Satisfactory (now at 1.1) release

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Anyone else running a dedicated server for this? What are you running it on? Any issues with CPU performance?

Started playing this properly with a couple of mates a few weeks ago, and set up a dedicated server on my ProxMox box running an i7-7700t (it's a Lenovo mini PC), and the VM is set up with 2 cores and 12GB RAM.

Our factory isn't particularly big - we've not even done phase 2 of the space elevator yet, but seem to be getting some terrible lag, with ping jumping up to 2,000ms+ and I'm fairly sure I've pinned it down to the CPU; network traffic is negligible, RAM never goes above ~40%, but after keeping an eye on it while my mate was playing, whenever we get lag spikes, the CPU is pinned at ~50%, at first I thought this wasn't the issue, until I did some further reading and found that the dedicated server is not at all optimised for multi-threading, and is essentially limited by single core performance - being as this is a relatively old & low TDP CPU, this is almost certainly the problem!

Frustrating since we've run multiple different game servers on the same server and never had an issue before :(
 
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Haggisman said:
Anyone else running a dedicated server for this? What are you running it on? Any issues with CPU performance?

Started playing this properly with a couple of mates a few weeks ago, and set up a dedicated server on my ProxMox box running an i7-7700t (it's a Lenovo mini PC), and the VM is set up with 2 cores and 12GB RAM.

Our factory isn't particularly big - we've not even done phase 2 of the space elevator yet, but seem to be getting some terrible lag, with ping jumping up to 2,000ms+ and I'm fairly sure I've pinned it down to the CPU; network traffic is negligible, RAM never goes above ~40%, but after keeping an eye on it while my mate was playing, whenever we get lag spikes, the CPU is pinned at ~50%, at first I thought this wasn't the issue, until I did some further reading and found that the dedicated server is not at all optimised for multi-threading, and is essentially limited by single core performance - being as this is a relatively old & low TDP CPU, this is almost certainly the problem!

Frustrating since we've run multiple different game servers on the same server and never had an issue before :(
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I don't run dedicated server but I'm pretty sure dedicated servers are still a work in progress
 
Brutal biff said:
I don't run dedicated server but I'm pretty sure dedicated servers are still a work in progress
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Interestingly I copied the save files to my PC last night and hosted the dedicated server there, whilst also playing the game on the same PC (with a 5800x3d)

Zero issues for anyone, consistent ping of 10-20ms, no lag, no rubber banding at all, so it's almost certainly the CPU in my server. Unfortunately to get any kind of worthwhile upgrade I'd need to replace the whole thing, looking at £3-400 minimum; just not worth it for a single game which doesn't seem to be optimised properly!

Hopefully you're right and they're still working on the dedicated server, although I suspect we'll be done with the game before any meaningful improvements are made :(
 
A mate and I used to play on a dedicated server he rented. IIRC I had lag issues, I'm not sure he did. In the end he put it on his PC and it was, I think fine but let's just say we played it with it running on his PC from then onwards.
 
Definitely a work in progress, that said I ran one quite happily on an i7 lenovo laptop for a while but it was simply installed directly without any virtual machine shenanigans. It had issues with hypertube use which is why I haven't used it for a while and I never did track down the actual cause but suspect it was simply down to loading speed of the environment and network synchronisation.
 
That's been available for months, kept crashing to desktop whenever I attempted to use it though, ought to give it another go at some point really.
 
I'm not sure I'd like to play in VR as everything feels so massive even on a flat screen that I can see building being a pain. Though maybe a factory tour style after building might be cooler.

Well once I get passed my lack of motivation building my rocket fuel plant and needing to play 1,600 fuel generators.
 
loftie said:
A mate and I used to play on a dedicated server he rented. IIRC I had lag issues, I'm not sure he did. In the end he put it on his PC and it was, I think fine but let's just say we played it with it running on his PC from then onwards.
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Dano said:
Definitely a work in progress, that said I ran one quite happily on an i7 lenovo laptop for a while but it was simply installed directly without any virtual machine shenanigans. It had issues with hypertube use which is why I haven't used it for a while and I never did track down the actual cause but suspect it was simply down to loading speed of the environment and network synchronisation.
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Felon said:
I rented one on GTX for a game with 3-4 people, was worth it - didn't really have any issues with it.
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Been running it since on my PC and no issues at all, even after we figured out over the weekend how build a hypertube to launch us half way across the map :D

Had a quick look at server upgrades as I'm almost certain it's the CPU, but it would be £3-400+ for any meaningful upgrade, so not really worth it just for 1 game...
 
Haggisman said:
Been running it since on my PC and no issues at all, even after we figured out over the weekend how build a hypertube to launch us half way across the map :D

Had a quick look at server upgrades as I'm almost certain it's the CPU, but it would be £3-400+ for any meaningful upgrade, so not really worth it just for 1 game...
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TBH, if you're playing when you're all around then it doesn't really matter too much. The only time it matters is if one of you wants to do something and the host (you) aren't around or your PC is doing something else.
I think some rubber banding may have cropped in towards the end of our play through, but I'm not 100% certain, whereas the dedicated server was having issues from about mid game IIRC.
 
For me, when playing with 3-4 friends who are all hammering the game - it's nice running a dedicated on somewhere like GTX, as people can just login and play when they like.
 
loftie said:
What specs does the server have?
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Location (All Instant Setup): London (5Ghz Intel or Better)
Memory Allocation: Up to 5GB FREE
Hard Disk: NVMe 3500MB/s (Included)
CPU Clock Boost ++: Default Clock Speed
Disk Space: Up to 100GB FREE
CPU Priority: Realtime CPU Priority
VIP Ticket Priority Support: Normal Fast Support Please

was £20 a month I think, (3-4 of us paying for it, so peanuts)

(we cranked the CPU up to realtime when the game got massive, seemed to help a lot from what I can remember)
 
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Duke said:
1.1 came out today, lots of quality of life improvements but a shame to not have any new objectives and things to do. I kind of feel much of this should have been in 1.0.
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Anything other than new objectives will be subject to the same argument, they had to release the game at some point it was in early access for a number of years and was perfectly good upon release at 1.0 and anything QoL that they have added is just that and none of it was needed for release.
 
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