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Questions tagged [gameserver]

Game servers in a professional / commercial context. Absolutely no hobbyist questions.

Questions regarding game servers in a professional context only (e.g. by game companies or commercial "as a service" offerings).

This excludes any and all hobbyist questions (e.g. "I want to run a Minecraft server for my friends and me") which might be on topic at Game Development SE or Arqade. Arqade has many Minecraft server questions already that may cover what you are trying to do.

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What's the best server infrastructure for real-time games?

I'm developing a Real-Time game which should hold thousands of players in real-time. What would be the best server structure for this? My idea was using 2 server clusters - one for the Server End (all the computing side) and one for the Database…
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How can I maximize UDP Packet Size?

I am a gamer. I play UDP-based games. I want to increase the packet size. I know the UDP packet size is 1024 but i want to increase this packet size even more. I want to increase the performance I get on the UDP-based games. I'm new to this so…
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How do online games send UDP packets across the internet?

How do online multiplayer games which use UDP get the packets delivered between networks over the internet? From what I understand, clients would have to enable port forwarding on their routers in order for the packets to arrive at their computer.…
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How to test network / internet stability

Short explanation: One of our computers keeps disconnecting randomly in steam. We run an arcade with several identical computers in the same wired LAN. Most used games are from steam - or in steam. It is always the same system which get's…
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Possible causes for a single throttled UDP port

I am running a quake 3 engine based game server (Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory) on Ubuntu 16.04 and I've ran into a fairly puzzling issue. A week ago players started having issues when connecting to the server. Basically the server tries to send a…
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My dedicated server won't startup

I tried almost everything (I am with soyoustart) but it just won't boot, I got this message from the soyoustart team, they won't help me since it's software related. (dedicated server is used for game server and for my website) my root partition was…
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Troubleshooting packetloss

I currently own a couple of CS:GO gameservers which are hosted in Germany (hetzner). Recently (for the past weeks) some people have been getting weird lags (getting slightly teleported back, some of you may know it as rubberband lag). After doing…
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JVM memory in smartfoxserver

We have developed a multiplayer game using smartfoxserver as gameserver. I've setup a Ubuntu Instance 14.10 LTS in AWS with 2 Core 8GB Ram for only gameserver. But when I log into SFS admin. It says Max:1.8GB, Free:130mb. There are hardly 10 users…
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TCP Python Server

I have a question regarding connection reliability running a tcp server from an ec2 instance. We are currently serving mobile customers around the world from the Oregon region using a c3.4xl ec2 instance. Our product is a live game server written in…
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Is using a single VPS for hosting both websites and games ok?

I'm planning on getting a VPS to host websites that I develop for clients, but I also am thinking about leasing out some of its resources for hosting a game. Hopefully having a heftier server with more stuff on it will smoothen out the peak…
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Dos/ Flood Lag even though Port not Saturated

My GameServers had been under some UDP Floods due to which they generated outputs to the attacker which gave the GameServers some huge lags. Thanks to friends at ServerFault that upon different kind of testing, I was able to successfully block the…
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Accessing a Python server from Flash

I have a problem that has been breaking my head for over a week! I have a Flash game that works under Python. The game works fine from localhost, but doesn't work if someone tries to play it from another computer. You can access mysql, login into…
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Hosting a UDP Server

How do I host a UDP server for free or cheap? I can't afford to actually buy or rent a physical server. I have a prototype server application written in C#, and I can probably rewrite it in any platform or language. What's the easiest way to do…
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File permissions kicking my butt

I am trying to setup a Minecraft server, and I decided to run the server on a limited user, who only has access to the Minecraft server directory. I couldn't get the user to have permission, even though I set the owner to the user, and game it 777…
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What is more important with a gaming dedicated server the processor or RAM?

I am just wondering what is more important for a dedicated server that will be running game servers (such as Minecraft, CS, Battlefield, etc) the processor or RAM? or does it change depending on the game?
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