[?] UDP Socket Connection

[Rulin]

Can someone please explain me how many rules I have to set for this new feature?

Option for server hosts to use direct UDP socket connections rather than Steam P2P, for significantly increased server network performance and stability! To enable direct UDP sockets mode on your dedicated server (for slightly increased networking performance & more optimized bandwidth utilization and potentially better long-term stability), use commandline option "?bRawSockets" (on Windows or Linux) -- you'll need to manually open ports 7777 & 7778 if you do so in order for your server to accept connections.

I'm using Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard OS with Windows Firewall.

It is a bit confusing because there are many ways to "open" ports.
Should I open these ports only for shootergame.exe or for all connections?
In- and/or outbound?
UDP and/or TCP?
Private, public and/or domain?

Part of the reason why I'm asking, is because one of the last patches screwed up my firewall settings. Server was waiting for puplication indefinitely, so I had to open all ports manually in order to have him online.

UPDATE

created a UDP 7778 port rule for each in- and outbound. Already had one for 7777.
Looks like it worked.
Also added "?bRawSockets" in the "additional args" field from my unofficial server manager.

[Sen]

A little off-topic but will UDP be "ON" for all official servers by default? i'm really sick of all the lags and stalling that's increasingly happening over the last weeks.

[Wolfman-RIP]

The official servers are a joke right now. The rubber banding and freezing happens server wide every couple mins and lasts 20 too 30 seconds each time. Everyone on the server experiences the server stuttering for 20+seconds every 2 or 3 mins.

The single worst thing in this game right now is the servers. Once you get over 15 players on any official server we have constant hangs.

I do wonder if Wildcard is doing anything to fix this issue on official servers as we havent heard anything.

[Ruse]

Originally posted by Wolfman-RIP:

The official servers are a joke right now. The rubber banding and freezing happens server wide every couple mins and lasts 20 too 30 seconds each time. Everyone on the server experiences the server stuttering for 20+seconds every 2 or 3 mins.

The single worst thing in this game right now is the servers. Once you get over 15 players on any official server we have constant hangs.

I do wonder if Wildcard is doing anything to fix this issue on official servers as we havent heard anything.

You must be new. They're commented several times in the past they're working on it. They're still working on it. It's not something you snap your fingers and fix over night. Do you want to help fix the lag? Stop building so much on the server.

[Sen]

So...not playing the game like it's meant to be played is your solution to fixing the lag and the server performance so that servers perform in the way they are meant to? Thumbs up then i guess...

[Rulin]

pls, don't derail in off topic here

[Majistic]

Originally posted by Theresa Barkskin:

Originally posted by Wolfman-RIP:

The official servers are a joke right now. The rubber banding and freezing happens server wide every couple mins and lasts 20 too 30 seconds each time. Everyone on the server experiences the server stuttering for 20+seconds every 2 or 3 mins.

The single worst thing in this game right now is the servers. Once you get over 15 players on any official server we have constant hangs.

I do wonder if Wildcard is doing anything to fix this issue on official servers as we havent heard anything.

You must be new. They're commented several times in the past they're working on it. They're still working on it. It's not something you snap your fingers and fix over night. Do you want to help fix the lag? Stop building so much on the server.

Haha, do you work at Apple by any chance?

[BigDally]

So if I understand correctly, are we supposed to open 7777,7778, and 27015 with the UDP option, or does 7778 replace 27015?

[Majistic]

Originally posted by BigDally:

So if I understand correctly, are we supposed to open 7777,7778, and 27015 with the UDP option, or does 7778 replace 27015?

I'd still use 27015 because as far as I understand, this allow your server to appear in the server list for Steam, then they connect to your server on 7777 and/or 7778.

[Out2kill]

@Rulin Are you putting the "?bRawSockets" in your GameUSerSettings.ini file under [ServerSettings]?

[Jaybob32]

If you were to put this option in the ini is it like this: bRawSockets in the server settings area or like this:bRawSockets=true It seems to be a boolean argument. I see no other aurguments that don't have true or fasle.
can anyone help? On a side note. If it was not working how would I be able to tell?

[Rulin]

@ BigDailly, I have UDP port rules for both, 27015 and 7778

@ Out2kill, I put ?bRawSockets in the "additional args" field of my server manager (unofficial)
But I can check how this changed the ini...

There is no entry in the ini.
I cannot describe how to add the commandline without using a server manager. Sorry.
All I can say, that it has something to do with the shootergame.exe. Not with an ini setting.

The exe starts with several additional commandlines, such as maxplayers, rcon port etc. bRawSockets is now one of them.

But I'm not really sure about that. This can still be wrong...

[Out2kill]

Originally posted by Rulin:

@ BigDailly, I have UDP port rules for both, 27015 and 7778

@ Out2kill, I put ?bRawSockets in the "additional args" field of my server manager (unofficial)
But I can check how this changed the ini...

There is no entry in the ini.
I cannot describe how to add the commandline without using a server manager. Sorry.

Hmmm, I asked my server company to add this since I couldn't figure out where to put "?bRawSockets" and they said they took care of it. Checking the .ini file I don't see at "?bRawSockets" anywhere..where is this thing going?

[Jaybob32]

Ok. so I have bRawSockets=true under the serversettings section of my ini file. I was able to confirm that the server is indeed using UDP ports except for the RCON port which is TCP.
Hope this helps.

[Horrifying Hardons]

Originally posted by Out2kill:

Originally posted by Rulin:

@ BigDailly, I have UDP port rules for both, 27015 and 7778

@ Out2kill, I put ?bRawSockets in the "additional args" field of my server manager (unofficial)
But I can check how this changed the ini...

There is no entry in the ini.
I cannot describe how to add the commandline without using a server manager. Sorry.

Hmmm, I asked my server company to add this since I couldn't figure out where to put "?bRawSockets" and they said they took care of it. Checking the .ini file I don't see at "?bRawSockets" anywhere..where is this thing going?

Its not an ini setting, you are supposed to put it in the command line. As in, the .exe that runs the server has a command line option, you add it to this.

[Yoth]

Just forward/open incoming UDP 7777 and 7778 on your server and allow any outgoing UDP. Works fine. Had to manually delete client settings though... the client would just crash while loading.