on it currently- but it's pure speculation and probably more wishful than fact. Who knows what's next or when multiplayer will become stable. After they dropped the last update it became clear that they don't have a solid plan and many things are up in the air, thus why they added blueprints "last minute" with what appeared to be an improvisational approach. Update seven broke the game with a lot of unexpected challenges arising for them, and seemed that they released a flurry of patches to get U7 gameplay decent enough to rush it into early access. However nearly every person I've talked with (quite a few) has had numerous gripes about the current state they've left multiplayer in. It's generating quite a bit of negativity in the community and it sucks. But beneath all that aside I'm of course a fan of their work and I appreciate their work, it's just unfortunate that the game is in the current state it's in, when compared to the quality of other updates this one was what you just might consider "rough".

[vestal prawn]

Anyone have any idea why this is happening all the sudden? we have had server crashes we have been dealing with but as we are building a pretty massive HMF I keep getting disconnected (no server crash). It will also still show me connected for awhile and a couple times if I immediately reconnect it will spawn me as a new player.

I see alot of talk about the current state not being optimal, is this just part of it or maybe something on my end with the network not keeping up? Frequent lags where "F" "Q" and such become unusable for many seconds.

Thanks!

[reef snow]

Yeah welcome to the discussion. Ive got a fully boosted server hosting and have so many issues similar to yours and more- many of the players in our discord are pretty bummed out about it.

[hazy socket]

And you have to remember it’s a early access game, not everything will be perfect. They will fix multiplayer eventually but it’s clearly not a priority

It makes no sense to try and work on multiplayer when it will break after the next major update - finish the game and then fix multiplayer is probably their plan

[reef snow]

Yeah of course it's early access. But I mean that's a pretty poor excuse to leave such a widely loved game in the state that it's in- unplayable beyond tier 4

Not that I've heard them use it as an excuse, but people commonly exclaim that it's early access with that reasoning

There's a differentiation between "perfect" and stable

[hazy socket]

🤷🏼‍♂️ could also be that multiplayer is just not able to be “stabilised” without a massive overhaul. But who knows, none of us work for CSS 😂