serverSettings.lua not updating?

[Hootman9104]

It's probably been covered but I can't find it. I've seen and read several topics that make reference to the server settings, including the serverSettings.lua.

I have located the file in Saved Games\DCS\Config, however when I look at the file it is dated back to May 2024, and it does not appear to be updating when I change options in the Webgui. Shouldn't it?

Basically having an issue with the server settings not saving it seems. When I launch the GUI, many options seem to revert back to settings that I don't want, mainly pure client and allowing object exports (for TACVIEW. Yes, I know, but I have a great PC and don't have an issue having TACVIEW running, as I like to review that after my campaign missions and add them to my mission OBS recordings to go over the mission events).

So I THINK what I see, is the serverSettings.lua is not updating.

Any suggestions?

[Maverick87Shaka]

5 hours ago, Hootman9104 said:

It's probably been covered but I can't find it. I've seen and read several topics that make reference to the server settings, including the serverSettings.lua.

I have located the file in Saved Games\DCS\Config, however when I look at the file it is dated back to May 2024, and it does not appear to be updating when I change options in the Webgui. Shouldn't it?

Basically having an issue with the server settings not saving it seems. When I launch the GUI, many options seem to revert back to settings that I don't want, mainly pure client and allowing object exports (for TACVIEW. Yes, I know, but I have a great PC and don't have an issue having TACVIEW running, as I like to review that after my campaign missions and add them to my mission OBS recordings to go over the mission events).

So I THINK what I see, is the serverSettings.lua is not updating.

Any suggestions?

I normally don't use the webgui to manage settings, just times to time to check on the fly connected people and change running mission on our mission server.
But, I guess you can try to delete serverSettings.lua (backup renaming the file is better idea) and see if from the webgui it will be created automatically again according to the setting that you provide in the webgui. Can be a problem of file permission maybe   But it's just an idea, not tested.

[Hootman9104]

I did a search and found the actual file, it's now in Saved Games\DCS.server\Config, no longer in saved Games\DCS\Config.

They probably made that move when they switched everything around and basically did away with the open beta stuff, so it's writing to another directory which is why i was seeing that old one in the old directory.

I deleted it, and it recreated, so we'll se if it starts holding the settings now. Worst case scenario I'll just keep a copy of it and rename it back to default every time. It's just acting odd and I don't understand why it's overwriting/changing the settings without me telling it to do so. But it IS saving. 

I'll keep an eye on it and see if I can figure out what it's doing if it keeps it up. 

[Hootman9104]

Another thing, general question since you seem to use the lua file for server settings manually.

I use the server for Liberation campaigns, just for myself, and I find sometimes it just grinds to a halt and freezes up, usually around an hour or so. The last time it did it the other night was during a mission with heavy weather.

I have a good system (13900K, RTX 4080 Super, 64G ram, Z780 Gigabyte Aurous mobo) that I built in January, so basically it runs DCS very well, can't turn ALL the graphics up, but I have a lot turned up and limiting to 60FPS in NVCP to allow the extra graphics.

Doesn't really seem to be any rhyme or reason to the server freezes, of course I'm assuming it graphics and CPU load. 

Just wondering if there are any manual settings in the serverSettings.lua that I can dial in that would make the server more stable / not grind to a halt. Of course dialing down the graphics would PROBABLY do it, but really, I don't have them maxed out, and I don't see any reason for the server to grind to a halt after 1 hour.

I'm also running with E-Cores disabled, as I can do that in my mobo BIOS, it's part of the Boosting tweaks for the card. I found that in general on my system DCS seems to run better with the E-Cores disable. 

Might try it with them on a few times to see if that makes a difference. Maybe DCS needs those E-cores to run the background computations? I know about enough to be dangerous with computers, been building my own since the 90's, but some of the newer tech I'm not fully versed on. I do know that P is the performance cores and E the supposed "background" task cores. 

[Maverick87Shaka]

Based on my experience liberation tends to fill up the maps with units to create a lifelike battlefield, that is a great feature but tends to have lots of units (even if they are inactive) and, again, based on my experience, units/groups count in the .miz file has the most impact on server performance. In particular, ground moving unit.
But I have no recent experience, just tested a bit at some point and then we move over for custom made mission.

Regarding the e-core, if they are disable it should not be a problem since basically server is not yet a full "multithread" app (just the client with rendering is MT), so I believe it doesn't care if they are there or not. at least for the server, client may mess up something since maybe is expecting to find also the e-core based on your CPU model.
 

[Hootman9104]

It was about time anyway so I did a clean uninstall of both DCS and the server, reinstalled, and still hit and miss on saving the settings. Sometimes it does, sometimes it does not. Generally I wind up getting it to where it will save for that session to do Tacview exports and such, but basically I'm down to having to change both settings areas and save mutliple times, saving area (exports, etc.) will revert the other area (pure client info) for some reason, and remove the password and server name.

I'll live with it. It just seems it's not consistent in saving.