Toolguy

A new version of the Dedicated Server Launcher has been released: 1.4.6.

It technically does not bring any improvement, but if you are the unfortunate owner of a 10th or 11th generation Intel processor, that may help with not having your server to crash on startup when initializing Open SSL.

1.4.6 (10 june 2021)

I wish I could answer you positively, but I’ve no idea.
Does it always stop at the exact same location?
Have you tried to enable “validate”?

You were not supposed to copy the existing steamapps folder at the root of the launcher, it was necessary where it was: The SteamCMD bug is that apparently they changed something that requires ANOTHER “steamapps” folder to be present at the location I mentioned.

All you needed was to create a new empty folder, not copy or move anything

Suggestion: Read the two messages above yours

Possible work around:

If you have installed the Dedicated Server Launcher executable in a location “L” (ex: C:\Myserver), when starting it you will obtain the following:

“L”\DedicatedServerLauncher\ConanExilesDedicatedServer\ConanSandbox…"

in which the editor files are supposed to be installed.

Try to manually add a “steamapps”(1) folder inside the ConanExilesDedicatedServer

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Then start the launcher normally and try to start the server.

1) By “add” I mean “Create a folder there”, don’t...

I poked around, and it seems that other people had similar issues on other projects, so it definitely looks like one of the recent SteamCMD updates changed the behavior, and it’s not clear what we can do to fix it.

Removing the +force_install_dir fixes the issue, but then it means you have no control about where the files get downloaded, and in any case that means all the existing SteamCMD based tools that are using the feature are broken, which is kind of a problem.

Ok, I tried without the

+force_install_dir “C:\DSL\DedicatedServerLauncher\ConanExilesDedicatedServer”

and indeed the download worked.
So the question is… why???

Has Valve changed something to the commands?

I’m confused: A couple messages above you said “it work”, then tyou paste a command that also has the write error

Hmm, interesting, I tried on a brand new machine, and indeed I got the same thing:

Running SteamCMD
- Executable: C:\DSL\DedicatedServerLauncher\steamcmd.exe
- Parameters:  +login anonymous  +force_install_dir "C:\DSL\DedicatedServerLauncher\ConanExilesDedicatedServer"  +app_update 443030 -beta default +quit
----- Started Tue 06/08/2021 12:02:40.03 -----
Redirecting stderr to 'C:\DSL\DedicatedServerLauncher\logs\stderr.txt'
[  0%] Checking for available updates...
[----] Verifying installation...
Steam Console Client (c) Valve Corporation
-- type 'quit' to exit --
Loading Steam API...OK.
Connecting anonymously to Steam Public...Logged in OK
Waiting for user info...OK
ERROR! Failed to install app '443030' (Disk write failure)
----- Finished Tue 06/08/2021 12:02:43.31 with status code 8 -----
Waiting for 3 seconds, press a key to continue ...

Then I guess I need more details, like what is the hardware and software configuration (operating system, type of drive, etc…) if you have done some disk check, rebooted, excluded the folder from your anti-virus, etc…

A quick web search reported similar issues for many games over the years, some people on linux, some on windows, etc…

Also I assume you are not running the launcher in admin mode, just running normally, or on an account with limited access rights, or some fancy configuration.

Where did you try to install the launcher?

Generally I suggest something simple like “C:\Exiles” or “C:\DSL” and to avoid “desktop”, “app data”, “download”, “my documents” or other random locations with long paths, weird permissions, spaces in names, etc…

I need more details, like for example “what is the name you entered” and “what did you get when it’s truncated”. Are you entering some super long names, or things like having forbidden words, like “official”?

Never seen that one before

Does it change the name back to the previous name, or something else you never wrote yourself?

If you have a more detailed sequence of events, that would help, and/or some screen shots
Also, which version of the Launcher are you using?

If you change parameters while the server is running, there’s a significant chance for the parameters to be rewritten by the server.

This has changed over time, but generally speaking, if you are planning on changing parameters, better shutdown the server, change the parameters, save, restart.

I realize that 1.3.8 is still the official DSL version, which means it does not have the discord API fix which are in the beta.

Does everybody think 1.4.5 is a worthy replacement for the stable version?

Ok, then I fear I can’t help you on that one, there are many people who wrote scripts and things you can use, your best bet it to ask on the Admins United Conan Discord server.

Good luck

Define “clean”.
Do you want to start from scratch, or to keep something from the existing server (characters, …)?

There was not many changes, but port forwarding depends on many things, and if any of these change it will not work anymore, so what I would check is:

• Have you forwarded both TCP and UDP for each of the port
• Has the IP of the server changed? (make sure forwarding is still forwarding to the right machine)
• Check that anti-virus or firewall are not blocking anyhing
• Make sure that no other program (client, server, anything…) is using these same ports

(and just to make sure, I ran the test on my machine, in case the back-end the DSL is trying to connect to would be down, and it is green here)

Normally it is only grayed out if the server is running.
The port can only be tested if nothing else is already connected (or trying to connect) to it.

“Root” just means “raíz” (Racine), it’s not an actual folder, it just means “The base of the drive”, so if you have a disk drive called C, the root is “C:”.

So what he meant, is that instead of:
C:\SomeFolder\User\DesktopMaybe\SomeOtherFolder\Download\DedicatedServerLauncher\Conan"
you just put in
C:\ConanLauncher

or something like that, short and nice, no long path, no spaces, ñö accentuatèd charactærs…