Extremly Poor Network Performance

[Thunderbird One]

I have tried playing multiplayer with some friends and have been extremely disappointed and frustrated with the network performance.

Every few seconds I will rubber band, buildings will stutter when being constructed, items will be absent from belts and pop into existence. It is overall very frustrating and really kills my desire to play.



The server is being hosted in game and I am connecting directly through steam.
My network speed is 800/40
The hosts network speed is 50/18

The host machine is capable. 32GB ram, modern CPU
As is mine



What we have tried
Adjusting Network Quality Settings
Adjusting 'Send Gameplay Data' settings
Adjusting config files to manually raise bandwidth capacity
Changing session type Steam/Epic


All have done nothing

Is there anything that I am missing or can do?

[deadrop66]

ive been having similar issues but on a dedicated server, one thing i will point out is the host internet is really slow and that could be the cause, or it could be just the terrible multiplayer support this game has

[Kylnoffey]

Originally posted by deadrop66:

ive been having similar issues but on a dedicated server, one thing i will point out is the host internet is really slow and that could be the cause, or it could be just the terrible multiplayer support this game has

Pretty sure if your host has "very slow" Internet it will make parties lag or rollback in most games anyway how optimized their multiplayer is

[deadrop66]

Originally posted by Kylnoffey:

Originally posted by deadrop66:

ive been having similar issues but on a dedicated server, one thing i will point out is the host internet is really slow and that could be the cause, or it could be just the terrible multiplayer support this game has

Pretty sure if your host has "very slow" Internet it will make parties lag or rollback in most games anyway how optimized their multiplayer is

sorry i worded this incorrectly when i said the host internet is slow i was referring to the op's host, the internet for the dedicated server im using is a 1gb connection

[Kylnoffey]

Originally posted by deadrop66:

Originally posted by Kylnoffey:

Pretty sure if your host has "very slow" Internet it will make parties lag or rollback in most games anyway how optimized their multiplayer is

sorry i worded this incorrectly when i said the host internet is slow i was referring to the op's host, the internet for the dedicated server im using is a 1gb connection

Oh woops sorry I thought you talked about your experience

[PatvdLeer]

same here, the performance of the dedicated server is unplayable

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Originally posted by deadrop66:

ive been having similar issues but on a dedicated server, one thing i will point out is the host internet is really slow and that could be the cause, or it could be just the terrible multiplayer support this game has

But the developers are professionals someone else told me the other day while mocking and insulting me for helping another user with an issue; therefore, they should have fixed this issue long ago as the developers are "professionals".

[Thunderbird One]

Originally posted by deadrop66:

ive been having similar issues but on a dedicated server, one thing i will point out is the host internet is really slow and that could be the cause, or it could be just the terrible multiplayer support this game has

I don't even think that is that slow. The game should take nowhere near that bandwidth and I wouldn't consider it as a probable cause.

According to this article the game is limited to 64KB/s so 50Mb should be way overkill

https://xgamingserver.com/blog/how-to-fix-lag-in-satisfactory-server/

[deadrop66]

Originally posted by Thunderbird One:

Originally posted by deadrop66:

ive been having similar issues but on a dedicated server, one thing i will point out is the host internet is really slow and that could be the cause, or it could be just the terrible multiplayer support this game has

I don't even think that is that slow. The game should take nowhere near that bandwidth and I wouldn't consider it as a probable cause.

According to this article the game is limited to 64KB/s so 50Mb should be way overkill

https://xgamingserver.com/blog/how-to-fix-lag-in-satisfactory-server/

yes and you forget your host is likely talking to you in discord that takes internet or listening to music which is more internet or has family that also connects to that same internet it all adds up and having 50mbps now adays is quite slow

[Bedna]

I think speed is less relevant, latency though...

I did see someone else complaining about this, and I asked for them to provide ping information to gather some data for analysis, but they never came back with anything.

Maybe someone here can provide some data about latency while gaming.

Just ping cloudflares dns while gaming, open a cmd and type:

ping 1.1.1.1

And then shut down the game and do the same thing again and compare the response times.

You can obv ping the server ip itself too, but comparing to another server is probably more useful to find out if this is slowing down the server or the client while gaming.

The reason I am curious about this, is because that other user, said that he/she could not even browse the internet while in game...

[i2um1]

Originally posted by Bedna:

Maybe someone here can provide some data about latency while gaming.

First of all, the game has the decent net code. But the game requires you to have a good internet provider: I mean speed and latency + no lost net packages.

A connection between a server and clients consists of hops. It is not like an end-to-end connection, there're a lot of servers in the middle. Ofc, there're tools that can tracert the servers.

For instance, my friend and I have the best possible internet provider. My friend is in another country. A few days ago our connection used some server in Belgium that was not ok: 300 ms ping, 1 mbits upload/download, 10th hop lost 50% packages + my wifi created 2500 ms latency due to the server. Since there's no way to control hops the solution is to use a VPN. So, my friend just used a VPN in Norway to connect to me and it fixed the issue: 50 ms latency and no lost packages with the same setup.

Talking about speed: our "big" mess factory used 50 mb per hour.

[Bedna]

Originally posted by i2um1:

Since there's no way to control hops the solution is to use a VPN. So, my friend just used a VPN in Norway to connect to me and it fixed the issue: 50 ms latency and no lost packages with the same setup.

"There is no way to control the hops". Next sentence: explains exactly how to control the hops. xD

But yeah, this is also what I suspect is happening.
Good explanation too.

[Bluti]

Originally posted by Bedna:

I think speed is less relevant, latency though...

I did see someone else complaining about this, and I asked for them to provide ping information to gather some data for analysis, but they never came back with anything.

Maybe someone here can provide some data about latency while gaming.

Just ping cloudflares dns while gaming, open a cmd and type:

ping 1.1.1.1

And then shut down the game and do the same thing again and compare the response times.

You can obv ping the server ip itself too, but comparing to another server is probably more useful to find out if this is slowing down the server or the client while gaming.

The reason I am curious about this, is because that other user, said that he/she could not even browse the internet while in game...

This!

But instead of a ping I suggest a tracert.

[Viking2121]

Not sure, I use my main PC to host a dedicated server for friends with steamCMD, with a 5950x, 64gb of ram, I just throw it in the background, while I play with my copy from Epic, I only got a 10mbps upload, works pretty smoothly so far, and I also got a Valheim server up on the same machine lol.

Only thing I can think of is a unreliable connection, maybe fast but speed don't mean its good, Maybe ask him to downlaod the save from the server, you can do it if you are an admin, you host it with your connection on your computer and see if everything goes ok with you and your friend, that would tell ya if its on the the servers end or not, though you may not experience lag, your friend would if he connects to you.