Trinacria

Riojax, you genius, this did it! Thank you!:thumbup:

I have done this. Does not work for me. What hypervisor are you using for you VM? Also what OS does your VM run on? To also add, (I think) some of the info in that link you provided has changed since then with the updates.

I am running this server on a VM on a ESXi host. The normal GUI will not load on it no matter what is done. This no render method is the only way to get it to run on it.

If you have it, it will be in your "C:\Users\<username>\Saved Games\DCS\Config" folder. If it does not show up there, you need to create it as explained on page 1 of this thread. If you use the -w switch on your exe startup command, you will look for the directory ...\Saved Games\<whatever your instance name is>\Config\.

Does anyone have an answer on how you get the dedicated server software to automatically start the mission list when the exe starts? I am not talking about the mission being paused when it starts, I'm talking about the step before that to where you don't have to manually start the mission list every single time when you run the exe. Where I'm getting at with this, I have my virtual server I host on a daily reboot schedule. I am able to get it where the "DCS.exe --server --norender etc..." starts up on boot, but it won't autostart the mission list nor is there an option for it. I do have "resume on load" enabled, and that works when I manually start the mission list, the missions start unpaused. However I do not want to manually start the mission list. I really hope someone understands my question as I already had a bunch of confused people on this thread and other discussions try to understand what I'm saying. I can only assume that either this feature isn't implemented yet, or that it works already with everyone else except me. I can't seem to find any example on the internet to go off of for this. Thank you in advanced for the help.

So I'm a bit confused on your question... Are you asking did the mission auto start through the DCS gui? no If that's not what you meant, then let me explain my situation. Since I am running this on a VMS/VPS or what ever you want to call it, I can only run this in "no render mode". To also iterate, "no render mode" still didn't work for me before this dedicated server update because some high end graphics were still some what required at the time. Basically running this new dedicated server release was my only option to get my VMS/VPS to host a DCS match. So running DCS without being a dedicated server is not an option for me and never was. If someone else is able to get these missions to autostart upon exe load, it might help to see a detailed example file structure and code structure to make sure i'm not missing anything, or if I have too much of something. Throw it in a zip and I can work off that to see where the issue lies.

You did not read what I said mate... I have that part down. I'm talking about the mission starting upon exe startup. When starting the exe, the mission doesn't autostart. I have to manually press start, and then the mission starts up fine unpaused. I need the mission to autostart upon exe load.

Hi, so I am attempting to run DCS-DS on a VMS off of my ESXi host. Bottom line, I got a DCS server working on it with this DS, so it works. Here is the thing though, I automate everything and I need it to be automated. So this means I need the server to start automatically on boot (which I already have that covered) and I need to have the mission start automatically when the server starts (which is where I'm running into my issues). So before anyone goes answering, I'm not talking about the pausing on load, because I already had someone confuse it. And yes I have my server set to "Resume On Load". I have a mission list setup in serverSettings.lua and it works. My only issue that I need working is for the missions to autostart upon server load. Everything else is working fine for me regarding this server, its great! This is my serverSettings.lua at the moment: