DrZention Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 (edited) I’m extremely confused (and frustrated) at this point with this issue. I’ve recently came back to ARK and I’m trying to host a dedicated server for some friends and I to play on my PC. Whenever I launch the dedicated server the first time, everything launches quickly and smoothly and people are able to connect and we can play. However if it’s got a save already that it is loading - so any startup after the very first one - it seemingly gets hung up and never fully comes up (despite the “Server has successfully started” and “full startup” messages). The server shows up for everyone in the Steam Server browser, but it shows up with no Map and players 0/0 and we’re unable to connect to it. It doesn’t show for me in LAN on the in game server browser either. I did notice that it takes a variable amount of time for it to show “Set New Years event location” message in my logs on subsequent restarts. It was nearly 15 minutes after the “Server is not set to official or running New Years Event argument” message this last attempted server startup. Why is it setting an event location for something I’ve not enabled anyway and why does it do that same thing nearly instantly on a fresh save but existing saves it takes 15 minutes? I know my dedicated server files and mods are up to date. I use ARK server manager to ensure those are updated. It shouldn’t even be a “big save” thing. This server and save file are from part of yesterday evening until this morning. We had 3 people on it and literally have 5 dodos and 2 pteradons tamed total and they are in Dino Storage soul traps with the only structure being a 3x5x2 room. And I’ve seen the issue with another maps server that I just ran, let launch, and immediately shut down, and had this happen on the second launch. We’re trying to play on Fjordur. We’ve got 14 mods total, most of which are hugely popular ones or super minor mods that I can't fathom how they'd break things like this. ColStax v2 Ark Omega Zytharian Critters Alpha Everything Super Structures Dino Storage v2 Awesome Teleporters Awesome Spyglass Mindwipe My Dino Simple Spawners Creature Finder Deluxe Best Eggs Better Map Upgrade My Dino My PC isn’t bad either. I’ve got an i9-9900k, 64GB of DDR4 RAM, and it’s stored on a 2TB M.2 drive. It’s just frustrating because we can’t really play or make progress if after the server restarts once we effectively have to start over and lose all progress like this is a NES game. Edit: Here's the literal server terminal output from the latest attempt to start where I'm currently seeing this issue and the server has yet to appear. Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 346110 [2022.12.21-15.22.42:122][ 0]LogMemory: Platform Memory Stats for WindowsServer [2022.12.21-15.22.42:122][ 0]LogMemory: Process Physical Memory: 72.00 MB used, 82.57 MB peak [2022.12.21-15.22.42:122][ 0]LogMemory: Process Virtual Memory: 57.75 MB used, 66.46 MB peak [2022.12.21-15.22.42:122][ 0]LogMemory: Physical Memory: 26477.90 MB used, 65379.04 MB total [2022.12.21-15.22.42:122][ 0]LogMemory: Virtual Memory: 4495.31 MB used, 134217728.00 MB total [2022.12.21-15.22.43:239][ 0]New Save Format enabled [2022.12.21-15.22.43:239][ 0]ARK Version: 355.3 [2022.12.21-15.22.43:239][ 0]PID: 87460 [2022.12.21-15.26.22:003][ 0]Primal Game Data Took 214.62 seconds [2022.12.21-15.27.59:303][ 0]SteamSocketsOpenSource: gethostname failed () [2022.12.21-15.27.59:303][ 0]gethostbyname failed () [2022.12.21-15.29.49:905][ 0]-------------------- [2022.12.21-15.29.49:905][ 0]CSV formatting info from loaded file ../../../ShooterGame/Saved/Fjordur_Save/Fjordur.ark, 1597 total entries [2022.12.21-15.29.49:905][ 0]-------------------- [2022.12.21-15.29.49:910][ 0] Class,Count,HeaderBytes,DataBytes,TotalBytes BossArenaManager_Vanaheim_C,1,84,12,96 BossArenaManager_Vanaheim_Back_C,1,84,12,96 BossArenaManager_Jotunheim_C,1,84,12,96 BossArenaManager_Jotunheim_Back_C,1,84,12,96 BossArenaManager_Asgard_C,1,84,12,96 BossArenaManager_AsgardBack_C,1,84,12,96 TestGameMode_C,1,84,322,406 ShooterGameState,2,120,376,496 ColonyStacks_CCALoader_C,1,84,133,217 ArkOmega_CCA_C,1,84,1141,1225 ZC_CCA_C,1,84,37,121 AlphaEverything_CCA_C,1,84,108,192 DinoStorage2CCA_C,1,84,175172,175256 RM_CCA_Save_C,1,84,545,629 InstancedFoliageActor,197,16548,513540,530088 MatineeActor,2,168,186,354 TributeTerminal_Blue_C,1,84,182,266 PrimalInventoryBP_TributeTerminal_Blue_C,1,68,177,245 PrimalItemStructure_TekReplicator_C,22,1320,6700,8020 PrimalItemStructure_CryoFridge_C,12,720,3480,4200 PrimalItem_WeaponEmptyCryopod_C,12,720,3816,4536 PrimalItem_BossTribute_FenrirBoss_Easy_C,6,360,1440,1800 PrimalItem_BossTribute_FenrirBoss_Medium_C,6,360,1440,1800 PrimalItem_BossTribute[2022.12.21-15.29.49:910][ 0]-------------------- [2022.12.21-15.29.49:910][ 0]END CSV formatting info from loaded file ../../../ShooterGame/Saved/Fjordur_Save/Fjordur.ark, 1597 total entries [2022.12.21-15.29.49:911][ 0]-------------------- [2022.12.21-15.29.51:020][ 0]Server: "XNK_Fjordur" has successfully started! [2022.12.21-15.29.51:551][ 0]ADayCycleManager Fjordur_DayCycle_C_0, [2022.12.21-15.30.33:581][ 0]Commandline: Fjordur?listen?SessionName=XNK_Fjordur?AltSaveDirectoryName=Fjordur_Save?Port=7777?QueryPort=27015?MaxPlayers=50?AllowCrateSpawnsOnTopOfStructures=true?AllowAnyoneBabyImprintCuddle=true?MaxPersonalTamedDinos=1000?ShowFloatingDamageText=true?OverrideOfficialDifficulty=15?AllowFlyingStaminaRecovery=true?PreventSpawnAnimations=true?ServerCrosshair=true -allcores -automanagemods -ForceAllowCaveFlyers -NoTransferFromFiltering -clusterid=XeonikCluster -exclusivejoin -logsaveload -NoBattlEye [2022.12.21-15.30.33:581][ 0]Full Startup: 474.81 seconds (BP compile: 0.00 seconds) [2022.12.21-15.30.33:583][ 0]Number of cores 8 [2022.12.21-15.30.34:275][ 1]Server attempting to run new years event [2022.12.21-15.30.34:275][ 1]Sever Is not set to official or running NewYearEvent argument [2022.12.21-15.44.16:489][ 22]Set New Years event location: -109935 - 50367 - 5648 Edited December 21, 2022 by DrZention adding logs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larkfields Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 Check your file system for corruption, and run a virus scan. Once you've done that (assuming you're on windows) run sfc /scannow in an adminstrator CMD prompt. That might require another step if it finds problems that it can't fix. If you can upload your save file somewhere, I'll see if it starts up for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrZention Posted December 21, 2022 Author Share Posted December 21, 2022 Ran virus scans - no viruses or malware found on PC. Running the other now but I wanted to give you the save file while it does its thing. But I'm doubtful this should have any corruption, just deleting the save folder (or changing it to another one) will let it launch within a few minutes just fine the first time 100% of the time, and I've verified the install with Ark Server Manager a couple different times now and barring some other steam games (including ARK itself), it is the only thing on this new drive. https://www.mediafire.com/file/c5m22o84rj9p7cl/Fjordur.zip/file ActiveMods=2388946017,2447186973,1754846792,2205699189,1999447172,1609138312,889745138,1404697612,2128782723,1295978823,1591643730,1931415003,2863707757,1961542614 That is the mod ids and load order from GameUserSettings file. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larkfields Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 It loads ok without mods. I can only suggest that you try removing half the mods to see if it loads. And keep removing or replacing half until you can get it down to the problematic mod 😞 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrZention Posted December 21, 2022 Author Share Posted December 21, 2022 Thanks, I appreciate your help. I actually seem to have got it working by adding in -forcerespawndinos to my command line arguments just now! I guess with all the variants or something in Omega it had a ton of dinos and was taking ages trying to load or something. Not sure exactly, I just know that seems to have solved it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boberg89 Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 Holy mother of everything. Thank you my dude! Had 0/0 and wiped 3 or 4 Omega servers just this weekend. force respawn finally fixed it today ❤️ ❤️ <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAEZ Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 On 12/21/2022 at 7:18 PM, DrZention said: Thanks, I appreciate your help. I actually seem to have got it working by adding in -forcerespawndinos to my command line arguments just now! I guess with all the variants or something in Omega it had a ton of dinos and was taking ages trying to load or something. Not sure exactly, I just know that seems to have solved it. im having the same problem as you. adding in -forcerespawndinos to my command line arguments does not work for me what do i do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larkfields Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 Are you running any mods? If you can upload the save file, I'll try loading it to see if I can spot any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAEZ Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Larkfields said: Are you running any mods? If you can upload the save file, I'll try loading it to see if I can spot any problems. Yes i am runing 3 Mods (1404697612/Awesome SpyGlass! 761535755/Ultra Stacks 895711211/Classic Flyers) Here is the Server's .ini hope u find my problem fell free to add my discord Kaez#1729 (i will reply alot faster there) Kaez Ark.ini Edited April 24, 2023 by KAEZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larkfields Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 I've asked a friend to message you on Discord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAEZ Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Larkfields said: I've asked a friend to message you on Discord. tysm ill be waiting on that:)) did u find any problems? Edited April 25, 2023 by KAEZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larkfields Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 I think we'll need to see the .ark file - it's unlikely that the ini file will show the problem. He's sent the discord request just now (18:28 on the 26th) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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