dedicated-servers

[undone plover]

It does jump from core to core, so at least it's considerate? It could just lock onto one and hotspot your CPU to death, lol

[cedar verge]

Oh mine is stuck on one core. Windows difference, perhaps.

[undone plover]

Well, Windows

[cedar verge]

Poor core #2.

[undone plover]

Yeah, see

For me, it continuously jumps from core to core, but it's always torching one of them, lol

[cedar verge]

It lives there for me. Even between server restarts, it always goes to that core.

Though hotspots aren't a problem, since my server has very adequate cooling and stays pretty chill.

[undone plover]

Well, if we're flexing, lol

I really think if you've got THAT to run it on, you'd be better off running a Linux VM to isolate it, anyway

[cedar verge]

Mine is mostly asleep. Satisfactory is the highest utilization thing I run, when I'm not actively transcoding on PLEX at least. I've got a crap-ton of disk space, that's my flex 🙂

[undone plover]

lol

fucking ever-balooning Plex DB pissed me off to the point where I gave it its own 8TB drive to ruin

[cedar verge]

IS what's in mine.

[undone plover]

lol, chia

[cedar verge]

yeah they're just hanging out. Most of it isn't Chia 😛

[undone plover]

this was what I was really trying to point at

[slim spoke]

who cares

[cedar verge]

I saw that. Don't know what a safeguard is 🙂

[undone plover]

My NAS that's tied in via iSCSI

[cedar verge]

Ah. All local on mine. Smaller volume than yours, though looks like I'm eating more disk space

[undone plover]

Premiere is good for turning any video file into 20x the size, lol

I leave all the raw projects on the NAS and do final renders to the SSD creatively labeled "RENDER" lol

[cedar verge]

Very creative 🙂 My major disk consumption, excepting the chia drives, is just media rips.

I like DVDs/BDs on a shelf, visually, but don't like actually going and fetching a disk to play media.

[undone plover]

When I first built this thing, I was doing all sorts of RAMdisk nonsense, but it was wildly unstable, so I gave up on it

[undone plover]

I've got a thousand plus movies in my Plex library, and I can't count how many TV episodes anymore 👍

[slim spoke]

#off-topic-tech

[undone plover]

But for real, you've got a Xeon, VM your Satisfactory server. Especially if Windows is being weird like that

[cedar verge]

Meh. Not sure VMware or Hyper-V would do it any better.

[quick mist]

Not to interrupt the [bleep]-waving context, but on-topic question:

Is this a problem only with servers or single-player too?

[cedar verge]

It's been 100% stable thus far, just worried if I grow to like a megafactory it might overrun it.

[undone plover]

Mine is running on VMware, I just showed you, lol

When I'm not actively playing I don't notice any appreciable resource usage except RAM

RAM usage seems pretty steady regardless of what it's doing

[cedar verge]

I meant that if I create a VM, I assumed the actual VMware process would still get assigned to a specific CPU core and just live there. I suppose if I give it multiple vCPUs and if the linux VM bounces the client around among the vCPUs that perhaps the host process might do the same. I might play with it.

As for RAM, thankfully that's one resource I simply don't gotta worry about at my current level of utilization.

[undone plover]

I mean, YMMV with Intel, but I don't have that issue over here

[undone plover]

yeah, I've got 64GB that I rarely use more than half of, so handing 16 to a VM wasn't a hardship

And it rarely seems to use even 6, but I'm still building out my world and don't want to have to mess with the VM later

[devout dune]

what overlay is this?

[undone plover]

Overlay?

[devout dune]

well its not an overlay but a top-like program

what program is it?

[undone plover]

Oh, it's Bashtop

[devout dune]

ok, ty!

[undone plover]

Easiest way to install it I've found is through snap, can DM me if you wanna know anything else

[devout dune]

ok, thanks!

[undone plover]

And I like watching logs through webmin. Little heavy if you're not using it for anything else, but it's nice to be able to check on the server remotely with nothing but a web browser

[burnt blaze]

I submitted this as a bug but forgot to mention I'm on dedi

[timid slate]

Wow, since the last update my hyper tube cannon got a lot more powerful 😮

[undone plover]

Minimum length on the tubes seems to be shorter now, too

Was just setting up a new one and I don't recall ever being able to make the tube segments this short

[halcyon gyro]

Hey guys ! Did you know why i can't update my Dedicated Server at the latest version? The game say : "Different version detected between the game and the server. Game version: 172,651 - Server version: 172,183 ". I already do the command "app_update 1690800" and he say it's already update 🤷‍♂️

I'm on Linux (Debian) and i use SteamCMD

Thanks for you answer, love you guys ❤️

[feral dawn]

probs a silly question, but as your on linux and you can overwrite files in use on that platform, you have restarted the server process since updating?

[halcyon gyro]

I think 🤔

I will check that

[feral dawn]

🙂

[halcyon gyro]

Ok so I cut the Screen which contains the server, I tried to update again but still the same message

[feral dawn]

yeah im going to guess the server is updated, but it was running on the old version still

just start the server again

[halcyon gyro]

i will check

I just restarted the server and still the same message

[feral dawn]

plz show the command ur using to update the server

(not just app_update, the whole thing)

[halcyon gyro]

Well I run steamcmd (./steamcmd.sh) I connect anonymously (login anonymous) and I simply do the command (app_update 1690800)

[feral dawn]

are you certain that your updating the correct install?

i am unsure where steamcmd will install the server without using force_install_dir

./steamcmd.sh +login anonymous +force_install_dir /path/to/my/server +app_update 1690800

kinda thing

[halcyon gyro]

Find ! You're right, SteamCMD was not updating correctly! I had to + force_install_dir and it works x)

[feral dawn]

🙂

[halcyon gyro]

Thank you for helping me 🙏

[feral dawn]

no problem!

You most likely have two satisfactory dedicated servers on your server now

you may want to delete the one that you're not using to free up disk space 🙂

[halcyon gyro]

2TB of free disk space but yeah, i will remove it 😉 😂

[feral dawn]

😄

[subtle sundial]

gib

[raw cove]

Anyone on now have an idea of how to fix this?

[subtle sundial]

see if you can kill the tractor

they take damage, i don’t know if from player weapons

lure some animals maybe
or push it to them

[compact basin]

anyone know how to change the Server Name? Anytime I try to use Server Settings on the game, it won't let me change the name.

[ancient sable]

the satisfactory save editor has an option to kill dummy characters, maybe try that? Or you can delete the truck out of the save with the same tool.

[feral dawn]

Delete the tractor by uploading your save to https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map, his old player will then be floating there where the driver seat used to be, wack the player a few times to kill it and pickup the items inside.

[scarlet rose]

Just wondering how many of you know about the server thread issue?

[feral dawn]

You can ensure that this doesnt happen in the future by ensuring you have waited until the crashed player has timed out of the server. If they still look like they are online then have them wait until they are not on the compass any more, they should then spawn back inside the vehicle.

[feral dawn]

care to elaborate?

[scarlet rose]

Servers are currently limited to only use 1 cpu thread

Its a known bug to the devs btw

[feral dawn]

ah the simulation thread, yeah same with your game client too i think.

[scarlet rose]

No the client is find

[feral dawn]

(not taking into account rendering, ofc!)

[scarlet rose]

The game is just using 1 thread for the simulation which usnt intended

[feral dawn]

ah, tbh i just assumed that's how it was because multi threading something like Satisfactory would have been a nightmare.

[scarlet rose]

It uses 2 for sure

[feral dawn]

I believe you'll need to delete the ServerSettings file i think 1 folder below where your saves are stored), then restart the server. It should ask you to type in your server details again, just like the first time you set it up.

example for me is here.

[scarlet rose]

Im hosting a game for people to play on and the tick speed feels like half all of the time with machines

With just 2+ people

Still bad with just 1

[feral dawn]

so are u saying, for example that if a machine stated it would take 4 seconds to make something, it would take twice as long... Or just that the machine feels twice as laggy when giving you information about it's current craft?

[scarlet rose]

Twice as long

Since the server is running at half speed to keep up woth other stuff

Playong is fine tho, most players are fine eith it, just the machines take longer

[feral dawn]

hm very odd, i have already hit the 100% CPU cap, but machines still take the same time they usually would, just with less frequent updates to the UI.

perhaps try setting your t.MaxFPS down a little bit, to see if it helps give the ticks a bit more breathing room.

[scarlet rose]

Then you afent really pushing it then, the tick speed might be 90% and you just dont notice it

[feral dawn]

possible yeah

[scarlet rose]

Time it with a stop watch in real life with 1 long recipe and a short one

[feral dawn]

i shall do that next time i login for sure 🙂

[compact basin]

Another Question lol. How do I unlock windows? im on Tier 8 and still no windows in the awesome shop

[scarlet rose]

Make sure to scroll sown

Down*

[raw cove]

Where do i find my game saves from the server?

