AMS2 Dedicated Server Tool / SteamCMD Support

Ya , I don't blame Reiza for this , this is SMS's doing .. it's there engine and DS system , PC2 suffers the same demise for league play .. Its doable , but with no adequate admin control in game its hit or miss for members .. And that horrible 2 min server lock out has pissed off more members than i can count , practice all week , get on server for the 1 hour practice , make it threw Q but get dumped just before race starts and cant get back in if less than 2 min in session .. ..I have had to moderate our forums to may times from ppl flaming this one feature .. if you can call it a feature & with over 1000+ members the word travels fast ....This is also SMS's work .. Please Reiza can you erase this part of the mp code ?? It's sent more of our members packing away from AMS2 then any of the awesome driving can bring in ..

 

Trying to get this setup on a Google Cloud server running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS using wine. Anyone else have success and can help?

So far I've done all of the of the following from a fresh VM installation:

Create Steam user and go to it's directory:
sudo useradd -m steam
sudo passwd steam
cd /home/steam

perform updates, add packages, install steamcmd:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository multiverse
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update
sudo apt install lib32gcc1 steamcmd

Link steamcmd executable file:
sudo ln -s /usr/games/steamcmd steamcmd

Switch to steam user, run steamcmd, install dedicated server files:
su steam
steamcmd
@sSteamCmdForcePlatformType windows
login anonymous
force_install_dir home/steam/ams2
app_update 1338040 validate
quit

That's as far as I've got (haven't even gotten to wine yet). running the app_update 1338040 displays the following message:
Update state (0x5) verifying install, progress: 0.31 (49432 / 15759854)
Success! App '1338040' fully installed.

However, when I go do the directory /home/steam there is no ams2 folder and corresponding files.

I'm very new with Linux, so be gentle

 

figured out what was causing my issue.

the following line:
force_install_dir home/steam/ams2
needed to be:
force_install_dir /home/steam/ams2

I'll carry on and see if I can get this thing to work.. lol

 

this project can help you!
betorobson/pc2-ams2-ds-betorobson

 

Having trouble setting the opponent difficulty in the dedicated server to the equivalent of that from a created lobby.

Say for example it was set to 85 in the lobbies and the same value in the server configuration. The AI laptimes may be 3 secs quicker.

I think it might be caused by the limits 70-120 in the game lobby and 0-100 in the dedicated server. Any one else have this issue and known roughly the conversion?

 

At some point I'm going to have to figure out this docker and containers thing..

In the meantime, aside from fixing the force directory issue. I also installed wine-development and tried running the dedicated server file after setting up the server.cfg file. It looked like everything ran properly, but the server didn't show up in the lobby. I made sure all the proper ports were forwarded (same ones I got to work on a Windows server).

I've got ACC running using the same process.

Anyone else get this working using similar methods?

 

I am running it directly with the wine-stable distro on debian buster but run with wine64 to force the 64 bit program to run since the DS executable is 32 bit and you need a 64 bit environment if you want to host more than 16 people. When launching i always had a minor error so I just researched a missing dependency to show all the server outputs and since then it has been running without hiccups... well, except for the fact the DS is a rebroadcaster and still needs a host to "be active", that the host migration bug needs fixing, that after a while the host's session is bugged and stops loading new players (visually), that you can't have more than 20 people on Nordschleife or the server becomes unstable and lags & drops people, that the DS program needs a complete restart when it hangs on a soft reboot or that it needs more admin controls. (In other words, you can see that the DS was really cobbled together back in pCars1 WMD development days)

Aside for that, all good.

 

Yeah, gonna just trash this project for now and stick with running ACC events with our club. We've got some people interested in doing some open wheel stuff though, maybe we'll go back to AC for that until this sim is ready.

 

I know you told me this in the past and I'm not sure I fully understood this as I'm not that smart.
But do you mean:
1. Install the DS on the same PC as you are running the game.
2. Have the correct ports forwarded on your router for the DS to your gaming PC.
3. Have a basic server config file with the server name and password ready to go on your gaming PC.
4. Add the "-selectDS" to the launchparameters of AMS2 as you launch the game.
5. Go into the multiplayer browser in AMS2.
6. Select Create a lobby.

