Dedicated Server hosted on your own PC via Hyper-V and everything is fine :)

[Hitman006XP]

I'm running the game on a i7 3770k, 16gb ram and GTX 1070. I run my own dedicated server on a Virtual Machine running on Hyper-V with Windows 8. I've a 100mbit connection and i'm playing on my own server just fine. The bad performance on other servers out there are 100% caused by bad server performance. The netcode and engine itself is ok!

I had to run the Server on a VM cause i could not host and join from the same OS. But if the DS is on a VM it's fine. If you have a 2nd PC use that for the DS.

for those that are interested.

Here's a guide how to download the dedicated server files:
https://www.pcinvasion.com/setup-conan-exiles-dedicated-server
here another:
http://webmastertips.info/conan-exiles-dedicated-server-setup-for-windows/

and here is a guide to install Hyper-V: (use VirtualBox as alternative if you want)
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh846766(v=ws.11).aspx
and her ein german:
http://www.pcwelt.de/ratgeber/Hyper-V-in-Windows-8-und-10-nutzen-9759490.html

[David6768]

Yea the game is fine the 3 patches per day the devs are putting out are just there for fun.

[Capsup]

Do you actually know what causes the lag on all the other servers out there? Buildings. How many buildings is on your freshly created server? Not very many I'd guess, so you won't see the same lag as the rest of us who has had players on our servers for the last 3 days.

[Hitman006XP]

You seem to not understand what EA is for... EA is exactly for this... it's for releaseing something that is FAR FROM FINISHED... and if the Devs are pushing out patches every day you should be happy!

Playing on official servers is a waste of time right now... and cause of that i hosted my own one with only 10 slots... on my own hardware. There tha game runs absolutly smooth when i play it online together with friends.

Noone says that they don't need to patch anything... if this game would be finished it would not be on EA... so face it... it's EA! And for that this game is very very polished IF the server is right!

[Namidaka]

The game also runs just fine on a quantum computer.
Nevertheless , we had a server with an i7 920 and the server didn't use more than 20% of the cpu and we still had massive lag. We changed for a better server and we have no more lag. The problem is that you need an overkill cpu to run the server even though most of you cpu stay unused

[Hitman006XP]

Originally posted by Capsup:

Do you actually know what causes the lag on all the other servers out there? Buildings. How many buildings is on your freshly created server? Not very many I'd guess, so you won't see the same lag as the rest of us who has had players on our servers for the last 3 days.

I played ARK nearly from day 1 on^^ about 800h... so i know what a bad optimised server feels like... and ARK is even going some steps back right now... so for EA <- you understand this;)?... it's really ok IF the server is right.

[Pudsley]

Sorry to say OP but you are barking up the wrong tree this time. I'm a network engineer/techie of over 20 years, my rig is a water cooled monster, I7, 32GB ram, SLI 980ti's (not that they matter for the server). It hosts Ark servers and anything else we need it to for a very small group of friends (3-5).

I have a business fibre line installed, nothing exciting but it is a bulletproof 100mb line that I can monitor easily, it' performing well and only traffic is flowing through the server.

I monitor system performance, network performance, everything. With the Conan Exiles dedicated server running neither the system or the connection are even breaking a sweat.

It all worked like a dream until the three of us on the server worked all day yesterday on constructing a fort overlooking a river, it's a very large fort, lots of buildings, 4-5 fence foundations high on the cliff side, plenty of lights, fair few thralls.


The sheer number of objects has destroyed performance to the point whereby combat is next to impossible, mobs warping, invisible mobs crippling us.

We have no choice now but to wipe and build small (not very appealing) or test it each time a patch comes out (shame this latest one had no effect on this particular issue but I'm still hopeful they'll get to it.

Problem is, if it's this bad on a dedicated server that is overkill for the task with only three people on it, the game is likely to be far worse on servers with up to 70 player on, I can't imagine they'll be playable at all.

[Pudsley]

Just for reference sake so the devs and anyone else reading can get an idea of how many pieces are in the fort causing the problem I took a screenshot whilst using the admin ghost command.

There are a couple of three storey houses in other places on the map but nothing more.

https://s29.postimg.org/x6x41tbrb/cefort.jpg

[Hitman006XP]

ARK performance is also crap when there are very larga bases... i think this will always be a problem... that there is no limit... but they'll improve it like they did in ark.

[Pudsley]

You are right, large bases do affect the Ark server and any other server of course, but that is usually limited to issues when drawing it as you come into range/log in and then after that it's generally the clients that struggle.

All my friends are running high end rigs so the giant bases we've built in Ark many bigger than this fort aren't a problem.

As you say as well the Ark devs made great strides forward and likely so will Funcom, initially in Ark even small bases were a problem but recently it's running much better. Unfortunately though the problem is worse atm in Conan Exiles so a little more urgent. Ironically client side performance in Conan as far as we are concerned is far better than Ark and it looks better as well.

I'm not dissing Ark btw, we still love the game we just prefer Conan Exiles, I'm a big Robert E Howard fan and we all played AoC when it came out.