[alpine dawn]

windows or linux server?

[raw cove]

windows steamcmd

[alpine dawn]

%LOCALAPPDATA%\FactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames\server

[raw cove]

you rock thank you!

[alpine dawn]

er sorry I think thats actually one folder too deep

[raw cove]

i found it either way

[fringe fossil]

do any of you guys know which ports I have to forward to access the server?

[solid ice]

to access the server? none. To host the server? Check the wiki 😛

[flat forum]

7777
15000
15777 all udp

[fringe fossil]

thx

[fringe fossil]

thats the thing the wiki says something about 5222 6666 and 7287 or smth and that didnt work

[flat forum]

Where does it say that?

[fringe fossil]

"Network configuration
It might be necessary to configure the network in some scenarios, notably on NAT: Strict, which disallows hosting sessions and allows joining sessions only on NAT: Open. Should both the host and client/s have NAT: Moderate or Open, joining sessions should be normally possible.

The game uses the following ports:

5222 TCP & UDP[citation needed]
6666 TCP & UDP[citation needed]
7777-7827 UDP[3]"

official wiki

[solid ice]

I think that is referring to Hosting a session instead of dedicated servers

[flat forum]

Yeah it is

[fringe fossil]

oh ok thx I'm dumb

[solid ice]

also should still only need to be configured on the host side

No worries! It's kind of confusing now with 2 different multiplayer options!

what is happening when you try to connect?

[fringe fossil]

nothing just says its offline

but I will try later with the right ports

[solid ice]

oh gotcha. Are you trying to host the server?

[fringe fossil]

yeah trying to run it on an old laptop with linux

maybe I will give you guys access at some point just to try out the new dedicated servers

[solid ice]

ahh gotcha.

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

heres the dedicated servers wiki page. Just work through that and it should work peachy

[devout dune]

get at least 8 gigs of ram and a decent gpu with at least 2 cores

[solid ice]

I'm running it on an i7 2400 and it is.... rough. I will need to migrate it to a new machine in the near future

[compact basin]

I have scrolled down, its nowhere to be seen

[fringe fossil]

i have 8gigs and 4core cpu i think

[scarlet rose]

Donno then

[fringe fossil]

rly wouldnt think its that hard to run

[alpine dawn]

single core performance is most important

[solid ice]

yeah it takes alot of the processing overhead off your machine and puts it on the server instead

[alpine dawn]

for the dedi

[tacit finch]

Train is still not loading for me....:%

[feral dawn]

Does anyone elses 24h server restart work?

for me, i get the following error in console and it keeps going

[2021.11.16-18.04.54:153][117]LogGameMode: Error: CanServerTravel: FURL :40101/Game/FactoryGame/Map/GameLevel01/Persistent_Level??sessionName=WorldSession?startloc=Northern Forest?Visibility=SV_Private?listen?loadgame=WorldSession_autosave_8_continue blocked, contains : or \

not sure why the port is on the URL that it's trying to Travel to

[frosty gale]

I wish they actually fixed the belts...

[rare jewel]

Any cheap recommandations for server hosting services? I've tried Nitrado, but that was nothing but problems.

[scarlet pollen]

I've been running one on LogicServers since it came out and its been pretty smooth

[long sable]

I've been using a game-2 server from soyoustart and it's been running pretty fine so far.

[civic barn]

no server updates? 😦

[minor narwhal]

Just to be that guy, I run mine on my NAS

[civic barn]

if minecraft docker runs on a cisco switch ... satisfactory can do it too 😉

[agile cove]

Same, Theo, running on an Ubuntu VM on TrueNAS

[clever idol]

EDIT: apparently I'm just an impatient a-hole. 🙂 y'all are the best.

[civic barn]

floor holes br0ken again 😦

[alpine dawn]

Same

[sour gorge]

my friends keep getting unreal engine crashes on my server, anyone know how to fix?

[clear birch]

did i overread it or did they added the save manager for servers silent?

[spiral root]

As I can just clip I just stopped using them too much headache

Wonder What time my server updated?

[feral dawn]

They added that in 172651 (aka, the patch just before this one)

[spiral root]

Oh I missed that too - Yay!

[clear birch]

thanks

[feral dawn]

+1 on this, the belts not rendering their contents correctly (but still working) kinda triggers me just a bit lol

Perhaps these belts are a feature™️

[queen jacinth]

Anyone else having issues with updating server after latest update?

[reef eagle]

Same

[cedar notch]

noup works 😄

[tame solar]

perhaps this applies to your error as well?

[queen jacinth]

Server was turned off before hand, server got a 'forced update' script which I just ran, seems to have worked 🙂
Cheers for the info tho! 🙂

[stray bone]

Is there a HTTP / REST API somewhere to pull the latest Satisfactory version so I can "check" it every now and then to automatically update the server?

[reef eagle]

reboot of server still the issue

[stray bone]

I know, but instead of having to log in to server 2 times a day I will make it auto-update & start instead

[civic barn]

restart of the server during gameplay, because of any automation?

[stray bone]

Satisfactory is all about automation anyway xD

[plush iris]

anyone who had this issue before? :p

the server radomly rebooted

and yeah...

[clear birch]

just found out the server gives you popups a few times starting from 30 minutes before restart

really nice

[civic barn]

lost in space 😄

[warm path]

I updated my client and did the server update, but it's showing a mismatch between the game version and server version. Anyone else experiencing this?

[clear birch]

dunno, restarted mine and everything works

[civic barn]

#172929?

[tidal stag]

same

[tidal oxide]

@warm path yes me too 😦

[clear birch]

tbh, i never had any major issues with my server yet, pretty cool - only some ghost belts

[plush iris]

first time i have an issue too tho :p

just kinda annoying

[warm path]

I did the steam update through my server hosting but that's not resolving it

[cobalt geyser]

Everytime I try to update my server it fails with

Redirecting stderr to 'D:\games\SteamCMD\logs\stderr.txt'
[  0%] Checking for available updates...
[----] Verifying installation...
Steam Console Client (c) Valve Corporation
-- type 'quit' to exit --
Loading Steam API...OK

Connecting anonymously to Steam Public...OK
Waiting for client config...OK
Waiting for user info...OK
 Update state (0x3) reconfiguring, progress: 0.00 (0 / 0)
 Update state (0x3) reconfiguring, progress: 0.00 (0 / 0)
 Update state (0x3) reconfiguring, progress: 0.00 (0 / 0)
 Update state (0x3) reconfiguring, progress: 0.00 (0 / 0)
 Update state (0x3) reconfiguring, progress: 0.00 (0 / 0)
 Update state (0x3) reconfiguring, progress: 0.00 (0 / 0)
Error! App '1690800' state is 0x6 after update job.```

Your updates might be failing in the same way but you don't see the output?

This is the exact same command I've used for every update to date on experimental branch for our dedicated server. Running on a dedicated Windows 10 box

[reef eagle]

got the same

[civic barn]

maybe your server is running - then updates fails

[cobalt geyser]

I closed it the same way I always do for an update

[tired ridge]

hello guys, did trains loading actually work ?

[civic barn]

-> #dedicated-servers message

[tidal stag]

I've rebooted my machine and get the same error

[tidal oxide]

same here

[civic barn]

urgs .. run as root 😦

[warm path]

oh yes, I am getting
Error! App '1690800' state is 0x6 after update job.

[cobalt geyser]

Just checked and factory server is not running

[cobalt geyser]

Same, as posted above

Also have tried running the powershell window as admin with no change.

[tidal oxide]

@civic barn it's a local VM :p

[reef eagle]

seems like the update is not up on the cmd

[civic barn]

just did a systemctl restart satisfactory without any problems

[tidal oxide]

i did it again and now i got an update 🤔

[civic barn]

magic 😄

[cobalt geyser]

I see on a steamcmd documentation page,

No connection to content servers.```

Interesting

[reef eagle]

o its updating !

[worn narwhal]

mine just started working

[cobalt geyser]

Upon maybe the 15th time running it, it's now working too

lol

[civic barn]

maybe steam has some limits for getting content

[warm path]

Trying again...

[tidal stag]

I think we're being monitored 😉

[civic barn]

or some errors in the bridging gap protocol :/

[warm path]

there are cameras in the flying manta ray

[reef eagle]

haha one at a time

yep server on the same version as the client 🙂 it working for me

[warm path]

Hmm mine is still not working, this time I got:
Error! App '1690800' state is 0x606 after update job.