And then at that point, you can control the DS multiplayer lobby on you gaming PC?

 

i had a similar problem to start with
//"AllowablePenaltyTime" : 5, not sure if yours is the same had to delete or cancel it as shown.

 

Hello Just got a dedicated server running,
Working well, all except one things in one of the rotation, I wish to have ( X60) on the time, for a mini esk endurance race running 10 laps.
See Below.

// Track and vehicle class. Should be identical to the first session above.
"TrackId" : "Bathurst_2020",
"VehicleClassId" : "P3",
//"VehicleModelId" : "MCR S2000",

// Session length / time overrides. For multi-race events leave practice length at 0 and qualifying at 5.
"PracticeLength" : 6,
"PracticeDateHour" : 0,
"QualifyLength" : 12,
"QualifyDateHour" : 15,
"RaceLength" : 10,
"RaceDateHour" : 17,
"RaceDateProgression" : 60,

// Optional mandatory pit stop, rolling start, and formation lap. Formation lap works for rolling start only.
"RaceMandatoryPitStops" : 1,
//"RaceRollingStart" : 0,
//"RaceFormationLap" : 0,

// Race weather overrides.
//"RaceWeatherSlots" : 3,
//"RaceWeatherSlot1" : "LightCloud",
//"RaceWeatherSlot2" : "Hazy",
//"RaceWeatherSlot3" : "Clear",
//"RaceWeatherSlot4" : "LightCloud",
},

However this seem not to do laps like all the others, and in fact creates a 10 min countdown.
With no X60 time lapse. I would like to drive through the night.

If anyone can help that would be great. !

 

Hello
do you manage to adjust the track and track temperatures?
If yes, how ?

 

Hello
following today's update the server bug.
the pilots disappear then appear with a rise in ping.
it was not present before

 

Why some DS don't show in lobby after last update?

 

OK FINALLY!!! I got the the "Ready Input button" to show up and have no AI in the lobby. I now have an idea where the bug is after a lot of testing.
If you build the "server.cfg" file with most of the settings the way you want in the file, the DS will respect all the options you specify. However, some settings/flags are unknown because there is no documentation:
eg: The flag for "time progression",
eg: How to select different classes and cars for multiclass races. Apparently seperating them by commas doesn't work or giving different values to the same flag line after line.

The issues happen when you use the Web GUI to change any setting on the DS, as soon as you do that bam! The "Wait for Race Ready Input" stops working, the AI might show up, etc etc etc. Because I don't know all the different flags, I would get the DS close enough and the jump on the WebGUI and immediately change a bunch of variables to suit what I wanted but apparently this broke the settings on the DS and I could NEVER get the DS to work correctly. Thus the constant frustration and disagreement with others in this thread. I really thought I was going insane.

It seems the issue lies with the WebGUI and when changes are pushed to the server, something is getting lost in translation, either the wrong values are being pushed for certain flags or flags for other attributes are being reset to default when other flags are changed. This same issue happens with PCars2 and AMS2 DS. It seems like a bug carried over from the PCars2 DS. I wasted a lot of hours troubleshooting and tracking these issues down but I'm hoping someone can finally look into this and help fix it, so the WebGUI works the way we expect it to.

BTW the "-selectDS" option never worked for me in both PCars2 and AMS2. When the DS is launched on the same PC as the game, it refuses to show up on the multiplayer DS lobby.

 

Not sure if anyone can guide me, we have a rented server for AMS2 but are experiencing issues with really bad syncing. In some cases cars appear and disappear, others have connection issues on joining simultaneously noticed this with other sever connects. AI options in server side do not match in games server settings on occasion almost like some other persistency exists.

Is this a bug ?
Do others have the same issue ?

Really want to support the community with a server for races, but currently feel that it is unstable ?

 

Yes we have the same issue, I guess apply a little math to it !
120/100*n
Either trial and error it seemed to work for us on our server.
I reckon that 84 must be 100 on normal.