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Hey all -

I need some help, I am not trying to install or setup my own server, I am trying to get a hosted server to be usable?

Let me attempt to explain, I use a game hosting service [pretty common] to a couple of other games and it has worked out. I thought that since I have some friends and twitch supporters that enjoy the game that I would go ahead and order a new game through the same host that I have been using.

At first with a small handful of mods, there was some pretty bad stuttering and lag. [nan-bots was the main culprit] To make sure, I pulled all the mods so that I would only have an vanilla server.

There a couple days of testing, there is still some walking stutters and some lag. The host had told me that it is running in an I7 with plenty of resources and are still working with me to figure out what might be the problem.

See: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=51319

Thanks for the link...

I did use the information via F4.
The FPS/UPS are 60.0/60.0
buffer : 4/0/1
jump: 0

There are no mods installed, the hosting service says that this is a headless, i7 with 1gb ram

When I am just walking, running along.. I will stutter step.
Occasionally I will see [player name] is being dropped with a progress bar.. , it never finishes , no players have been dropped.

If the server only has 1GB ram that's probably your issue.

Okay,
That is covered ...

I would think it might be my connection, but there are 3 others.. and they are also seeing lag spike. Any suggestions? I was refereed to here from the Factorio Discord.

From personal experience lag spikes or "player is being dropped" that never finishes is mostly caused by my own shitty connection. You mention twitch...are you sure your own connection (or that of whoever is "being dropped") isn't overtaxed? Also are you talking about a brand new tiny factory, or are you running a large base?

My streaming setup is a 2 pc setup, so the streaming is offset on a while other PC , so my gaming experience is only impacted by me? [not being good in engineering games,.. ]

I do have a complicated connection to the Internet [Microwave direction Light of Sight Wireless] ' however I have streamed games like Fallout4, Scum, Subnatica and such with less then 105 dropped frames in a 8 hr session and that is pushing 1920x1080 60fps.

The other two peeps on the server, were saying the same lag spike and the dropping dialog. We have been moved to another server at another location and an early report shows that this is much better.

The original hosting box was in New York [which is where the ARK, PixArx, Hellion] servers are and there were no issues.

I appreciate you taking your time and helping out.

It's possible that you might have run into viewtopic.php?f=7&t=62814.