0x606 instead of 0x6

[cobalt geyser]

SteamCMD is unable to write to the disk. Normally caused by permissions issues. This issue was discovered when a directory that was linked using symlink did not have the correct permissions to allow SteamCMD to write to it.```

[tidal oxide]

....

[tame solar]

@warm path

[tidal oxide]

my server won't start 😦

[cobalt geyser]

Yea, now it says server is offline

ripp

[warm path]

at least we're all here for each other during these dark times

Hmm...no error this time 🥁 drumroll...

it's working!

[cobalt geyser]

Restarted the server again and yes, it appears I'm now connecting! 😄
Bit of a rough start but we're up!

[tidal oxide]

rebooted my VM and it's work 🥳

[plush iris]

uhm we are having issues with the new update where you would lose your stuff when you relog into the server

like your character is still there

but you load in with a new one

very strange

[civic barn]

i had this when the server cant reach api.epicgames.com

[plush iris]

you mean the character issue? with losing stuff?

[civic barn]

yes

[plush iris]

how did you fix it?

[civic barn]

this was my local pihole dns blacklisting 😄

[plush iris]

oh well :p

[civic barn]

just whitelisting api.epicgames.com .. seems something with the "playerID" need this for working

maybe you see some errors in the console output about

[plush iris]

weird thing is, it is not every time... just every now and then

and we're hosting on a cloud provider

so yeah

also, do you guys have satis on epic?

cuz some of us have it on steam and some on epic but everyone is having the issue

[green zenith]

so my friend on my dedicated server can see a gigantic rebar gun on the ground, but its not there at all on my screen, and this is just hilarious

[spiral root]

This your first Giant thing?

It means he died with that in one of his hand slots.

Let me find you some of mine,.

[spiral root]

I present the Beacon that can be seen from the other side of the world

[clear birch]

=D

[frosty gale]

That's certainly one way of beacon

I'm the friend that died in @green zenith's server

[versed merlin]

Hahahahahaha!! Take THAT, Space Elevator!

[spiral root]

How about this Sea Chainsaw.

[clear birch]

Love the Server experience so far, i can build and beat the shit out of my mind planning factorys and my friend just run around decorate shit =D

[proper basin]

Hello, we have a dedicated server on the latest experimental branch with a stuck train. I can't dismantle it or any of the stations it is stuck near. Any suggestions? (Previous suggestions are to try the save editor which we will do in a little bit if nothing else pops up)

[versed merlin]

Well, technically speaking, you didn’t need a dedicated server for just that… 🙂

[versed merlin]

Most of the solutions for train and other vehicle issues that I’ve seen come across here have been to move the save file to single player and then try dismantling it, rebuilding it, and then re-importing the save file over to the server.

[clear birch]

technically not, but with different work times and stuff like that its cool that anybody can do his part of the project when he wants and its not the "u have time, i wanna do lights" =D

Also its cool to get the awesome sink over night, really love to get the decoration stuff early on

[proper basin]

This is a great suggestion, will try it. Thanks.

[versed merlin]

Absolutely! I ran into the same thing myself, and ended up just leaving the game running on my desktop overnight and while I was at work (I just flipped the monitors off) so that my friends could join and do what they wanted while I was AFK. S’how I racked up almost 2000 hours in-game according to Steam…. Lol

[clear birch]

hahah

yep, right now my server world is at about 500 hours ingame.. its like we havent progressed xd not even unlocked oil yet

[feral dawn]

I find that depending on the type of person, either you will stop progressing with the Tier's when you unlock foundations and walls and other decoration blocks to make a nice purty factory... Or you'll not give a crap and build wherever to just progress.

[clear birch]

are lifts bugged on DS for you guys too?

its like, i setup my assemblers, connect them to power and need to rebuild the lifts because they wont move items even tho they snapped before

[versed merlin]

I’m one of those that wants to progress so that I can unlock all the pretty things. Lol

Meanwhile, one of my buddies is one of the “bulldoze it all down, pave it over and lay the spaghetti down“ type of guys

[clear birch]

hahahha

classics

[versed merlin]

Yeah, I’d be seriously concerned for nature if he ever got hired at the DEC

(Department of environmental conservation)

[teal notch]

Am I the only one that the game crashes when I enter my Linux server? The server is running fine though.

[hushed gate]

You can send Questions, Feedback, Suggestions, and Bug Reports at https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/ - <3 @slim spoke

Nov 17, 2021, 12:13 AM

[onyx crypt]

I had this issue. Might be a random shot in the dark but it was because I had Factory carts set up on auto pilot

I solved it by loading up my save locally to get rid of the factory carts

[green zenith]

i made a to do list for my server, we need to do a lot of shenanigans

[lofty bear]

can people using EGS join dedicated servers?

[versed merlin]

Yes.

The servers are game-store agnostic.

(the server software, doesn't care if you got the game from Epic or Steam)

[lofty bear]

aight just double checking

trying to figure out why my friends server isnt showing as online for me

[versed merlin]

However, the server software is currently only available from Steam (using the software tool, or installed via SteamCMD)

Could be any number of things, from ports not forwarded to incorrect settings to the server admin ont authenticating and actually starting a game up... 🙂

Best option is to have your friend follow the instructions in the wiki, see pinned messages, and then post here if they're still having issues getting clients to join the server

(the most common, however, is usually port forwarding not set up correctly, or firewall issues)

[green zenith]

my issue was that my ports were not set up correctly on the server, make sure they are correct there as well as for the port forwarding

[teal notch]

Seemd like it was a Radeon update issue. Curiously, I needed to update my driver at the same time this update went out.

[lofty bear]

ok its showing up now, but its got me in a connection loop any ideas?

[elfin nest]

I've got a strange one; @pallid rivet could you describe you you guys are experiencing? From what he was saying, it sounds like they get 1-2 seconds of lag when I'm not playing

Super strange

[mossy radish]

My ded server is using ~4GB of 32GB available memory.

Should I give it more and if so, how do I do that? I didn't see a cmdline param for it.

I briefly debated creating a disk in memory and installing everything to that. It doesnt persist on reboot because RAM but it might help with save latency

Write save to the RAM disk then have rsync or something similar copying that to actual persistence

[worn spoke]

The game should be using what it needs, afaik

[quick mist]

Disk I/O is not the bottleneck when saving unless your hard drive is abysmally slow.

[smoky jetty]

LOOK at my new floating building ahaha h

[gaunt gorge]

2 for one.

[wintry halo]

So for dedicated servers, does each person pick their own spawn or is it still same spawn for all players?

[quick mist]

the server admin sets the spawn zone just like SP or listen servers

[wintry halo]

Danke.

[quick mist]

Bitte

[short blade]

My favorite enlarged item was an object scanner moon

[solid forge]

@all the Coffee Stainers

You guys have any idea when people with large factories can enjoy playing together again

?

Now it doesn't work for dedicated servers or for sessions hosted by player

[slim spoke]

they are now .. try moving hub away from high load area

[solid forge]

wilderness then it is 😄 thx will give it a try

[feral dawn]

Have u set your Network Quality to Ultra on the server out of interest?

[solid forge]

jup tried every available setting in the ini files

no luck

[feral dawn]

it's not an ini setting

and the network quality setting will overwrite what you put in your ini files for network speed etc.

open ur servers console in game in the Server manager

and put FG.NetworkQuality 3

[solid forge]

yes did that and the ini settings

the ultra network setting has been a tip for a while which worked quite well

ok awesome will also try that

[feral dawn]

ye they changed what doing that command did in the 2nd latest patch

it sets a load of internal variables to make the server send the map a bit quicker, among other things.

[solid forge]

ok cool cheers

for now @slim spoke s idea worked awesome back in the game cheers guys

[feral dawn]

glad to hear it 🙂

[vague grail]

Seems like they didn't fix the lift issue on dedicated servers. Building lifts in quick succession - only the first one connects. The subsequent ones don't work correctly and allow for this sort of weird behaviour - you can build a belt between them to 'fix it', but that does no good come time to upgrade.

[latent pier]

I just did the last Update on my Server and it automatically close itself when I start it in less than 3 seconds, why ?

[slim spoke]

check for logs

[latent pier]

I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it was running just fine before

The only line I see wront is this one

[slim spoke]

vid driver

lol

[latent pier]

The others ones are steam errors but they where here all the time since I first installed the dedicaced server

[vague grail]

"exit was already requested" - what else requested exit?

[latent pier]

I don't have vidéo driver since I don't have a graphics card except thé Server inboard graphics

Whiwh I don't even know what it is

[slim spoke]

well somehting is tryin to use raytracing

[latent pier]

Could be in the intel Xeon graphic

[vague grail]

but this is on a headless server? Why would it be trying to access any video rendering services.

