So for the last few weeks, I have been trying to host a private dedicated server for some friends and fellow family. I have been dealing with an issue regarding ping. the server is heavily modded (69 mods infact) and it idles around 300 to 400ms.
I have done a test host of a minecraft server and I host a media center and those run just fine. I do wonder if it’s due to me running it on a mechanical hard disk drive rather than a Solid State Drive.
Update: My dad tried hosting it on his computer (80GB RAM, NVMe SSD, Ryzen 5) and the ping was still bad with the mods. 192 to 296ms. I am convinced it’s either mods or just this game not being very well optimized, especially with networking.
The i5 3570 is WAY old and will not even run vanilla too nicely to begin with, I bet it struggles when a player goes around Al-Merayah or runs a purge, and if you have several players on the server it will quickly be hell.
And with mods? No chance.
If you are seeing issues on a more modern machine too (Ryzen 5000?) then likely your modlist is bad as well though.
Funcom will not help with mods, go there and post your modlist:
I have ran it vanilla and the ping is 20ms which is perfect. We have tested it with a few big mods, such as Age of Calamitous and those are fine as well. until we put in something like Thralls Are Alive. then it seems to go to hell when it comes to ping. I have ran multiple players vanilla and there was no issues. I do think it’s probably mods now.
I do know that Funcom doesn’t help with mods, but I was hoping that somebody on the forum would help me figure it out. Also so then if somebody has a similar issue they can just look it up here and find the solution.
yes I have. it runs at 20ms unmodded. I think we finally figured it out. it seems to be one of the thrall mods we added in and another mod not playing nice with it.
Edit: for anybody else with a similar issue, it’s one of the Valkyrie addons. We had to put it above Age of Calamitous. Which although not reccomendd by the mod author, seems to fix a glitch of it saying a thrall is max level when they’re level 0. Haven’t tested with the server yet.
