Project Zomboid

Project Zomboid

Yuri-chan Nov 24, 2024 @ 7:44am
Trapped in the black void on dedicated server
First of all, we're playing on heavily modded server (with 133 modded maps...)
Server is running in docker container on Linux. Server has 6 cores, 32gb ram.

When riding car at some point we face a huge black void. We can't go further because our car refuse to move forward in the void. We can't use windows of the car. Zombies in the area don't die (We can kill them but they lay on the ground alive in a loop animation). This black void wall appears around us and we can't leave it.
Other players report that the driver of the car is stuck on one place and can't see each other.
The only temporarily solution we found is to rejoin the server. After it only our characters are rolled 5-10 minutes back in time, but not the car. It stays on the place we left the server.

Our ping is stable around 30 even when this void bug happens. Server at peak use 8gb of ram and uses only 1 core of 6 available.
What can be the problem here? Is it ram, mods or something else?
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Beard Nov 24, 2024 @ 11:34am 
Are you driving with passengers in the same vehicle? Does it also happen when driving alone?
Yuri-chan Nov 24, 2024 @ 1:07pm 
Originally posted by Beard:
Are you driving with passengers in the same vehicle? Does it also happen when driving alone?

Yes, I'm driving with passengers but I'm not riding much alone so I can't know about second question.
Lu5ck Nov 25, 2024 @ 2:46am 
Originally posted by Yuri-chan:
First of all, we're playing on heavily modded server (with 133 modded maps...)
Server is running in docker container on Linux. Server has 6 cores, 32gb ram.

When riding car at some point we face a huge black void. We can't go further because our car refuse to move forward in the void. We can't use windows of the car. Zombies in the area don't die (We can kill them but they lay on the ground alive in a loop animation). This black void wall appears around us and we can't leave it.
Other players report that the driver of the car is stuck on one place and can't see each other.
The only temporarily solution we found is to rejoin the server. After it only our characters are rolled 5-10 minutes back in time, but not the car. It stays on the place we left the server.

Our ping is stable around 30 even when this void bug happens. Server at peak use 8gb of ram and uses only 1 core of 6 available.
What can be the problem here? Is it ram, mods or something else?

How many players?
What is the server CPU GB6 score?
You can test using YABS[github.com]
curl -sL https://yabs.sh | bash -s -- -fi
Void usually caused by server not able to keep up with the load, typically resolved by getting a faster CPU or removing server-side heavy mods.
Beard Nov 25, 2024 @ 2:53am 
Originally posted by Yuri-chan:
Originally posted by Beard:
Are you driving with passengers in the same vehicle? Does it also happen when driving alone?

Yes, I'm driving with passengers but I'm not riding much alone so I can't know about second question.
I would suggest testing it, it is very likely that the issue is caused by some heavy desync between all the passengers. It can happen if the ping of any single passenger gets too high or if the FPS of the passengers are too variable at this moment.
Yuri-chan Nov 25, 2024 @ 9:39am 
Originally posted by Beard:
Originally posted by Yuri-chan:

Yes, I'm driving with passengers but I'm not riding much alone so I can't know about second question.
I would suggest testing it, it is very likely that the issue is caused by some heavy desync between all the passengers. It can happen if the ping of any single passenger gets too high or if the FPS of the passengers are too variable at this moment.

Probably this is the reason. Passengers reported having a huge fps drop up to 1 fps when before this problem happen.
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Date Posted: Nov 24, 2024 @ 7:44am
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