[latent pier]

I don't know

Yeah

[vague grail]

That's a red herring.

[slim spoke]

helps to have log with actual info

[vague grail]

Need more log.

[latent pier]

Gimme à sec I need to go on my computer, I was lazy and did it on my phone 😂
I'll send the full log

there

[vague grail]

LogCore: Engine exit requested (reason: Win RequestExit)

[latent pier]

I may have missed information

how

why

I didn't did a thing

ok

found it

two lines before

Message dialog closed, result: Ok, title: Message, text: The current resolution is too low to run this game.

because my phone screen is too small

[vague grail]

Are you trying to run this on a mobile phone?

[latent pier]

that's the most dumb thing I had but yeah, why not

[latent pier]

I connected via RDP on my server

the server screen resolution adapted to my phone screen size

which is too small for the game server apparently

[vague grail]

no, thats an XY problem.

[latent pier]

rn, the server is running just fine

[vague grail]

what exactly are you trying to do to play the game? Because you're telling me one thing and meaning another.

You're using your phone to RDP to your desktop which is running the game client?

And then trying to connect the client to the server?

Because 'connecting to the server' is as simple as running a terminal client and that has no resolution requirement to view text.

[latent pier]

I was trying to run that little "BAT" file to launch the SatisfactoryDedicacedServer on my Homelab rack server using my phone connected to my Homelab rack server via the windows RDP
the RDP ADAPT the screen resolution of my server to the size of my phone screen (which is pretty small compared to a normal desktop screen)
and when I trued launchine the SatisfactoryDedicacedServer, it didn't liked the screen resolution

I never talked about launching the game

my server's graphics card barely support the windows server graphic interface, how would it run a game :lul:

[vague grail]

That makes no sense. I run my server on a 'docker' container which for all intents and purposes doesn't have a video card at all.

[latent pier]

don't ask me why ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'm jsut telling what it says to me xD

[vague grail]

Or you're interpreting it incorrectly.

[latent pier]

how could I interpret that then ?

"too low"

it means too low

nothing else xD

[vague grail]

Then that bat file is not running the server - but trying to run the actual game? Because the 'server' is not a graphical system.

[latent pier]

...

[vague grail]

It runs an unreal physics engine but does not perform any rendering functionality.

[slim spoke]

just make a shortcut to exe and put the switches in

[latent pier]

it's the exact same thing

[slim spoke]

reboot or reinstall

[latent pier]

why ?

[slim spoke]

cuase ur server is nuts and thinks its a game

[latent pier]

it runs fine rn why would I reboot the entire thing

[slim spoke]

or running it thru ur rdp ur calling it to the phone to be executed

and it ends up killing it

hence windows exit

[vague grail]

But your server isn't running fine if simply running it is causing it to crash.

[slim spoke]

if its running fine why are u starting it?

[latent pier]

I already said it, it was rhe RESOLUTION DUR TO THE SCREEN SIZE OF MY PHONE that messed up launching the server
when I launched it through my pc (which is a 1080p screen) it runs just fine

what do you don't understand in that ?

[slim spoke]

just make it a service

i think he wants us to be sure to understand the the problem is PEBKAC

[vague grail]

There's some kind of disconnect because running a .bat file regardless of HOW you do it is not dependant on the resolution of the device trying to do it. Resolution only matters to a game client trying to access the server.

[devout dune]

what has your phone to do in all of this?

very confusing

[latent pier]

just read

[latent pier]

I want you to understand that the problem is solved.

[slim spoke]

ur trying to launch the server on ur phone essentially

[devout dune]

sorry but I'm gonna be that guy, just learn to use linux and manage it through ssh

[latent pier]

do you even know what RDP is

[devout dune]

this is way way over complicated

[vague grail]

🤦‍♀️

[slim spoke]

i wasnt the one who came with the problem of the phone not loading it

lol i think ur confused and should just have a good day

[vague grail]

RDP has nothing to do with how your server host runs a .bat file.

[latent pier]

I was using my sever through my phone, my phone became se mouse and the screen of my server

[devout dune]

how does that affect the server stability anyway?

[latent pier]

it has to do with SCREEN RESOLUTION

[devout dune]

how?

[slim spoke]

yup and u did rather well at making it error

[vague grail]

how.

[devout dune]

server is headless

[slim spoke]

thanks for telling us all about it

[vague grail]

screen resolution DOES NOT MATTER running a command line tool.

[latent pier]

BECAUSE IT FUCKING ADAPT TO THE SIZE OF THE SCREEN I4M USING IT

[vague grail]

Nor does it matter when running a physics simulation WITHOUT GRAPHICS RENDERING

[devout dune]

inhale exhale

[slim spoke]

fix ur rdp

[devout dune]

throw the server in the trash

[vague grail]

no... no it does not 'adapt' to anything.

[latent pier]

THEN WHY DOES THE FUCKING LOG SAYS THAT THE RESOLUTION IS TOO LOW

what

[slim spoke]

it could if he had it setup wrong

[latent pier]

do

you

don't

understand

[devout dune]

guys let him be

[slim spoke]

making comp change to phone settings

[devout dune]

he's found the sollution to his own problem

[slim spoke]

thing is we understand thats why we didnt have this problem

enjoy ur day

[devout dune]

i didnt understand shit but ok

i'm glad you did

[vague grail]

His issue is that he's interpreting X as Y and doesn't understand either.

[devout dune]

this made me laugh really we need more people telling us that phone resollution through RDP affects a CLI

i'm not joking

[slim spoke]

if rdp changes the resolution and settings for it then u could fuck things up

[devout dune]

its headless

[slim spoke]

just learn to use it properly then u can launch things from phone

[vague grail]

there is no UI on headless - RDP resolution has nothing to do with running a CLI on a remote host.

[slim spoke]

he remoted windows

[vague grail]

so?

[slim spoke]

so u can have rdp changing things

i used to match clients on gov comps to my desktop

lol

[vague grail]

That's just changing your desktop viewport. It doesn't change how a headless CLI works.

[slim spoke]

anyways

[vague grail]

Otherwise all manner of other headless applications would break because of it.

[slim spoke]

how many enjoy ur days u want

enjoy night and day is that enough?

[lone knoll]

Just checking to make sure i didnt mess up my server settings. are crates spawning for yall on the dedicated servers on death?

[vague grail]

I should probably take off my blade runners before testing it

Yep, chest spawned.

[devout dune]

anyone completely losing inventory and position on re-connecting

[vague grail]

I did in SP. Not in DS

[slim spoke]

sounds like offline mode gave u a new body

[devout dune]

not using offline mode

:S

just connected as usual

still i've learned to make crates before disconnecting and saving stuff there

[slim spoke]

ya well that can not work also and u get a new body

try to logout and in on launcher before u start the game

[balmy root]

Hey sorry if this a repeating question but is there any up to date guide that shows configuration, specifically I want to add more slots so more of my friends can play with us.

Windows server if that matters

[vague grail]

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

Just before "History"

[balmy root]

I've tried locating Game.ini but can't seem to find it

[quick mist]

The server needs to have been running and gracefully shut down for the file to be generated.

[balmy root]

Gracefully shut down as in ran a command to shut it off or

[quick mist]

the most surefire way for a guaranteed graceful shutdown is with the exit command from the console.

[feral dawn]

I have had this happen if my game crashes, or i timeout for some reason.

However, the issue is simple from my testing: If you connect back to the server when your old connection has not been terminated yet (the server thinks you're still online), you'll spawn as a new character.

[balmy root]

Hmm odd, I've done that. I ran exit through the Server Manager console and it shut the server down, and I could see the console doing it's thing before shutting off and it hasn't generated any files in %LOCALAPPDATA%/FactoryGame

[slim spoke]

just create the ini

[balmy root]

I've tried that as well without success

[devout dune]

strange cause hours have past

like 12 hours to say the least

[slim spoke]

has to be in right folder of server

[devout dune]

but ok, any info is welcome

[feral dawn]

@balmy root the INI files are located in the servers install directory, not the localappdata folder as far as im aware

@devout dune ah, not sure then buddy, sorry.

[vague grail]

for windows, it seems the config files are stored in FactoryGame\Saved\Config\WindowsServer\

*rel to installation dir

[feral dawn]

^

[balmy root]

Oh...

I see it now, thank you. In the wiki it shows as if it's in LocalAppData

[feral dawn]

hmm

[vague grail]

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

[balmy root]

I am just blind

Apologies

[feral dawn]

all good 😄

[stray bone]

I try to add a 2nd server and changed the ports to -ServerQueryPort=15800 -⁠BeaconPort=15000 ?listen -Port=8000.... they are all forwarded, I can see the server on the list but cant connect to it

[quick mist]

first, why are you using ?listen?

