No experience w/ dedicated server, trying to set one up for Liberation

[av8orDave]

Not sure what the right place to post is, as this isn't really a multiplayer request, and not really a VR request, and not really a Liberation request, but anyway...

I have no experience setting up a dedicated server and have no idea where to start. There doesn't really seem to be a step-by-step guide anywhere. I'd like to try to run Liberation on a dedicated server locally on my computer for single player use, just to see if it helps with framerates (there seems to be anecdotal evidence that it does). 

Is anyone willing to explain a simple step-by-step procedure on how to get liberation going on a local dedicated server? The help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Dave

[Minsky]

1. Setting up the server.

2. Running Liberation.

[av8orDave]

Thank you for the help. It was easier than expected once I started going through the motions... nothing to it, really. There does seem to be quite a performance benefit. Makes you wonder... if a workaround for better performance is this easy, why haven't the developers worked it somehow into the stock game?

[ricktoberfest]

14 minutes ago, davidrbarnette said:

Thank you for the help. It was easier than expected once I started going through the motions... nothing to it, really. There does seem to be quite a performance benefit. Makes you wonder... if a workaround for better performance is this easy, why haven't the developers worked it somehow into the stock game?

I think the performance benefit comes from running the mission/server on separate cores from the game. 

[av8orDave]

1 hour ago, ricktoberfest said:

I think the performance benefit comes from running the mission/server on separate cores from the game. 

Understood... but I guess the question remains... if you can "rig" it to work this way in just a couple of very short steps, why hasn't it been addressed?

[IrenMilik]

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Edited May 17, 2023 by IrenMilik

[Maverick87Shaka]

To be honest if everything has to run on the same machine, I don't see a real benefits to have two separate installation, the full DCS game client, and the Dedicated server installation.

To me it's more reasonable using the same installation of the full client, and run one instance as server ( no-render etc. ), and the other instance running as client.