Connection issues

[BetterDeadThanZed]

I decided that I'd like to check out Epoch 1.0.6.2's new features so I rented a server from a GSP to check it out. I'm setting up a Lingor server. I've been having a problem where my ping could be normal at one moment, then shortly thereafter, it shoots up high, in the hundreds, sometimes in the thousands. I disabled all of my mods (only had single currency, safezones and infistar added. I have the same results with those enabled or disabled. When the ping is high, I can alt-tab to the desktop and do a tracert to the server IP and that is normal while my ping in-game is super high. This tells me that something about the server software is causing an issue. Since it's just a test server, I'm the only one on it so I can't get others to test, but I think they'd have the same problem. Sometimes the ping gets into the thousands and eventually the server crashes. Nothing in the log is showing any errors, just the standard "Server: Network message XXXX is pending" messages. The GSP moved me to another machine in the same data center and while the FPS improved, the problem persisted. I am thinking maybe the basic.cfg is the problem:

language="English";
adapter=-1;
3D_Performance=1500000;
Resolution_Bpp=32;

This is what they say is default for Epoch... not sure about that.

Any thoughts about what I can try next?

[Airwaves Man]

@BetterDeadThanZed

Hey, I had a similar problem long time ago. It sounds weird but it was a relation between infistar and Battleye. I took the normal epoch filters and used them with battleye and infistar + many custom scripts. As I had no plan about battleye filters I did no notice that every second the script.txt log grows about 500kbs that causes the massive pings and lags in my situation. Disable battleye as a test and check the size of your logs.

[BetterDeadThanZed]

I decided to reinstall the server and start from scratch but now that you say that, I did notice my scripts.log was almost 4MB in size. I didn't even connect that with the problem. I would have just disabled BE to see if that fixed the problem. Oh well, best to start fresh, but when I install Infistar, I'll use the Epoch filters instead of the ones that come with Infistar.

[Airwaves Man]

I think 4MB is still ok. I had log files from over 150MB after a very small uptime.

[salival]

BE logs being high will really only make the server take ages to start, I think your problem @BetterDeadThanZedis something not common at all.

Especially on a non modified server

[BetterDeadThanZed]

@A Man It appears you are correct. BE disabled = no ping problem. Now I have to go through the Epoch BE filters and get them sorted with Infistar.

[Airwaves Man]

Just add the needed exception for infistar and other scritps in your filters and everything should be ok. But you should not delete any filter.

[BetterDeadThanZed]

19 minutes ago, A Man said:

Just add the needed exception for infistar and other scritps in your filters and everything should be ok. But you should not delete any filter.

Yeah, I've added exceptions more times than I care to remember over the years. It's just such a long process.