[stray bone]

The manual says so?

[quick mist]

oh, someone put that back in the Wiki

it should have been removed a while ago

let me re-remove that

huh. I do not see it on the Wiki since its removal a week ago

anyhow.. I see you're specifying the Beacon Port as the standard port of 15000, but you say this is a second server. Two services cannot both bind to the same port at the same time.

[stray bone]

So 15000 is the standard port if not specified?

[stray bone]

Oh, so I must forward port 15001 then?

[feral dawn]

U can usually see the ports it's using in the log file when it starts, if that helps.

[lone knoll]

so to continue my inquiry into this broken death crate bug, im getting this error when i try to respawn. fresh sessionID and restart did not fix. Reverified integrity as well:

SpawnActor failed because no class was specified

[tacit crag]

Not sure if the right place to ask and in case it is not, apologize:

Did anyone test the dedicated server with 5-10 players from a proper data center and how the performance works? I have one server in place and could only test with three peeps so far where things more or less run smoothly (with an all new game). Might worth asking before bringing 10 peeps together just to figure out it doesn't perform properly yet :]

Anyone has more experience on such participant setting?

[haughty marsh]

Hi everyone! Besides the loading issues a lot of people are reporting for dedicated servers - do your trains run smoothly in the client session? My trains move rather erratic and seem to have sync issues. Sometimes the train runs over red signals, then go back. At other times they takle the wrong path and then are set back. Especially, but not exclusively, if I'm in the train.

My question: is that a known issue or does this mean the dedicated server machine isn't powerful enough? I'm experimenting with a server from nitrado.

[pallid rivet]

Feels like to me that's just a "normal" desync issue from either poor network (you and/or the server part)

Or CPU not powerful enough for your loadsave but you can easily check that via some Linux commands to see your CPU time

[lone knoll]

For anyone following the death crate issue, it seems through research its isolated to the Linux version. Does anyone else run it through Linux that can confirm?

[haughty marsh]

Thanks, that's what I thought, too. CPU load is pretty high. However, I wanted to make sure, that this is not a known issues with the dedicated server itself.

[quick mist]

There was a death (and crate) on my server last night, which is a Linux server. No issues, everything was perfectly normal other than the respawning critters.

[feral dawn]

I also run Linux, both death crates and item overflow crates work fine (at the moment)

[lost plover]

Anyone know if the object limit is a thing on dedicated servers?

[quick mist]

It's a Thing on the Unreal engine in general, so.. yes?

[lost plover]

Okay thanks

[fleet lynx]

so i am new to SteamCMD, is there an easy way to set up auto update and restarts?

[versed merlin]

The wiki page has information on how to set up the Satisfactory server software as a service. One of those sections had information on how to add the SteamCMD commandline stuff to the service profile so that anytime you stopped and restarted the service, it'd update and verify the game files

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

The "systemd" section indicates the "ExecStartPre" command which does that.

granted, that's for linux.

There's also a Docker section that includes the SteamCMD commandline as well.

[fleet lynx]

thanks i just looked over that page and that should work thank you

so before i set this up for windows, if i use NSSM to keep the server up and running and SteamCMD AutoUpdater it should run fine

[clever anvil]

• Servers should now use all available cores (Up to 26 worker threads) on both Windows and Linux
thank god I'm running satisfactory on my 32-core server 😄

[sharp spruce]

neat

[long sable]

I'm only giving the server 4 4.4GHz cores, but hopefully this makes performance more stable.

[clever anvil]

Nice. I'm running ~3.2GHz, all 32 currently available but soft-limited to 2 cores

If the pandemic hadn't screwed up supply chains I'd ordered a few high-perf servers as well for single-thread oriented games

Maybe I won't need that

[twilit fox]

time to get that threadripper dedi up and running.

[long sable]

Yeah I have a dedicated at home that has 16 cores at 3.2 GHz, but it is only on a 20 Mbps uplink as its on a home network.

[twilit fox]

to be fair the only threadripper i could afford is the old 1900x.

[clear birch]

i just asked about this a few days ago and everybody was like - uhh, nope

nice

[clever anvil]

those first gen threadrippers aren't great, even for their time.

There's a reason their price dropped to the floor

a Ryzen 3950X easily outclasses them, for half the (MSRP) cost.

[twilit fox]

that's fair. the machine I'm probably going to try my server on is a ivy bridge i7 i think..

it could be haswell or skylake too. lol

[clever anvil]

that'll be fine. I'm running broadwell servers

[twilit fox]

it's free to me. that's the major selling point lol

[fading geode]

Sorry if this has been answered before, but I'm having trouble finding the right info: where do I find the server installer on Steam if I have Sat on Epic?

[unreal cave]

Lemme point you to the wiki with all the information you need :)

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

[fading geode]

Thanks. But does this mean that I can only use SteamCMD if I don't have the game on Steam?

[unreal cave]

Yes :)

It is very easy to use

[fading geode]

Thanks! Yeah, I know how to use it, but that info should probably be added to the wiki in a clearer statement

[unreal cave]

You could create an account and try to improve it if you want :)

At the moment, the dedicated server is available for the Windows and Linux operating systems. It can currently only be installed using the Steam service (where it is listed as a tool) or its command line sibling SteamCMD. The servers are experimental and for now only support the Experimental branch. 

In my opinion the wording is quite clear

[obtuse cargo]

is there a setting for multicore. I only have 4 on my linux machine but i only see the one process and no child process associated with it.

[unreal cave]

I must say, I also don't see that much threading 🤔

Mainly still 1 core capped and the rest idle

[violet fulcrum]

Hello i got this issue with my server running under LinuxGSM and Ubuntu 21.10 :
./UE4Server-Linux-Shipping: error while loading shared libraries: libApexFramework.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
If anyone got clues, thx

[versed merlin]

From the patch notes today:

DEDICATED SERVERS
• Servers should now use all available cores (Up to 26 worker threads) on both Windows and Linux

#patch-notes message

if you aren't seeing the same, be sure to drop by the QA site and check if others have reported the same. If not, please file a QA report so that CoffeeStain can look into it!

[obtuse cargo]

I read the patch notes. I am trying to verify I have not missed a setting before posting the QA site in case it is user error on my part.

[clear birch]

current screenshot of mine

seems to be better than before

[unreal cave]

Not much change for me 🤷

[clear birch]

yep, highly depends on the area im in

[frosty gale]

How do I update my server or is it automatic or smth?

[clear birch]

i guess its hard to really outsource anything in a good way

[unreal cave]

Execute the steamcmd command again

[versed merlin]

if you installed by SteamCMD, run the same command you ran to install

[frosty gale]

Im using linux

[versed merlin]

that'll update and verify

If you set it up as a service, and have the steamCMD commandline in your service description file, you can just restart the service and it'll do it for you

[quick mist]

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers#How_do_I_update_the_Dedicated_Server.3F

[frosty gale]

Ok thanks

[versed merlin]

:snrk:

😄

[violet fulcrum]

Just did /home/sfserver/sfserver update-lgsm and /home/sfserver/sfserver validate problem seems solved ^^

[versed merlin]

Mine went from capping out on a single core to still almost capping that core but also spawning some threads in the other cores.

[quick mist]

stands to reason. There's not much getting away from the bulk of the work being in one main thread

I imagine each automated vehicle might get its own thread for pathing etc. for example though

[versed merlin]

Still not using 'em all but given how the game's tick loops work, that's not too surprising as it does a ton of work in the same thread.

dammit, Ghoti.

get out of my brain

[obtuse cargo]

most of mine factories are currently loaded. i wonder if simulated areas can be moved to worker threads

[fervent crow]

MULTI_THREADING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Servers should now use all available cores (Up to 26 worker threads) on both Windows and Linux

[versed merlin]

Leeloo Dallas, Multithread

[rigid walrus]

Does the new core utilization require the USEALLAVAILABLECORES launch argument documented on the wiki for clients? Or is it implicitly enabled?

[frigid saddle]

not working on my linux server, 12 cores only 1 is used

[versed merlin]

be sure to drop by the QA site and check if others have reported the same. If not, please file a QA report so that CoffeeStain can look into it!

[versed merlin]

Great question. unknown at this time.

(unknown by ME , I should say)

😄

[fervent crow]

i dont like you now.

[versed merlin]

It was the Fifth Element reference wasn't it. 😦

However, I'm at home, and have a ssh window up on my other montor watching the core usage on the server.

and I'm about to give it ago with the USEALLAVAILABLECORES argument on a re-start 😄

FOR SCIENCE!

