Dedicated Server Starts locking up everyone 2-3 hours on Elysium

[slate silo]

Hey everyone,

I’m wondering if anyone else has run into this issue.

I’ve been playing on a dedicated server with a group for the past few weeks with minimal problems on other maps (Olympus and Prometheus). We recently switched to Elysium, and now every 2–3 hours the server goes into what I can only describe as a “death spiral.”

The server starts freezing up—eventually it unfreezes, but then locks up again within a minute or so. During these freezes, all players are stuck running in place and we can’t interact with anything.

Restarting the server temporarily fixes the issue, but it keeps happening on a consistent cycle.

Server details:

Dedicated server with effectively unlimited RAM (currently using ~12GB)
Strong CPU
Running on SSD storage
Base size is moderate, not excessive
Around 10 tames total

We didn’t experience anything like this on the other maps, so it seems specific to Elysium.

Has anyone else encountered this, or found a fix/workaround?

[knotty musk]

Yeah it is likely the NPC and Drones on the map. It is not really an issue just need to hit that restart more often. The one thing that map has the others do not is the AI. So look at getting into the habit of restarting for every 6hrs or so of gameplay see if that makes a difference. Games like Dayz have the same hang up and it is usually based most on the amount of scripts ran on the server, which is commonly what the AI/NPC run on.
Also make sure that you have Mission Structures set to despawn when mission is complete that too can make the difference.

[slate silo]

thanks fo the info!

[dense isle]

Also having this issue since latest update, dedicated server, game locks up where you can still move but can't interact with anything for a few minutes, sometimes then crashes.
Suspect something with latest patch, maybe the UID work is causing it to get stuck.