I-l-skull-l-I Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 I run a dedicated server from my PC for a couple of friends and myself to play on. Ever since we've switched to PC 7 Days from PlayStation, we've had issues of them being kicked seemingly randomly. They're running the game on some Macbooks apparently, so I assume that it could be their hardware having issues running the game well and that causes them to lose connection to the server. But the thing about that is that they say they have the exact same type of macbook bought around the same time and one gets kicked from the server far more often than the other. Like disproportionately so. During a few hours session with them, the one friend can get kicked from the server like 5 to 10 times while the other only drops maybe once or twice. We play with a fair amount of mods on the server, but after updating to alpha 20 we've disabled all the mods and they still get kicked a lot. I'm not the kind of person who hosts game servers often, so I'm not really sure if its from my end or their end. I've noticed that when I hear them saying that their game froze(probably due to their computers struggling to handle it) they usually get kicked/crash shortly after. They say that when they host a private world and play together, neither or them get kicked ever. Even when they have the random few second freezes because their computers are struggling. Which really confuses me. Is there something I'm missing about this issue? Any possible fixes that I haven't realized yet? Besides maybe just a hardware upgrade for them. Is there some dedicated server text I could post that could help figure out the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFT2020 Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 1 hour ago, I-l-skull-l-I said: Is there something I'm missing about this issue? Any possible fixes that I haven't realized yet? Besides maybe just a hardware upgrade for them. Is there some dedicated server text I could post that could help figure out the problem? Yes logs and computer specs. Difficult to assist if we don’t have that information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I-l-skull-l-I Posted December 7, 2021 Author Share Posted December 7, 2021 Sorry, but how can I get logs? And what exact part of them do you need to see? I hope I'm not too annoying or anything for being so clueless. I've just never ran a dedicated server like this before and don't really know much about logs and stuff like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFT2020 Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 has all the juicy details in there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I-l-skull-l-I Posted December 8, 2021 Author Share Posted December 8, 2021 (edited) Oops. I guess I should have read that before posting this. I was just too busy stressing over figuring this out, I didn't even notice that thread. Now I feel like a jerk. I'm having an issue trying to post my log on the sites suggested in that post. Pastebin says its too big and I need a pro account, but it won't let me get a pro account. And justpasteit freezes when I try to paste the log into it. Is there any other way I can post the log? Edit. Nevermind, got it to work. Here's the log. I guess. Never done this before, so I hope this is all of it. https://justpaste.it/1lm33 I don't have the specs for my friends computers, all I really know is "Macbooks". I can get the specs for my pc if that helps at all? I'm not super savvy when it comes to specs, but I got this list from where I bought my pc. Operating system: Windows 10 Home Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 5 3500 Processor Memory: 8 GB DDR4-2666 SDRAM memory (1 x 8 GB) Internal Storage: 256 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 Solid State Drive Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 SUPER™ graphics card with 4 GB GDDR6 dedicated memory Edited December 8, 2021 by I-l-skull-l-I (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beelzybub Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 On 12/7/2021 at 1:41 AM, I-l-skull-l-I said: but after updating to alpha 20 we've disabled all the mods Your log shows a number of mods trying to load. You should delete those and make a new world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I-l-skull-l-I Posted December 8, 2021 Author Share Posted December 8, 2021 17 minutes ago, Beelzybub said: Your log shows a number of mods trying to load. You should delete those and make a new world. Yeah, forgot to mention that. We only added mods yesterday but before that there was none. It's odd, when we were using no mods in a brand new world they were being kicked/crashing often. But yesterday, after we added a handful of mods, they managed to play for hours without dropping connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I-l-skull-l-I Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 Bump, I guess? Not sure if anyone is still willing to help me. I messed around with stuff and ended up switching the unused network protocol from Steam Networking to LiteNetLib and that's seemed to stop the kicks but its also added strange lag spikes that happen randomly. Is there any way to fix the lag spikes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star69 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Take a look at this thread from A17.....different alpha, I know, but these folks were experiencing what you are experiencing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 (edited) Are you trying to run a dedicated server on the same computer you're playing on? Ram is a bit low for this game and so is your CPU for hosting. Otherwise, you can do one, but not both on the same computer. Also, "Macbook" says nothing about their performance since they range from absolute trash to "ok" performance in gaming. This could be anything from bad network latency / slow internet connection to bad server setup to bad macbooks. Keep in mind that download speeds aren't everything... you need good upload as well if you want to host a server. More info is needed to diagnose the issue. Edited December 12, 2021 by Fox (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I-l-skull-l-I Posted December 12, 2021 Author Share Posted December 12, 2021 Yes, I'm running the server from the same computer. I didn't think it would cause that much of an issue. Does it really impact performance that much? Would it be better if I rented a server through Nitrado or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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