[frigid saddle]

sorry

[versed merlin]

sudo systemctl stop satisfactory-server

OMG.

*facepalm

brb

[rigid walrus]

lmao

[unreal cave]

Awh :c

[rigid walrus]

I've done that a few times

[unreal cave]

Was hoping for a password :p

[frigid saddle]

docker-compose . i love docker

[quick mist]

[sudo] password for cubgeek: _

[versed merlin]

okay, TOTALLY NOT SCIENTIFIC METHOD, but...

I just ran the FactoryServer.sh -useallavailablecores and i'm seeing two cores tapped out at times.

Yeah, still mainly one, but as Ghoti and I said earlier, it's not surprising, give how the game uses mainly ONE thread.

[quick mist]

One of these days I'm going to convert my SF server from a system unit to a userspace unit. then I can just systemctl --user restart satisfactory.service and not have to reauth

[frigid saddle]

always the same

anyone else run this in a docker? might be a docker issue not doing multi thread

[quick mist]

Threads aplenty now.

[tardy orchid]

the programmable splitter resets every time i close the window is this known??

[quick mist]

Is there like with signs a 'Save Settings' button?

[unreal cave]

That is with -useallavailablecores or all upper case?

[quick mist]

without actually, I did not alter my server startup invocation

[versed merlin]

Yes.

[tardy orchid]

ok

[green zenith]

hopefully the server picks up on my 24 cores i have available

[unreal cave]

Yea, I also see alot of threads now. But only one is really being used :p

Would have been nice if they gave a bit more information on it :p

As in what we should expect to see

[obtuse cargo]

i've never really looked for threads before but I do see 20 now. they were probably there before. Though I am in the same boat only 1 core really doing anything.

[quick mist]

cubgeek is not in the sudoers file.   This incident will be reported.

[versed merlin]

I just opened a SSH window and had to doublecheck which window was active before I pressed ENTER for my password. LOL (no, I haven't set up keys, yet) 😄

[unreal cave]

😱

But it's easy :p

[quick mist]

it's literally one command (:

[unreal cave]

Just do ssh-copy-id <ip>

[quick mist]

^

[versed merlin]

I know. I just ... okay, fine, bullies.

😄

[forest anchor]

so do i just do ```
./FactoryServer.sh -unattended -log -useallavailablecores

[versed merlin]

You shouldn't need to.

AFAIK

and AFAICT

Dope's typing, though, so look out

😄

[quick mist]

There is no need to alter the invocation of the server to leverage the multithreading today's patch brings.

[forest anchor]

i mean im testing it on my 24 core server to see how much i can eat up lol for fun and i have 48 gb of ram on it too lol

[vague grail]

can anyone verify a weird issue I keep having with connecting lifts in manifolds? IE if you build several lifts, only the first one connects unless you "cancel" the build and place a new one from scratch. Trying to nail down what exactly is the cause. Logs don't show anything if this is a threading issue.

[versed merlin]

Is this new behaviour for your dedicated server? Or do the lifts exhibit this in single-player (ish) as well.

[vague grail]

It used to in SP, but that seems fixed.

Its been like this since U5 on DS

But with the changes they've made to foundation snapping, and their patch notes on lifts not "snapping" I was hoping it would have carried over to DS

the one on the right I placed just after the one on the left.

And it lets me do weird things on the splitter too :

and its letting me bridge the gap (which should have been connected) with a belt:

[lost plover]

Not always I have a few mergers that are like that and don't need a belt

[vague grail]

Yeah its not "always". I can break the behaviour if I cancel the build, or decon/recon the lift. But its subsequent "mass builds" that seem to break after the first.

Only every once in a while do I get a log dump with

[2021.11.17-22.33.44:491][434]LogGame: Warning: BP_MaterialEffect_Dismantle_C_2147467522::SetMeshes, This cannot be called after PreStarted.
[2021.11.17-22.33.47:554][512]LogTemp: Warning: AFGConveyorLiftHologram::ConfigureComponents
[2021.11.17-22.33.48:872][535]LogTemp: Warning: AFGConveyorLiftHologram::ConfigureComponents
[2021.11.17-22.35.22:759][ 48]LogGame: World Serialization (save): 1.070 seconds ```

But that just seems to show mass dismantle when I want to clean things up. Nothing when placing the object.

[small lark]

Anyone know what's up with servers only updating to 172929 today, while game version just updated to 173131?

[vague grail]

Dunno. My server (in docker) updated and is running 131 just fine.

[small lark]

Aaaaand I'm an idiot. Was doing some housekeeping and renamed the folder with my game files which f'd up my batch 😵‍💫

[vague grail]

That'll do it.

[outer basin]

Hey, I just restarted my docker container containing a dedicated server. After the restart the server stays offline but i cant find any errors in the logs.

[2021.11.17-22.54.20:413][  0]LogNet: Created socket for bind address: 0.0.0.0 on port 15000,
[2021.11.17-22.54.20:413][  0]LogNet: IpNetDriver_2147478679 IpNetDriver_2147478679 IpNetDriver listening on port 15000,
[2021.11.17-22.54.20:438][  0]LogNet: UNetDriver::TickDispatch: Very long time between ticks. DeltaTime: 0.01, Realtime: 23.07. EOSNetDriver_2147482351,
[2021.11.17-22.54.20:438][  0]LogLoad: Took 23.863655 seconds to LoadMap(/Game/FactoryGame/Map/GameLevel01/Persistent_Level),
[2021.11.17-22.54.20:413][  0]PacketHandlerLog: Loaded PacketHandler component: Engine.EngineHandlerComponentFactory (StatelessConnectHandlerComponent),
[2021.11.17-22.54.20:413][  0]PacketHandlerLog: Loaded PacketHandler component: DTLSHandlerComponent (),
[2021.11.17-22.54.20:413][  0]LogInit: BSD IPv4/6: Socket queue. Rx: 262144 (config 131072) Tx: 262144 (config 131072),
[2021.11.17-22.54.20:413][  0]LogNetCore: DDoS detection status: detection enabled: 0 analytics enabled: 0,
[2021.11.17-22.54.20:412][  0]LogReplicationGraph: Display: SetActorDiscoveryBudget set to 20 kBps (1333 bits per network tick).,
[2021.11.17-22.54.19:265][  0]LogStreaming: Display: ULevelStreaming::RequestLevel(/Game/FactoryGame/Map/GameLevel01/Tile_X4_Y5) is flushing async loading,
[2021.11.17-22.54.19:331][  0]LogStreaming: Display: ULevelStreaming::RequestLevel(/Game/FactoryGame/Map/GameLevel01/Tile_X2_Y2) is flushing async loading

This is the ending of my log. Did anyone else get this problem?

[vague grail]

[2021.11.17-22.54.20:413][ 0]LogNet: Created socket for bind address: 0.0.0.0 on port 15000,

Looks like you didn't use multihome. Unless you gave docker ipv6 out of the box, it can't bind to a ip properly.

[neat iris]

idk what y'all did in the patches but they work now!

[vague grail]

You may want to try using --network host if the container still has problems.

[outer basin]

I will give it a try ty 🙂

[dry bluff]

Is it just me or is the server process still only using a single core after the latest patch?

[unreal cave]

Yea, and will stay that way for the most part

[kindred violet]

Should this warning concern me?

Nov 17 18:02:15 localhost FactoryServer.sh[13536]: ]LogSteamShared: Warning: Steam Dedicated Server API failed to initialize.
Nov 17 18:02:15 localhost FactoryServer.sh[13536]: [2021.11.17-23.01.02:225][811]LogOnline: STEAM: [AppId: 0] Game Server API initialized 0
Nov 17 18:02:15 localhost FactoryServer.sh[13536]: [2021.11.17-23.01.02:225][811]LogOnline: Warning: STEAM: Failed to initialize Steam, this could be due to a Steam server and client running on the same machine. Try running with -NOSTEAM on the cmdline
Nov 17 18:02:15 localhost FactoryServer.sh[13536]: [2021.11.17-23.01.02:226][811]LogOnline: Display: STEAM: OnlineSubsystemSteam::Shutdown()
Nov 17 18:02:15 localhost FactoryServer.sh[13536]: [2021.11.17-23.01.02:227][811]LogOnline: Warning: STEAM: Steam API failed to initialize!
Nov 17 18:02:15 localhost FactoryServer.sh[13536]: [2021.11.17-23.01.02:227][811]LogOnline: Display: STEAM: OnlineSubsystemSteam::Shutdown()

I guess I could do what it recommends, not sure I understand the implications though

[outer basin]

I tried --network host and got the same result. The problem probaly lies somewhere else since i noticed the same line in a log file where the server does work. Just after closing and starting the container the server cant be found

[vague grail]

what version did you upgrade from? I had the same issue with 0.0.0.0 IP until I used the multihome flag (but networking wasn't configured to host either so I had to fix that too), but that was a while ago.

