So our server is pretty new and we have been growing, which is a great thing. I truly enjoy being able to create a server that people enjoy and make friends and want to stick around. I’m running into a problem now, though and I am completely stumped on how to fix it.
Server performance is great until we hit 10+ online players and then the server fps becomes unstable and drops down to 8fps-15fps and I can’t figure out why. I pay a lot of money for the bare metal dedicated server that I rent out of a data center, but it’s unmanaged and they only provide support when hardware is faulty.
Here is our rig setup:
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2630L v3 CPU
64 GB RAM
1.6TB NVMe Storage
10TB Monthly Transfer Bandwidth on a 10Gbps Port
Windows 10 OS
I have the Power Usage Settings for Windows 10 set to “Performance”
I tried just using the OS as is, and have tried using a reputable Windows OS Debloater for Essential OS tweaks, and disabled some of the basic unnecessary background processes, and disabled programs like OneDrive and Cortana. Server performance remained unchanged between the out-of-the-box OS settings and the “Debloated” tweaks.
I pay a lot of money for this dedicated server rental, and was happy to spend what we pay for it because majority of the time, you get what you pay for. I’m very grateful that the players in my server are kind and understanding while I figure this out, but surely with a bare metal dedicated server I should be getting better performance than a $30/month virtual dedicated server from a host like Nitrado or GPortal.
We use the Funcom Dedicated Server Launcher to run the server. The settings are set to “High Priority” and “Use all available resources” is checked, and I have all but one of the 32 cores checked as per the recommendation so that one of the cores can be utilized for the base OS of the server.
I have the max FPS set to 30 FPS per the recommendation on the Funcom Dedicated Server Launcher for stability and we still drop down to these low framerates when 10+ people are connected.
We do have a lot of mods on the server, but I’ve played on servers with even more mods than we have that had a lot of players on at the same time with no framerate issues. Can anyone give me advice on what I could be doing wrong, or how I could fix this problem?
I’ve been trying really hard to research this for myself and try to troubleshoot the issue, but I haven’t found much information available. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!