Beta Dedicated Server Multiple Instances problem

[Toumal]

Hi,

 

I've been running a dedicated server for quite some time now, using the beta server executable. Worked fine.

 

Now a friend asked for a second instance with a different mission and I thought I'd oblige. I was using the -w switch to create a second instance, which did create the corresponding directory in the save game folder. However when launching the server I ran into troubles:

 

1) I don't launch DCS.exe since that never worked for me, I usually run DCS-updater.exe and let it spawn DCS after updating. This would be perfect but unfortunately I have no way to skip all the unneeded "Do you really want to update" dialogs, but that's another issue.

DCS-updater.exe does not know what to do with the -w parameter.

 

2) Launching DCS.exe with -w creates the directory, but the server does not start. I tried using -server and -norender but the log then talks about not being able to load the render backend dx11backend.dll...

 

Does anyone have any ideas of what else I could try?

[Sandman1330]

On 7/16/2020 at 8:45 AM, Toumal said:

Hi,

 

I've been running a dedicated server for quite some time now, using the beta server executable. Worked fine.

 

Now a friend asked for a second instance with a different mission and I thought I'd oblige. I was using the -w switch to create a second instance, which did create the corresponding directory in the save game folder. However when launching the server I ran into troubles:

 

1) I don't launch DCS.exe since that never worked for me, I usually run DCS-updater.exe and let it spawn DCS after updating. This would be perfect but unfortunately I have no way to skip all the unneeded "Do you really want to update" dialogs, but that's another issue.

DCS-updater.exe does not know what to do with the -w parameter.

 

2) Launching DCS.exe with -w creates the directory, but the server does not start. I tried using -server and -norender but the log then talks about not being able to load the render backend dx11backend.dll...

 

Does anyone have any ideas of what else I could try?

Bump, I have the same issue...

 

Edit - solved. I copied the contents of the first server’s saved games into the new one, then edited serversettings.lua to change the port, and created autoexec.cfg to set the new control port.

 

It still didn’t work, until I added —server —norender to the second servers DCS.exe

 

I didn’t think it would need this as it doesn’t when using DCS_updater.exe but apparently it does.

Edited December 24, 2020 by Sandman1330