PLAY W/ DEDICATED SERVER,

[Chrono Atog]

DON'T DO SOLO/LOCAL PERIOD also play fullscreen!

GTX 1070 + RX1700X (server uses like 5% of my cpu, it only hogs a bit of the ram you should be fine with 8 GB's but w/ 4 GB's more of RAM you should be Guchi.

http://imgur.com/a/HQXoO

My standard 27-34 FPS jumped up to 44-50 FPS

How to make a clientless server

GOTO X DRIVE where it's installed.

"X:\SteamM2Games\steamapps\common\Dark and Light\DNL\Binaries\Win64\DNLServer.exe"

Make a TXT with a name like serverstart.txt file input this change where it says EDIT, you can make serverpassword empty for no password.

start "" /NORMAL "EDIT:\Steam\steamapps\common\Dark and Light\DNL\Binaries\Win64\DNLServer.exe" "/Game/DNL/Maps/CapeOfSacredPath/DNL_ALL?QueryPort=27015?SessionName=EDIT?MaxPlayers=127?listen?ServerPassword=EDIT?ServerAdminPassword=EDIT?DifficultyOffset=1.000000?NewMaxStructuresInRange=6000.000000?GlobalVoiceChat=false?ProximityChat=false?NoTributeDownloads=false?AllowThirdPersonPlayer=false?AlwaysNotifyPlayerLeft=false?DontAlwaysNotifyPlayerJoined=false?ServerHardcore=false?ServerPVE=false?ServerCrosshair=true?ServerForceNoHUD=false?ShowMapPlayerLocation=false?EnablePvPGamma=false?DisableStructureDecayPvE=false?AllowFlyerCarryPvE=true" -nosteamclient -game -server -log

SAVE THE FILE AS SERVERSTART.BAT

boom you have the server up wait 3-4 minutes for the server to boot up.

DO NOT JOIN BY ANYTHING OTHER THEN LAN! non-registered will say it won't connect.

EDIT 1

RUN BAT AS ADMIN

EDIT 2

MAKE SURE THE PASSWORD IS SECURE try with numbers+letters. So Bork5643 or something.

EDIT 3

X:\Steam\steamapps\common\Dark and Light\DNL\Saved\Config\WindowsServer

Under Server settings add what you want here.

[ServerSettings]
DifficultyOffset=1.000000
NewMaxStructuresInRange=6000.000000
DayCycleSpeedScale=1.000000
DayTimeSpeedScale=1.000000
NightTimeSpeedScale=1.000000
DinoDamageMultiplier=1.000000
PlayerDamageMultiplier=1.000000
StructureDamageMultiplier=1.000000
PlayerResistanceMultiplier=1.000000
DinoResistanceMultiplier=1.000000
StructureResistanceMultiplier=1.000000
XPMultiplier=1.000000
TamingSpeedMultiplier=1.000000
HarvestAmountMultiplier=1.000000
PlayerCharacterWaterDrainMultiplier=1.000000
PlayerCharacterFoodDrainMultiplier=1.000000
DinoCharacterFoodDrainMultiplier=1.000000
PlayerCharacterStaminaDrainMultiplier=1.000000
DinoCharacterStaminaDrainMultiplier=1.000000
PlayerCharacterHealthRecoveryMultiplier=1.000000
DinoCharacterHealthRecoveryMultiplier=1.000000
DinoCountMultiplier=1.000000
HarvestHealthMultiplier=1.000000
PvEStructureDecayPeriodMultiplier=1.000000
ResourcesRespawnPeriodMultiplier=1.000000
ShowFloatingDamageText=1.0
ServerCrosshair=true

EDIT 4

PLEASE ADD IF THIS DOESN'T EXIST INTO YOUR

\steamapps\common\Dark and Light\DNL\Binaries\Win64\

a text file called steam_appid

and add the following numbers and save

529180

[Gorebane44]

how do you connect to it once you do this? also thanks for the tips

[Chrono Atog]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gorebane44:

how do you connect to it once you do this? also thanks for the tips

Connect by LAN, anyone in your house has to connect by LAN or they will get connection failure. You do not need internet for this to work as again you can always see your server locally.

[Gorebane44]

cool thanks. It's funny I guess its just like ark where the game performs much better when you host your server and play on the same machine instead of just hitting singleplayer ^_^. Guess its a cpu threading issue just like in ark with the dino ai and such where the hosting server lets you split it all up.

[Chrono Atog]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gorebane44:

cool thanks. It's funny I guess its just like ark where the game performs much better when you host your server and play on the same machine instead of just hitting singleplayer ^_^. Guess its a cpu threading issue just like in ark with the dino ai and such where the hosting server lets you split it all up.

Ding ding ding, the dedicated server program is decently made, how it hosts locally is horribly made.

Usually dedicated servers improve performance with 99.9999% of games, but when it comes to open world games with massive amount of data it has to handle it's night and day.

The only downside is more RAM is used or CPU usage depending on the game.

[Gorebane44]

luckily I got 32gb ram so thats never an issue. On ark I run 3 dedicated servers and play all on the smae machine. Makes it easier playing the different maps =).

[Chrono Atog]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gorebane44:

luckily I got 32gb ram so thats never an issue. On ark I run 3 dedicated servers and play all on the smae machine. Makes it easier playing the different maps =).

Yeah it's not major but some games are horrible with ram w/dedi's *COUGH COUGH 7 DAY TO DIE 0.5GB PER ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PLAYER COUGH COUGH*

Game + Dedicated server with 8 people seems to use 7.1GB's~ of RAM.

[Gorebane44]

I am getting a cannot run this app on your pc error. I have my steam installed on a seperate drive from my windows its labeled as a F drive. Do I need to do something different for this part?

start "" /NORMAL "EDIT:\SteamM2Games\steamapps\common\Dark and Light\DNL\Binaries\Win64\DNLServer.exe"

***never mind I just noticed the edit part lol im an idiot ^_^

**hmm still giving error after changing EDIT to F

[Chrono Atog]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gorebane44:

I am getting a cannot run this app on your pc error. I have my steam installed on a seperate drive from my windows its labeled as a F drive. Do I need to do something different for this part?

start "" /NORMAL "EDIT:\SteamM2Games\steamapps\common\Dark and Light\DNL\Binaries\Win64\DNLServer.exe"

***never mind I just noticed the edit part lol im an idiot ^_^

**hmm still giving error after changing EDIT to F

there is more EDITS

?ServerPassword=EDIT
?ServerAdminPassword=EDIT?
?ServerPVE=true/false(EDIT)

[Gorebane44]

this is what I have but it wont let me run the exe
start "" /NORMAL "F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Dark and Light\DNL\Binaries\Win64\DNLServer.exe" "/Game/DNL/Maps/CapeOfSacredPath/DNL_ALL?QueryPort=27015?SessionName=PVE Darkvale 1x?MaxPlayers=10?listen?ServerPassword=?ServerAdminPassword=?DifficultyOffset=1.000000?NewMaxStructuresInRange=6000.000000?GlobalVoiceChat=false?ProximityChat=false?NoTributeDownloads=false?AllowThirdPersonPlayer=True?AlwaysNotifyPlayerLeft=True?DontAlwaysNotifyPlayerJoined=false?ServerHardcore=false?ServerPVE=true?ServerCrosshair=true?ServerForceNoHUD=false?ShowMapPlayerLocation=true?EnablePvPGamma=false?DisableStructureDecayPvE=false?AllowFlyerCarryPvE=true" -nosteamclient -game -server -log

[Chrono Atog]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gorebane44:

this is what I have but it wont let me run the exe
start "" /NORMAL "F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Dark and Light\DNL\Binaries\Win64\DNLServer.exe" "/Game/DNL/Maps/CapeOfSacredPath/DNL_ALL?QueryPort=27015?SessionName=PVE Darkvale 1x?MaxPlayers=10?listen?ServerPassword=?ServerAdminPassword=DukCow44?DifficultyOffset=1.000000?NewMaxStructuresInRange=6000.000000?GlobalVoiceChat=false?ProximityChat=false?NoTributeDownloads=false?AllowThirdPersonPlayer=True?AlwaysNotifyPlayerLeft=True?DontAlwaysNotifyPlayerJoined=false?ServerHardcore=false?ServerPVE=true?ServerCrosshair=true?ServerForceNoHUD=false?ShowMapPlayerLocation=true?EnablePvPGamma=false?DisableStructureDecayPvE=false?AllowFlyerCarryPvE=true" -nosteamclient -game -server -log

MAKE IT A BAT file

you don't run the .exe, you run the BAT and the BAT has to be in the same folder

[Gorebane44]

what do I rename the file to for that? Currently its serverstart.exe

[Gorebane44]

also thank you so much for helping me with this I really appreciate it =).

[Chrono Atog]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gorebane44:

what do I rename the file to for that? Currently its serverstart.exe

http://imgur.com/a/EQupM

Rename the textfile you made into or save to make a backup if you try to change the server. (do the latter)

Serverstart.bat

[Gorebane44]

ah ok cool.

[Gorebane44]

woot it worked! thanks so much!