Atorius Posted January 3 Posted January 3 Hello all, I am new to starting my own server and I am still waiting for support to help me figure this out. But I figured since its the start of the weekend. I will not hear anything back until Monday. My issue is I am trying to start my own DCS server on it own PC. Basic specs for server PC is Intel 10850K, 64gb 3600 DDR4, GTX1080, 2tb NVME SSD. The SSD is brand new and I installed a fresh copy of Win11 pro on it. I have no other games or DCS software currently on the system. Every time I install DCS Server 2.9 from the installer from the main website and then launch the server, it creates two different folders (DCS.dcs_serverrelease and DCS.release_server) in the Saved Games folder. Is this right?? Everyone I have talked to thinks it is not and Support gave me the same impression, but has not given me a solution yet. I have uninstalled completely and reinstalled DCS server module four times now and get the same result each time. I am out of solutions at this point. Any ideas? I have attached a screen shot of my server's saved games folder. Any help will be most grateful. 1 PC Specs: AMD Ryzen 9900x, Artic Liquid Freezer III 360, Gigabyte X870E , 32GB Corsair 6400 CL32, MSI Ventus RTX 4080 (OC), Samsung 970 Evo+, Team Group 2tb NVME (Holds DCS only on it) Winwing Orion2 base/FA-18C stick, Winwing Orion1 base/F-16C stick, Winwing Orion2 base/FA-18C throttle, Winwing M.I.P., Winwing Take-off panel 2, MFG Crosswind v3 w/Damper, TEKCreations FA-18C Right side panel, Stream Deck, DYI Simshaker w/software, Next Level Boeing Military sim-pit, HyperX Cloud Alphas, Varjo Aero (VR headset) Modules: FA-18C, F-16C, F-14, F-15E, AH-64D, P-51D, FC3, Most of the maps and several campaigns.
Actium Posted January 4 Posted January 4 (edited) Likely, that's a bug in DCS' handling of the default value for the so-called writedir, which is set through the DCS_server.exe -w INSERT_NAME_HERE command line parameter. When not set, I presume, it defaults to both DCS.release_server and DCS.dcs_serverrelease. The latter, you can see in the dedicated server window title, so I'd assume that to be the main directory. While I'd expect QA to detect such basic issues, this has been around since at least DCS 2.9.9, which was when I first stumbled over it. To mitigate this bug, start the dedicated server with a valid -w parameter, e.g., by creating a shortcut (via right click > new > shortcut), editing it (right click > properties), and adding -w DCS.server1 to the very end of the target field (after the final quote). Edited January 4 by Actium 1
Wrecking Crew Posted January 10 Posted January 10 What Actium said. I had the same two folders. That parameter -w DCS.servername resolved it to the name I wanted for the folder -- that -w parameter must stay in the shortcut property. Visit the Hollo Pointe DCS World server -- an open server with a variety of COOP & H2H missions including Combined Arms. All released missions are available for free download, modification and public hosting, from my Wrecking Crew Projects site.
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