[outer basin]

Do you mean the game version?

[vague grail]

yes

[kindred violet]

shouldn't need to bind to host network, just need to pass the proper port mappings to the docker run command?

[vague grail]

#lazy

[kindred violet]

#script-that-shit

[outer basin]

Euhm i dont know the exact version numbers but it was like 1 hour ago xD

[kindred violet]

What does your docker run command look like?

[outer basin]

docker run -d --name=satisfactory-server -h satisfactory-server -e MAXPLAYERS=8 -e PGID=1000 -e PUID=1000 -e STEAMBETA=true -v /mnt/docker/Satisfactory/config:/config -p 7777:7777/udp -p 15000:15000/udp -p 15777:15777/udp wolveix/satisfactory-server:latest

[feral dawn]

hm i am seeing no extra CPU usage, shame

[kindred violet]

If you shell into the container can you see if there is a process listening to those ports?

[outer basin]

I can check it from my server but inside the container no commands seem to work. Im kind of a docker noob btw xD

[vague grail]

for the sake of argument, if you add -multihome=<ip of host machine> what happens?

[fleet lynx]

ok so im using NSSM to run as a Service but i cant figure out where the save folder is now please help

[outer basin]

--network host too or just this

[vague grail]

try both

though you've configured your ports, so I don't think --network host matters.

[minor whale]

is there some where else i can edit settings

im using Nirado hostings if that helps

[fleet lynx]

tes

[outer basin]

When i use -multihome it detects the -m and cant find ultihome xD

[feral dawn]

%localappdata%\FactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames\server

[vague grail]

hmm

[feral dawn]

Anyone else on Linux shown any drastic change to CPU usage (over 100%) since the patch?

[minor whale]

how do i connect to my server?

[vague grail]

via the game?

[minor whale]

Via what menu

[vague grail]

"Server Manager"

[feral dawn]

You're not on the Experimental game

[vague grail]

^

[feral dawn]

download the experimental version

[minor whale]

oh

sorry downloading now

[fleet lynx]

so that is where they where befor i ran it as a service using NSSM but now i can find the saves

[feral dawn]

ooooh

yes nssm ofc

C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\FactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames\server

[vague grail]

Oh, you're following the wolviex github thing.

seems like the docker config file on the wiki is gone 🤔

[quick mist]

looks like it's still there to me

[outer basin]

Yes xD maybe i should have put it in my first message

[vague grail]

did it get moved? Ctrl-F docker doesn't give me any hits.

[quick mist]

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers/Running_as_a_Service#Docker

[vague grail]

Ah it was moved.

[fleet lynx]

thx

[vestal yarrow]

Is it possible to change the location the dedicated server saves to?

[vague grail]

yes?

[feral dawn]

I did not think that was possible atm.

[quick mist]

you can make the save directory a symbolic link to wherever you like

[vague grail]

I mean context. But symlinks work

[outer basin]

Idk if it matters but when I try to create a new container it keeps hanging at

[2021.11.17-23.59.53:389][  0]LogLoad: LoadMap: /Game/FactoryGame/Map/DedicatedserverEntry?name=Host?sessionName=SatisfactoryServer?Visibility=SV_FriendsOnly?loadgame=savefile?listen?bUseIpSockets,
[2021.11.17-23.59.53:389][  0]LogWorld: BeginTearingDown for /Temp/Untitled_0

[quick mist]

Does it only seize there when you run it in Docker?

[outer basin]

I have only tried running it in docker

I just noticed it does keep going if i put in a save game manually

[quick mist]

well a fresh server only really fires up the manager interface until it's claimed and a game is started

[eternal ravine]

hey :)

[vague grail]

Yep, you'd have to hop into the game client and create a new game/upload a save if you don't already have it pointed at an existing save.

[eternal ravine]

how can my friends join my server?

[pine eagle]

If the update to the dedicated server now uses all the cores it can, is there a way to tell it to use less(using linux)

[vague grail]

give them the server ip?

[eternal ravine]

it's already running and it works

[quick mist]

in their game client, they click on the Server Manager, Add Server, and then punch in your server's address

[eternal ravine]

where can i see that?

[quick mist]

from the host your server is running on, go to e. g. ipchicken dot com

[vague grail]

wherever you set your public IP to when you created your firewall rules.

[eternal ravine]

firewall rules?

i'm lost

[vague grail]

So your server isn't publicly available.

[eternal ravine]

how can i make it publicly available?

[vague grail]

port forward through your firewall.

[feral dawn]

You'll need admin access to your router, to add Port Forwarding rules.

[quick mist]

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

[feral dawn]

maybe one day the devs might add NAT Punching, but It would be very unlikely.

[eternal ravine]

hmm

[quick mist]

that needs some sort of centralized servers; not worth the cost.

[feral dawn]

indeed it does

[vague grail]

Its the same kind of thing as setting up a minecraft server... its not hard. (not NAT punching - doing it the manual way)

[quick mist]

it's only slightly harder in that you need to forward three ports rather than one (:

[vague grail]

#toohardbasket

[eternal ravine]

is this the only way?

[feral dawn]

Hosting it at home, yes

[vague grail]

well, unless you wan to pay for hosting elsewhere.

[feral dawn]

if u rent a VPS or rent the server directly from a provider, then they will do all of that for you.

[quick mist]

you can host it elsewhere, but you still need to set it up. or pay someone to set it up for you but that's less cost-effective

[feral dawn]

to be fair, there are thousands of youtube tutorials online on how to port forward

not every router is the same, but the principle is the same, no matter what router you have usually.

[vague grail]

Hell, you could probably even figure it out by following a 'how to setup a minecraft server' and there are jillions of those.

[feral dawn]

ye very true

[outer basin]

@vague grail I still dont know what the problem was but i restarted the server i was running docker on and it seems the problem has been fixed. Thanks for the help eventhough the stupid "maybe you should turn it on and off" did the trick xD

[vague grail]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[feral dawn]

It's pretty nuts how much more CPU the server uses just because a player is connected.

like 60% to 100-105% with a single player connected.

[slim spoke]

haha

[vague grail]

well its running a full physics simulation. Not much required if the game 'stops' if noone is on.

[feral dawn]

i have mine set to keep running when no one is online

but i guess it's just all of the extra tick data having to be sent to the client, causing extra CPU load.

[shadow ridge]

Probably a silly question here, but has anyone gotten mods working on dedicated servers? Like the ones for extra body slots or quicker pod return times

[slim spoke]

no mods

[vague grail]

#no

[feral dawn]

Pretty sure SML isnt even ready for Update 5 yet, but that's a question for their discord.

[hushed gate]

Ask for mods over at the [official modding discord](#welcome message). - <3 @slim spoke

Nov 18, 2021, 12:54 AM

[vague grail]

good bot

[feral dawn]

seems like a fun coding challenge to get mods to work on a dedicated server, im sure.

[shadow ridge]

Ah

Trying to remember if some of the mods I'm thinking of were exclusively client side or not. I would imagine it would break things if the server or other clients didn't have matching ones though

[vague grail]

I wouldn't expect mods to become available until U5 hits EA. too much stuff changes for them to be able to reliably release stable stuff

especially with the engine upgrade.

[shadow ridge]

Makes sense. I didn't realize how often the experimental builds update. It seems like once a day

[slim spoke]

mod loader crashes the game

u should just goto the modding discord and learn

[shadow ridge]

So what's this about the engine upgrade?

[vague grail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJyfSle4o_U

[slim spoke]

they updated the engine to 4.27 or whatever is in patch notes

[shadow ridge]

Are you saying this game could get even better? This game is already insanely well polished

[minor whale]

mods

theres mods

[slim spoke]

wrong discord this is for vanilla game

[feral dawn]

for update 4 yes

[feral dawn]

https://ficsit.app/

[minor whale]

i know i didnt know there was mods bud

[vague grail]

Its an unreal engine update. Prettier graphics, differentish physics. Lighting etc.

[shadow ridge]

Oh so the engine upgrade already happened? Said 9/21

[vague grail]

in U5 yes.

[feral dawn]

Yeah

[shadow ridge]

U5 is the experimental build right?

[feral dawn]

Yeah

[vague grail]

correct

[feral dawn]

DX12 yay? 😄

[vague grail]

"experimental"

[shadow ridge]

Might be my poor sense of taste but I didn't notice right away. I always figured this game was already at 100% goodness visually

[vague grail]

do you play in the desert at all?

