Hi there,
I'm trying to host a dedicated multiplayer server for a few friends through Steam, after much frustration and a couple guides later it seems to be working well. However we struggle a lot with desync. Especially with vehicles travelling at anything faster than Sunday Driver speeds (30mph).
I must say though in general it is surprisingly good. However desync does crop up from time to time and we get the usual black walls (chunks not loading), teleporting zombies, spawning in among zombies, players disappearing, items duplicating etc. related to that.
We are running the latest version with 3 people, server is allocated 10gb RAM and its running on a pretty high end gaming PC / connection. The server is hosted through ZeroTier, a Hamachi like service and the clients are connecting with 200-400 ping routinely. The pings are fairly stable and seldom spike.
Now I know might sound absurd to some of you who think 100 ping is unacceptable, but unfortunately I cannot move my friends to another country to solve this problem. The alternative is just to stop playing with them and I'd like to avoid that..... hence this post railing against the laws of nature.
There are no obvious console errors and I cannot see any difference when modding or running the server vanilla. I have been tinkering with a couple settings to try and alleviate the desync, so I thought I might share those here and ask for more ideas:
- UPnP is off / default ports are open
- No antivirus interference
- Ping limit (0)
- Ping Frequency (2)
- Physics Delay (1000)
- Speed limit (30)
- Save world every minutes (0)
- VOIP (off)
- Player save on damage (on)
- Time before corpse removal (108)
Unfortunately I don't know what these settings actually change (their descriptions are not great) so I have been just trial and erroring. I wonder if anyone can recommend better values or perhaps other fields to change or better information on what these fields change.
Maybe there isn't anything I can do and that's fine, but I thought worth the effort to ask.
Thanks in advance.
