Dedicated Server for Ark Ascended keeps crashing

[Kiba]

Hey there,
I wanted to try out running a server off of my gaming machine while at the same time playing on said server with said gaming machine (yes, I am very inexperienced).

The exact specs are:

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Gigabyte AORUS Pro X AMD X670E

64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 AMD/Intel 6000MHz Kingston Fury Beast RGB

1× 2TB Kingston NV2 M.2 (where Ark Ascended and other games are installed on)

1× 500GB Kingston NV2 M.2 (that's for the OS only, tho I am not sure if I accidentally installed the Server Manager on it instead of the other drives)

4TB Seagate Barracuda HDD (for more games)

24GB ASROCK RX 7900XTX TAICHI OC DDR6

850W Gigabyte UD850GM 80+ Gold

So I've been using two different Ark Server Managers by now, both of them display the exact same behaviour. Everything works fine for around 30 minutes up to an hour and then the server randomly crashes without any notice or message why. Been monitoring my RAM usage and it barely touches 40GiB overall usage with the game and the server running at the same time or while playing on the server. It's not getting unusual hot either.

I've also let it run multiple hours without me playing on it and even that worked perfectly fine. It only seems to happen when I'm actively playing on it. And as I mentioned when I DO actually play on it, there is no lag or anything of sorts.

So I'm kinda wondering now what it could be. As many probably can tell by now I don't really know much about that whole server jazz, just found out that you can basically host your own server on any capable machine for free without having to pay any extra services or such and tried that right away. I've let the Ark (Dedicated) Server Manager let itself configure, launched the server without editing anymore settings other than the usual GMU.ini and Game.ini and jumped straight into it - which also worked completely fine from the very start. So might as well have simply forgotten something or so - since I am only playing by myself and want nobody to join I also skipped that whole wlan Port Forwarding stuff (also because my router doesn't have that feature) but as far as I am aware that shouldn't affect how the server runs?

My guess is that probably the 500GB NV2 isnt enough for the server to run while also playing the game? Or is it because my components aren't just strong enough to do both at the same time. Gotta mention that only I'm playing on the server alone, didn't plan on changing that either. Got around 90ish mods to load and I'm only hosting one map per session (the center). ALSO! This is PRE recent patch! I didn't try running it with the newest patch installed yet.

So yea if anyone has an idea why it could be crashing whenever I'm playing on it, would be great to hear it or maybe just get some tips I should keep in mind for that topic generally.


EDIT:
Tried running the server while playing on it again on the exact same machine WITH the newest patch installed, issue stays the same. Server just crashes at some point, no matter what I do while playing (for this test I've just been standing around doing nothing in-game, however the behaviour doesn't change the slightest). Actually found a logs tab in the Server Manager I'm currently using, here's what it said:

[01:15:26] CRASH DETECTION: Pending monitoring (10 Seconds)
[01:15:36] CRASH DETECTION: Start monitoring
[01:51:40] Error while executing RCON command for ListPlayers: Timeout while waiting for authentication response from server
[01:51:50] Error while executing RCON command for ListPlayers: Timeout while waiting for authentication response from server
[01:52:12] Error while executing RCON command for ListPlayers: Timeout while waiting for authentication response from server
[01:52:18] RCON connection error: Unable to connect to RCON server at 192.168.0.182:27020.
[01:52:18] RCON connection error: Unable to connect to RCON server at 192.168.0.182:27020.
[01:52:20] RCON connection error: Unable to connect to RCON server at 192.168.0.182:27020.
[01:52:28] RCON connection error: Unable to connect to RCON server at 192.168.0.182:27020.
[01:52:36] CRASH DETECTION: Process check exception: Process with an Id of 9060 is not running.
[01:52:36] CRASH DETECTION: Server process not found. Attempt 1 of 3.
[01:52:38] RCON connection error: Unable to connect to RCON server at 192.168.0.182:27020.
[01:52:48] RCON connection error: Unable to connect to RCON server at 192.168.0.182:27020.
[01:52:51] CRASH DETECTION: Process check exception: Process with an Id of 9060 is not running.
[01:52:51] CRASH DETECTION: Server process not found. Attempt 2 of 3.
[01:52:58] RCON connection error: Unable to connect to RCON server at 192.168.0.182:27020.
[01:53:06] CRASH DETECTION: Process check exception: Process with an Id of 9060 is not running.
[01:53:06] CRASH DETECTION: Server process not found. Attempt 3 of 3.
[01:53:06] CRASH DETECTION: Server is not running after 3 attempts. Attempting to restart the server.
[01:53:06] CRASH DETECTION: Monitoring stopped
[01:54:18] CRASH DETECTION: Pending monitoring (10 Seconds)
[01:54:28] CRASH DETECTION: Start monitoring

Server came right back up after the crash without me doing anything manually. No idea what those errors mean tho.

[𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲]

I have noticed a similar issue since the last few updates.

If you go to \ShooterGame\Saved\Crashes\ you should have folders for the crashes. All of mine say:
Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION 0x00007ff600790050

My server PC has had 0 issues hosting ASE servers without issues and i can host Satisfactory server and many Minecraft servers without issues as well.

This is strictly an Ark Ascended issue. Super frustrating on clusters because it can delete your data if you transfer then the server you transfer to crashes. Items in a cluster are moved to your player profile, then merged into the map data which doesnt get saved when it crashes.

Also, it was never bad for me on launch; only relatively recently. Might be some of the server crash fixes WC put in place since Aberration launched.

No idea how to fix. Sometimes it's fine, other times it'l just crash randomly.

[Vig]

try booting the server without booting it from the manager

[Vig]

I amusing a manager for 1 of my servers, as aa test . It tends to be laggy and can be unstable. I have 5 other maps running manually. These 5 do not suffer. All these Servers are installed on my dedicated server

[Kiba]

Originally posted by Vig:

try booting the server without booting it from the manager

How would I do that? If I try launching it from ''ArkAscendedServer.exe'' it just gets stuck in a booting 'loop' or rather doesn't even start at all.
Or do I need to start it from somewhere else?
Here's the path from where I start it:
C:\Users\Username\Desktop\Ark Server Manager\Servername\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64

[ᑕᖇOᗯᗷᗩᖇƧƬЯӨПG]

:hardware:
when you say your monitoring your ram how much is free
for example i have 8gb in use 46gb on standby and 10gb free
i have a 11gb gpu and almost cap my ram
your motherboard/cpu/PSU seem just fine
which windows version
:software:
rcon shouldnt be enabled by default
maybe its the server manager you are using try the command line
ArkAscendedServer.exe" mods + " Aberration_WP?SessionName="xxxxxx"?Port=7781?AltSaveDirectoryName=Aberration?MaxPlayers=70?ServerAutoForceRespawnWildDinosInterval=86400?AllowCrateSpawnsOnTopOfStructures=True -crossplay -PublicIPForEpic -nosteamclient -servergamelog -nosound -culture=en -servergamelogincludetribelogs -forcerespawndinos -WinLiveMaxPlayers=70 -clusterid="xxxxxx" -NoTransferFromFiltering -DoCustomCosmeticValidation -log -PrintCosmeticCRC -ClusterDirOverride="xxxxx"

[Zodiac]

Hey, might not be your setup. Our "The Center" server has been crashing out and stuck in a reboot loop with "Unhandled Access" errors since the last update Wildcard pushed.

[JamieVWCC]

Originally posted by Zodiac:

Hey, might not be your setup. Our "The Center" server has been crashing out and stuck in a reboot loop with "Unhandled Access" errors since the last update Wildcard pushed.

I seem to be having the exact same issue with my server on the centre

[𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲]

My servers seem way worse since the 10/2 update.

Island crashed 6 times overnight; roughly every 2 hours when no one was on the cluster.

Update: Seems like the servers will just randomly crash for no reason even with folks playing. Getting worse and worse.

Curseforge is also down so now no one can join anyways. Phenominal.

[Zodiac]

Originally posted by JamieVWCC:

Originally posted by Zodiac:

Hey, might not be your setup. Our "The Center" server has been crashing out and stuck in a reboot loop with "Unhandled Access" errors since the last update Wildcard pushed.

I seem to be having the exact same issue with my server on the centre

Nitrado support got back to me this morning, it is in fact an issue with the latest update Wildcard pushed, with the addition of Curseforge SQL currently having issues if you have premium mods not only will your server bomb out you couldn't connect to it anyway

[Cask7342]

Originally posted by Kiba:

Originally posted by Vig:

try booting the server without booting it from the manager

How would I do that? If I try launching it from ''ArkAscendedServer.exe'' it just gets stuck in a booting 'loop' or rather doesn't even start at all.
Or do I need to start it from somewhere else?
Here's the path from where I start it:
C:\Users\Username\Desktop\Ark Server Manager\Servername\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64

This how I start my 4 servers on the same PC I play on. I have very little issues with 32 gigs of RAM.

start ArkAscendedServer.exe TheCenter_WP?listen?SessionName=****?ServerPassword=**** -Port=7777?QueryPort=27018? -Mods=935813,934129,934231,932040,930115,928506,930265,934238,933731,931047,928988,930360,930237,930128,933301,924900,949521,1060836,933638,931874,935528,929902,929693,961980,946645,935399? -TCP=27020?ServerAdminPassword=**** -NoBattlEye
exit