[shadow ridge]

Exclusively

Lmao

[vague grail]

because the ambient lighting is WAY different than it was

[shadow ridge]

The pure veins galore are where it's at

[vague grail]

reddit has a whole factoryporn gallery with the differences between the versions.

[shadow ridge]

Gonna have to check that out in a bit

[versed merlin]

Best description for it ever. Several times I’ve gone “unnnf!” …and then run off to try recreating what I’ve seen.

[quick mist]

So.. Explorers and Tractors do not seem to be bringing up the path-recording menu anymore with today's update. This happening for anyone else?

[vague grail]

pressing V?

[quick mist]

That is what I am trying, yes. no radial pop-up

[vague grail]

Oh is that the bug where if you run over something it bugs out?

at least I think that's what does it.

[quick mist]

so theoretically rebuilding the vehicle may fix it?

let me test

[vague grail]

or disconnecting/reconnecting

I haven't tried rebuilding

[quick mist]

nope, no joy

(nothing to disconnect an Explorer from exactly; this isn't a train I'm troubleshooting right now)

[vague grail]

I meant from the server.

I have no idea how to reproduce the issue, but I have run into it a few times before

[quick mist]

...oh (:

[vague grail]

ooh but I do like this:

I haven't seen that before

though putting the truck on autopilot just seems like i've got an old man pumping the gas pedal lurching forward.. 😦

And I think that's the antenna banging on the truck making that weird noise.

[versed merlin]

Hush. And get off my lawn.

[fallow vault]

I'm having the same problem but it only happens on server not solo play. and no it's not server lag.

[toxic shale]

Sooo anyone have any tips to increase server performance that's running between 10-100 players?.......... lol

[versed merlin]

Sure. Don't do that.

[slim spoke]

all you can do is mess with any and all engine tweaks in inis ... lots of digging to gather info

[toxic shale]

Ummm oops? haha

[toxic shale]

Hmm I will take a look, not going to mess with anything too crazy dont want to break it completely haha

[slim spoke]

they did though just update servers to multithread so u should test again

now server can use all cores and 25 worker threads or something

not just 1 core and thread like u tested on

[toxic shale]

oh nice, was that the update this morning?

[slim spoke]

yup

[toxic shale]

Sweet! Thats good to know

I am just hoping I don't hit a world size cap soon.

[versed merlin]

🤷‍♂️ The game's being tuned for four players max. If you wanna go tweaking to bump that up, feel free; but keep in mind that that's all at your own risk. 🙂

There are some tweaks you can do in the inis but the most I've seen is 20 players and I can't even imagine just how laggy that server was 😄

[toxic shale]

Oh i know haha, I know this is NOT what they were trying to do with servers, its just fun

We hit 105, it was pretty interesting lol

[slim spoke]

ya but he did a community event to test servers and see how many they could get on a server

video i seen went rather well .. i wasnt expecting it to be that good

was nice to see the server perform

[toxic shale]

Yeah it was pretty surprising

[slim spoke]

when i seen over 40 and building rather smoothly it was amazing

considering balanced like he said at 4

[versed merlin]

As for your question, the usual would apply, I imagine: More ram, faster disks. Currently, I'd suspect that the bottleneck will be the CPU threading.

[slim spoke]

that was patched today cubgeek

all cores and 25 worker threads

not 1/1

[versed merlin]

Luckily that was increased today. But even in testing, I'm still seeing a single core capped out, and only one or two other cores utilized on occasion, even though there's lots of worker threads. But, such is the "Life Experimental" 😄

[quick mist]

elipsis.

[versed merlin]

You've gone to Ludicrous Speed!!!

[fervent crow]

faster than a tesla

[slim spoke]

amazon who?

[fervent crow]

might actually be working..

its not all the time but when rendering new or alot all the sudden(like riding in on train to factory) cores spike.

[native spruce]

So..Ima guess im the only one who cant start the serveR?

I get this every time...

Im all ears for ideas 🙂 If you can help a poor soul lol

[fervent crow]

did you try with -NOSTEAM?

[native spruce]

I did not, I shall try it!

Same thing..

[slim spoke]

looks like server wasnt just anon downloaded and setup right

[native spruce]

E:\gameservers\satisfactoryserver\FactoryServer.exe FactoryServer.exe -log -unattended -NOSTEAM

steamcmd +login anonymous +force_install_dir C:\GameServers\SatisfactoryServer +app_update 1690800 validate +quit And thats the command I used to download..

Just change dir

I cant find a conf file of any sort to make any other modifications.

Am I just blind lol.

[slim spoke]

most u have to create

[native spruce]

I went through this guide, is there a different one thats better? https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers

[slim spoke]

did u try that nosteam

[native spruce]

I did.

[vague grail]

instead of using an icon, did you try running it from the CLI?

[slim spoke]

why is target factoryserver.exe factoryserver.exe

is ur folder named factoryserver.exe?

or did u accidently double the cmd

[native spruce]

There’s only one factory server.exe. But the folder name is satisfactoryserver

Like CD to that folder and run the exe @vague grail ?

[vague grail]

in whatever terminal you prefer, yes.

[slim spoke]

look in pic and ur cmd line u pasted b4

[fervent crow]

E:\gameservers\satisfactoryserver*FactoryServer.exe FactoryServer.exe* -log -unattended -NOSTEAM

[slim spoke]

ChrisCaseyy — Today at 11:07 PM
E:\gameservers\satisfactoryserver\FactoryServer.exe FactoryServer.exe -log -unattended -NOSTEAM

fix that

[native spruce]

That’s fixed. Still fails

[slim spoke]

i see the exe in ur pic above for target

[vague grail]

lets not run before you walk. Make sure you can run the server AT ALL before trying to get comfy with UI/shortcut nonsense.

[slim spoke]

just as long as u fixed it

dont need any little things that could be bad lol

[fervent crow]

potato

[native spruce]

Yeah no, I caught what you meant and went back throughj

[slim spoke]

i know its a simple fix i just cant remember it

[native spruce]

Yeah I am working on CD'ing to the location now to run via cli

[slim spoke]

try searching for nosteam in here

this room

i have memory issues but ill try to remember

like is it in a docker or something

[fervent crow]

you can hold shft and right click and it will give you an option to open command terminal here or something like that

[slim spoke]

you might even find it on bug site

been enough with that it should show up somewhere

[native spruce]

CLI does same thing, crashes.

[fervent crow]

copy your full command

[native spruce]

Lol, I could have Ginger, but I am a net admin and I am so used to CLI that I just forget the easy stuff sometimes because im stubborn I suppose. Or maybe just forgetfull 😛

[vague grail]

other than your operating environment being some form of windows, what else is on that host.

[native spruce]

Nothing, its a fresh VM win 10, installed this morning for this purpose only.

[slim spoke]

why not linux vm ?

[vague grail]

^

[native spruce]

Running on Esxi, 250 GB of the 14tb ssd farm dedi to it, and 8 cores.

Eh, I just wanted to try winders.

[slim spoke]

ahh

[native spruce]

I could through her on my ubuntu or cent just didnt feel like it lol

[slim spoke]

i get it 🙂 just had to ask u know

[native spruce]

Cant blame ya 😛

Im used to linux too, Had to with the job I do.

Wanted to stop remembering distros for my hobby 😛

[slim spoke]

im just trying to not think on that issue so maybe it will pop into head

[native spruce]

Runs into the same Red errors about API

Sorry AppID

[vague grail]

i can't remember isn't -NOSTEAM case sensitive/

[slim spoke]

try putting -nosteam before other switches

[native spruce]

Righto one sec

[slim spoke]

and that ^

oh switches shouldnt be

[native spruce]

failed. Lol

Oops didnt try case sense

One sec

Same result

[slim spoke]

did u run steamcmd as admin?

[vague grail]

if you blow away the folder and reinstall from steamcmd, did it throw any weird errors?

[slim spoke]

lol

i hate windows servers lol

[native spruce]

LOL at this point I might nuke it

Lol

[slim spoke]

there is a simple fix for it though

[native spruce]

I actually already did the install from Steamcmd twice just to make sure I didnt mess it up.

(Like deleted and did again)

[slim spoke]

but i would just spin another for now til someone is in who remembers

[vague grail]

So you followed the steamCMD instructions as well and have that running on the host?

[native spruce]

Yesm

Yeah ill spin up a Cent and throw it on there, I think thats supported.

[vague grail]

or just throw it into docker.

[native spruce]

Oi, I need to re-do my docker vm

[fervent crow]

use the ubuntu CMD in windows.

[vague grail]

^

[native spruce]

??

[vague grail]

WSL2

[native spruce]

I think I might be misunderstanding