How do you start a dedicated server for PZ

[lovemyozzy]

i have a sff hp PC with a i5 4570 and 16gb of ram with a 500gb hdd. I just wanted to start a 32 person server and figured that this would work i just don't know how to start one

[Armagenesis]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2682141370

This guide has everything you need to know. If you want to have dedicated server, you'd probably want to rent a server instead. Since hosting it on your own machine will most likely cost more in electricity bill.

[Lu5ck]

If you gonna do modded server, your CPU won't be able to handle 30 pax. In fact, I wonder if it is able to handle 30 pax vanilla.

[Dabbydoodaar]

Originally posted by lovemyozzy:

i have a sff hp PC with a i5 4570 and 16gb of ram with a 500gb hdd. I just wanted to start a 32 person server and figured that this would work i just don't know how to start one

if you want to use mods you will struggle with only 16gb of ram. you got to remember each player joining will use 200mb+ and once they build and zombies load in you willbe using atleast 10gb jsut to run the server no counting players but if you want to run a dedicated server from your pc heres how

-First go to your drive that pzis install, go to users and delete the zomboid folder!
-Download steam cmd
-put the steam cmd file into a folder on your desktop, call the fold pz server or anything
-open cmd from the new folder and login anonymously
-update project zomboid app build in cmd and waitfor the files to download
-make sure your port fowarding is added to your router
-now close cmd and in the folder you will see pz server files.

you will be able to launch a server now but first you will want to add more ram to the 64 bat file by right clicking on it open using note pad, Allocate more ram and then save andclose down,

You will find server ini files ont he new zomboid folder you in your users, there you can edit the server name and more

finally you can luanch the 64 bat server exe and that will start the server

[Dabbydoodaar]

Originally posted by Lu5ck:

If you gonna do modded server, your CPU won't be able to handle 30 pax. In fact, I wonder if it is able to handle 30 pax vanilla.

this guy is wrong your cpu will be fine, your ram will become the problem if you get more then 10 players

[Dabbydoodaar]

Originally posted by Armagenesis:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2682141370

This guide has everything you need to know. If you want to have dedicated server, you'd probably want to rent a server instead. Since hosting it on your own machine will most likely cost more in electricity bill.

this guy is incorrect it will cost the same amount of electricity on your pc wether you run a server or not!

[Dabbydoodaar]

Originally posted by lovemyozzy:

i have a sff hp PC with a i5 4570 and 16gb of ram with a 500gb hdd. I just wanted to start a 32 person server and figured that this would work i just don't know how to start one

i have a 512gb dedicated server thats not in use if you would like to use it for free and have admin access

[stupid invertebrate dog]

Originally posted by Dab:

Originally posted by Armagenesis:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2682141370

This guide has everything you need to know. If you want to have dedicated server, you'd probably want to rent a server instead. Since hosting it on your own machine will most likely cost more in electricity bill.

this guy is incorrect it will cost the same amount of electricity on your pc wether you run a server or not!

it really depends on where you live tbh. for me it would cost more in electricity but thats just because the electricity where i live is expensive

[lovemyozzy]

i will try with steam cmd then the guide also how much ram should i get if 16gb is not enough. i would also like to add a few quality of like mods how would i do that with cmd

[lovemyozzy]

update : i got it installed with cmd and it's up just need to know what ports to forward and can find a spot for mods

[Armagenesis]

Originally posted by Dab:

Originally posted by Armagenesis:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2682141370

This guide has everything you need to know. If you want to have dedicated server, you'd probably want to rent a server instead. Since hosting it on your own machine will most likely cost more in electricity bill.

this guy is incorrect it will cost the same amount of electricity on your pc wether you run a server or not!

Idk man. Apparently hosting on a rented server only costs around 5 USD a month. Is having your own PC running 24/7 for a whole month really cost the same? Not to mention you need to somehow keep the PC cool the entire time to prevent it from breaking.

[The Great White Shiekh]

How good is that HDD, i used to run servers off an old HDD, problem i had as the server would hang when it had to load in a new chunk of the map. In game example. you would hit an invisible barrier when you got to a new chunk of the map that needed to be loaded. Sometimes you would get stuck, or have to wait at least a couple minutes for the server to finish loading the area.

I dont know how good yours is, but i would replace the HDD with a SSD.

[lovemyozzy]

i was thinking of replacing the HDD once it fails or it can't keep up with the server i also don't have any problem with having a bit of start up and shut down time. the hdd has an active time of almost 3yrs with caution health status. its read speeds are 125mbs and a write speed 100mbps with a random read of 0.6mbps and a random of 1.6mbps

[Lu5ck]

Originally posted by Dab:

Originally posted by Lu5ck:

If you gonna do modded server, your CPU won't be able to handle 30 pax. In fact, I wonder if it is able to handle 30 pax vanilla.

this guy is wrong your cpu will be fine, your ram will become the problem if you get more then 10 players

Erm. An EPYC 7443 with GB6 single core score of 1.4k has problem running highly modded 30 pax server. Typically, at that point you would need a GB6 single core score of around 2k which is something like an Ryzen 5600x. Modded 100 pax server tend to run with CPU of GB6 single core score of at least 2.6k like an Ryzen 7600.

Running vanilla at 30 pax, well, big question mark if he decide to pump up the zombie count and most people will add some mods, like it or not. 4570 has a GB6 single core score of 1k. Very old cpu, very questionable.

If on linux, can always enable zram. Not as good as additional physical ram but definitely not as worse as swap ram aka ram on disk. Steam Deck and Android both have zram enabled. If on Windows, too bad.

[lovemyozzy]

Update I got it up and running with a static up and port forwarded. I was wondering how to adjust the setting like zombie population and how to get some mods installed basic ones like cars.