How do I really optimize a dedicated server?

[DylanMadigan]

I'm starting a dedicated server that is semi-public, and I would like it to run as good as possible.

I have been playing around with automatic trash removal settings and other built in server setting a bit, but I would like to know from others with experience, what can I do to keep the server running well?

I'm looking for anything from optimal settings, to plugins, commandline arguments, mods, anything that will give my players and I the best experience.

I would like to hear any suggestions, as well as share any that I find in this one post.



Right now with a couple trucks on planets and a few ships in space, server simulation CPU is about 50%. It doesn't seem to change much if I add more vehicles. However if I crash a ship into a planet, it exceeds 150% for a couple minutes, then settles at like 95% while the ship is in parts and figuring out where it went wrong in life, then 80 once all the small bits get removed by trash removal. If I travel far enough away I would imagine it would stop calculating physics? Right now standing on a ship in orbit, it says 50%, and on the server Task Manager shows 15% usage by SpaceEngineersDedicated.exe.

The VM host has access to 8 cores of a Ryzen 7 7700x, 60GB of RAM, 8x SATA SSD RAID 10 array, and 1Gbps up and down for the network. This VM server (while nowhere near maxed) is used for multiple game servers, not just Space Engineers.

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, I don't have much experience with the SE Dedic but I play with my son and best friends sometimes and we have a better Perfo in asteroid only world, so that may be a world for you to try, lets say use the Sandbox world named "Red ship V2" and paste only one Moon or one Planet at a time to see how it goes and use the best setup.

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Keep in mind the default mode is made to have a better MP perfo and we can create the world Local and transfer to the Dedic saves folder when done.

We have 2 game modes palying Local :

1 - Default (safe mode) = Block limit enabled for better MP Perfo where server admins can change that limit, to be fair in PVP and must play with friends in our Faction to have more PCU available to build more than the needed ships and station for one planet only.

2 - Experimental = Unlocks all world settings + can add Mods + can enable Scripts + can disable the option named "Block limit" + also adds "Share inertia tensor" and unlocks "Impulse axis" on pistons to create more stable Multigrid concepts.

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Create the world local Default mode, load to test if all good and save/exit to transfer to the Dedic Saves folder, just don't foget to enable "Use saved world" from the Dedic console.

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That said, I recommend to ask the experienced server admins helping new admins every days in the "help-for-community-servers-se" channel on Keen Discord.

All can join the SE community from the Discord permalink added to this pinned :
https://steamcommunity.com/app/244850/discussions/0/4622335767039372629/

Once on the Keen Discord -> Go to the Role selection channel to choose PC role to unlock the proper community -> go to the "help-for-community-servers-se" channel to post your question.

[Dan2D3D]

Oh! We also never used/tried VM, I run the SE Dedic in my second PC having a second Steam account where I bought a second copy of SE and run it with the installed game so we use installation steps a) from the Official Guide :

https://www.spaceengineersgame.com/dedicated-servers/

[DylanMadigan]

Most servers you don't need to own a 2nd copy of the game, you can download and run a server anonymously with steamcmd.

Unfortunately, the guide does not give very mush as far as optimizing the server.

[Rex]

you need a powerfull machine and a torch server with scripts to maintain and clean up your world

[Oparator Stalker]

As a host, best run off a LAN....