Weird heavy stuttering in MP server

[Celio]

so i rent a Gportal server the singaporean server, and everytime i play on that server my character stutter so badly it even took me a while to fall down from a cliff because the character keep doing backward and forward stuttering, it also happened to my wife and brother but if i host this doesnt happen not to me and not to them, anyone experiencing this? is this the Gportal or is this Palworld problem?

sorry and thank you

[StarsSapphire]

I think its a combo mate, i run one on Nitrado
And i have the same issue now and then

[Celio]

ah glad its not just me

[Gnome026]

its all servers. i went to singeplayer until theres more server stability.

[Dindunuphen]

Server hosting is still in its infancy. That's why you don't lag so much when you host a dedicated session. Background processing for multiplayer servers, regardless of who you go through, is laughably bad especially in open world massive multiplayer online role playing games. This is why most multiplayer services suck nowadays. Nobody is running dedicated servers. It's all hosted by somebody else rather than done more efficiently with better performance through dedicated servers. Minecraft is infected by the same heavy stuttering you're talking about just like Ark Survival Evolved was. You'd get better performance with just a 2nd PC running a dedicated server 24/7 or whenever you and your family or friends are active.

[Nuru ღ]

I run a few of my own physical dedies for various friend circles. It's a RAM issue. Allocate more (or buy more if you're renting). Also try to restart the server daily to nip any leaks.

To my surprise, I think even a potato processor could run a PW server.

Edit: Honestly if you have at least a 5600X or equivalent and 32gb+ of RAM, you could easily run the server on your PC (and play on it), for just the cost of the extra electricity usage.

[Teratus]

I'm no expert but from what i've been told this game is hogging RAM like no tomorrow and there are RAM leaks to boot.
On top of that the servers you're playing Palworld on likely host other games too or other Palworld servers so all of them are eating up RAM too.

Palworld is apparently causing issues for other games too because of this.

[OakenWoaden]

Yeah it’s an unfortunate issue and has turned me off playing Ark or Palworld. I’ve got great internet and a great machine so it’s frustrating getting that .5 to 1 second rubber band lag (at minimum- it’s much worse on a full server). I don’t know how people can enjoy the game until it’s fixed. Will it be fixed? Anyway to play with a seamless MP experience?

[Celio]

Originally posted by Ninurukagala ღ:

I run a few of my own physical dedies for various friend circles. It's a RAM issue. Allocate more (or buy more if you're renting). Also try to restart the server daily to nip any leaks.

To my surprise, I think even a potato processor could run a PW server.

Edit: Honestly if you have at least a 5600X or equivalent and 32gb+ of RAM, you could easily run the server on your PC (and play on it), for just the cost of the extra electricity usage.

Yea my machine have more than enough juice to host but I can't always play, and I'm not comfortable in leaving my machine on while I work or socialize that's why I rent the mp server so my gf and brother can play anytime, oh well if it is what it is there's nothing I can do about it I guess

[mikus]

Originally posted by Teratus:

I'm no expert but from what i've been told this game is hogging RAM like no tomorrow and there are RAM leaks to boot.
On top of that the servers you're playing Palworld on likely host other games too or other Palworld servers so all of them are eating up RAM too.

Palworld is apparently causing issues for other games too because of this.

I'm running a server on ubuntu vm on a dedicated local kvm server with resources for days, giving it 12 cores (out of 20 on 2 cpu) and 16gb of ram (can give it far more from 128gb), but running it usually sits at 2-3gb use *normally*.

I noticed the other day after playing it was sitting at 8gb usage, then tonight it's at 14 after myself and my aunt playing on my server. I can give it more ram, but not if it's just going to memory leak like hell. I'll try 32gb just to see, but grr.

I still get a ton of lag, stutter, and end up running perpetually at times for 5+ seconds before the game catches up whether I fresh restart or to the point the lag is painful when I just noticed it creeping up on the limit. I don't get this in single player running everything on ultra with a 3080 in my laptop using arch linux and a modern kernel. I am restarting the server daily to make shut down the server, back it up, and start it back up, which seems to keep it in control, but after a night of play it's coming unglued for sure.

Watching the processes in linux using htop, I can see there's one main process using most of the cpu, and a bunch of smaller threads, but I never see much load, and certainly only tend to use 8 threads or so small or large, so I presume it's not terribly thread optimized. The memory leaking is massive, and I can only imagine the early server is a mess in general. As well this system is using dual nvme in raid1, and have absolutely no performance issues with this system normally, iotop never shows any problems with disk access wait issues.

I suspect the application is just highly inefficient at this point and waiting for someone to profile the software properly to optimize.

I love the game so far, really hope they improve on the server with an infusion of sales cash now.