Dedicated Server not Launching

[General_Toms]

Hi, I have been creating dedicated servers over the years off and on. I have never ran into this issue. If I launch the dedicated server either through steam or the bat file the first window with press any key to continue pops up but 7 days doesn't load after. If I uninstall and reinstall the first time it loads and launched through steam I will get the Green Text server but once I shut that down I can't get it to start up again. 

 

Has something changed in A21.2?

[General_Toms]

It seems to only work the first time I launch the game. All I can do is uninstall and repeat.  Anyone know what I could do to figure out whats happening or how to fix this?

 

[Jugginator]

Hi, a log file of the server launching/failing would be needed to troubleshoot.

Edited December 14, 2023 by Jugginator (see edit history)

[General_Toms]

Thanks for the reply. Well 2 hours of fiddling I got it to launch. All I really did was keep reinstalling it. 

 

But now I can see it list on Steam Servers but can't join the server.

 

2 messages I get"

Could not retrieve server

 

&

 

Could not retrieve server ID 

 

I have port 26900 opened on both TCP and UDP.

 

Would the log file still help?

[Jugginator]

Possibly, you may be seeing Litenetlib connection failures in the log. You need 26900 TCP, and 26900 through 26902 UDP, as well as firewall/antivirus exclusions