You should probably try on one of the more generic forum threads, this one is mostly for support and maintenance for people running their own PC servers, considering you wrote “PSN” I assume you are playing on PlayStation, which means nobody on this page could play with you (it’s for the PC version of the game).

Sorry

While my main PC was busy performing the ritual of upgrading Windows 10, rebooting, upgrading Visual Studio, rebooting, upgrading .NET framework, rebooting, … I used the second machine to do a quick change to add @Struan feature request (I already had all the code, it was just a matter of adding a checkbox, check for “Steam.exe”, ask it to close).

1.0.41 (30 July 2019)

• Added a “Close Steam Client on Server Startup” option
  Dedicated Server Launcher 1.0.41

The checkbox is on the top left:

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Sorry for the lack of answers, I was busy trying to not die from meltdown in sunny France

I can ask the team.

When the server is hanging up, do you end up killing it manually?
If yes, before doing that, maybe you could open the task manager and create a memory dump of the game server process and put it somewhere where we can access it and look in the debugger what the server is waiting on (deadlock, mutex, etc…)

That’s doable, I’ll add that to my todo list.

In these situations I try to get back to the basics until I get this part working: If you don’t get the green light, t...

Interesting.

Have to see if that would work from a Win32 GUI C++ application, could be an alternate way to stop the program I guess.

I gave a shot at fixing the problem, the check was actually incomplete.
Hopefully that fixes it, but I can’t give a 100% guarantee.

I’m releasing it like that because I’m soon leaving for the summer holidays break, so I’d rather having you try it now so I get a chance to fix a problem before I leave.

1.0.40 (1 July 2019)

• Fixed the ModUpdate check to not trigger if the auto-restart has already displayed the first warning message
  Dedicated Server Launcher 1.0.40

Could you find me the logs of the Dedicated Server Launcher for this particular day so I can take a look at the sequence of events?

Are you using the app without problems ?

I got a SteamCMD error on the first launch, but it worked fine on the second launch, so that could just be a flakyness problem caused by the Steam Summer Sales (performance problems, etc…).

I assume you have plenty of disk space on the machine?

Have you checked the content of the Logs folder, if the “stderr.txt” or any of the other txt files generated by SteamCMD contains interesting information?

Could you detail a bit more?

My problem is solved, it is still caused by the forwarding problem of the router, thank you very much!
Now it’s working fine, great tool!

Nice

However, some animals (rhino, elephant, etc.) in the H7 area during the first run are available

I unfortunately cannot help with anything game related - I’m not an actual member of the Conan Exiles team, I just happen to maintain this specific launcher tool -.

For things related to game problems, you should use the other forums, there are probably other persons encountering issues with NPCs not respawning.

Good luck!

When testing for port forwarding, a good idea is to eliminate all unknown, so in your case I would do the test with the firewall disabled.

Regarding the port forwarding, are you using static IPs or DHCP? Sometimes it happens that routers allow you to port forward on the IP, but when the machine is setup to use DHCP, on the next reboot it may have a different IP and everything fails. (In this case it’s better to set up a fixed IP on the router by associating it to the MAC/Hardware address of the network card on the PC)

I assume the machine has only one network card?

Just to be sure: When you test the port, you don’t have the server or game running?

Regarding the 6 gigs of ram, I fear you are not going to do much with the machine, it’s very limited…

I’m not sure I understood t...

Ok, next time this happens, could you create a memory dump of the application and put it somewhere I can download it ?

Depending of how long the program has been running, and what the problem is, we can expect the DedicatedServerLauncher.DMP file to be anywhere from a few megabytes to (hopefully not) a couple gigabyte.

You can create it from the task Manager:

As explained in the Network Configuration section of the first post at the top, it can be caused by a number of things:

• Firewall not allowing the connections
• Incorrect port forwarding values
• Ports already used by something else
• …

as long as the results are red, don’t try to fix the rest, that would just be a waste of time

So, a few questions:

• What type o...

I fear I have no other idea at this point :-/
I thought I had fixed the core issue, but obviously it’s still there.

In the recent versions of the server, changing parameters while the server is running tends to not work, because the server rewrites data, which undo changes.

Try to set the check box, then save, then start the server.

But I am using the 1039 beta version ( when you have fixed the max limit player value ) . Is there any change between the 1039 beta and official ?

Exactly the same version, it’s actually the same download link, it’s only the page description that changes.

What about Minimize/Maximize?
Does that also get disabled?

Have you tried to resize it from the bottom, see if that helps “pop back” the correct dimensions?

Nope, I did not know (or I missed it).

When you write “after each reboot”, do you mean “reboot of the machine”, or is it at each restart of the server?

Hi,
this is covered by the FAQ in the first post:

Q: Can this tool be used to manage Xbox or PS4 servers?

A: We are unfortunately not allowed by game console publishers to release server executable to the public. (I guess they probably fear that they could be hacked and allow people to play online without having the right subscription level.)

Sorry

I believe the only way at the moment to get the server to cleanly close is to send it a WM_QUIT or WM_CLOSE message.

In the Dedicated Server Launcher tool, I actually use this code:

void DedicatedServerLauncher::ShutdownGameServer()
{
  DW_Print(INFOL_IMPORTANT, e_DedicatedServerLauncher, "Shutting down the game server");

  // http://stanislavs.org/stopping-command-line-applications-programatically-with-ctrl-c-events-from-net/
  HWND handle = dw::win32::FindProcessMainWindow(m_ServerProcessId);
  if (handle)
  {
    PostMessage(handle, WM_CLOSE, 0, 0);
    m_ServerShuttingDown = true;
  }
}

not sure if that will help you, but that’s all I have at the moment

Cool
Thanks for the report!

Good
I don’t think I had any computer or screen around with that resolution… for at least 15 years, did not even though that would be a problem

Does putting in a region restrict players to only that region?

I’m honestly not 100% certain what the impact of the region parameter is.

I have a friend from another country who shows he can’t find my server, but I can use my other computer and find it perfectly fine. He has tried searching the server name, and using the ip address, but so far the server can’t be located for him.

The server list is a mess, specially on PC: Basically the Steam API we are using to populate this list is not able to show all the servers, so it uses some heuristics to determine which...

Hi,
that’s easy to check, just run your server directly and look at the memory usage

If you are not sure where the executable is located, either look at the top of the launcher (you have the full path to the game server executable) or click on one of the two icons on the bottom left, and from these folders move up until you find the conan executable.

Ok, let’s try to get a baseline:

Can you try to see if you can get a fully functional server while not running anything at all other than the server: No client, no chrome, no antivirus, no other game, no fancy resident software in the tray area, no vpn, … just the server launcher and the game server from a clean reboot.

If you use another machine, can you ...

You have to excuse me on that point, there are so many people participating, on this forum thread and other messages, that keeping track of who said what is extremely difficult

Conan alone runs fine. I did some tries with an offical and unoffical server. I could get past both usual discopoints for my server. staying about 1 min on charcreation or finishing one and trying to play = crash on mine.

Now I’m confused… I thought your problem was that you were getting disconnected / unable to connect, not crashes???