DOCS The Server Admin Handbook thread

Does anyone have any advice on what spec of VM is recommended to host an ACC server for Enduro races, on AWS?
We're looking to move away from Elite for hosting, and want to host with AWS or similar. We have up to a 50 car grid, though 30-40 would be "normal", so we'd expect around 120 drivers connected at any one time.

What CPU/RAM would be required for this level of hosting? Bandwidth with AWS shouldn't be much of any issue, nor should SSD in theory.
I just don't want to overpay and have wasted resource, or similarly do it cheaply and have a bad experience for our drivers!


Any advice will be appreciated!

 

recommend the free tier 12 month option to try... the league I used to help run that worked well for 40+ on big nights, biggest requirements was bandwidth over cpu/ram, but then u might see other issues if u are hitting 120ppl.

 

Yeah I’m using a server on the free tier for our P server, but I know for our race requirements, it’s just not powerful enough.

 

you should be able to track resource requirements on your practice server and suitably increase whats needed then?

 

Yes and no. Absolutely that’s possible, but it’s uncommon to get even double digits of users on for 99% of practice time. Usually the 24hrs before an endurance race might see those kind of numbers on at any one time, but for the rest of the months it’s down a handful at most concurrently

 

Hello everyone,
I've read through all but couldn't find an updated reply so here we are. Does the server has a sort of an API or something like the shared memory in the client?
I'm developing an app which will launch automatically server instances and would be nice to know for example if drivers are in or not. I saw that apperently the only way to know is the log (which is refreshed once the session is ended), is there any other possibility? (if not reading the console itself)

Thank you in advance

 

no any api
but log file is updating in realtime, not after the session ends. You can try to use it.

 

Sorry if I missed this covered elsewhere, but is it possible in entrylist.json to override SOME driver info values and not others. For example right now I am trying something like:

Code:

{
  "entries": [
    {
      "drivers": [
        {
          "firstName": "Clint",
          "lastName": "Carpenter",
          "shortName": "Car",
          "playerID": "S123456789"
        }
      ],
      "forcedCarModel": -1,
      "overrideDriverInfo": 1,
      "isServerAdmin": 1
    }
  ]
}

This correctly forces the name values and sets admin, but is also forcing the driverCategory to 0. I'd like to keep the driverCategory from the user's client settings while still overriding the name.

 

In another entry list related question. We would like to have the on track names match our the league's format [First Name Last Initial] (Clint C). Obviously ACC is defaulting to [First Initial Last name] (C. Carpenter). If in the entryList.json, I set the firstName to empty string and lastName to "Clint C" the tags on the cars look correct as do the leaderboards. However, in the times tab ACC is using different formatting so the name is displaying as ". Clint C"
Any smart ideas on how to get "Clint C" consistently in ACC?

 

Hi all,

I have a few issues I am struggling with and hope you can help as I can't find it in the handbook. We have a private server for the PS5 so I know not everything works for us on console:

1: I am struggling to find how I set teamName on the entry list. When I set it it doesn't appear but everything else is fine.

Code:

{
  "entries": [
    {
      "drivers": [
        {
          "firstName": "Mike",
          "lastName": "Matthews",
          "shortName": "MIK",
          "driverCategory": 2,
          "playerID": "P7587386549723186224"
       }
      ],
      "raceNumber": 11,
      "customCar": "",
      "forcedCarModel": -1,
      "overrideDriverInfo": 1,
      "isServerAdmin": 0,
      "overrideCarModelForCustomCar": 0,
      "teamName": "SimPlay_Racing",
      "defaultGridPosition": -1,
      "configVersion": 1
    }
  ],
  "forceEntryList": 0
}

2: We run a full limited formation lap. Is there a setting I am missing so that drivers who fail to select drive and start from the pitlane don't go a lap down or is this juts because of the formation lap and nothing that can be done other than change back to the short one?

 

looks okay to me. Not sure if underscore is allowed in teamName, so you could check with a different teamname. other than that the only option is
forceEntryList: 1

if that doesn't work it's most likely not supported for ps5.

settings.json
shortFormationLap: 0
formationLapType: 3

 

Cheers for that, I thought it look ok. Nothing in the handbook mentions this setting though. I have tried with no underscore and it was the same. I have seen another racing league do it on PS5, we have asked them. The force entry lists could be the key to it to be honest.

 

Hi mate,

The “team name question” also cost me a good month with countless hours of research. I also asked a few server admins who had already implemented it, but they played dead...

I added a screenshot, I think that's how you want to display it. If so, you can buy the information for $500...

Adding a line called “teamname” in entrylist.json does nothing. I also tried it with two “last name” lines. Also in vain.

The solution is, at least if you know it, quite simple...:
You leave a space after the last name in the entry list, followed by a \n

/n is the abbreviation for a line break. As I said, if you know it's clear, if you don't you're out of luck.

It looks something like this...
entrylist.json:
"lastName": "Lastname \nTeamname"

Let me know if I wrote the whole text for free or if this is the info you need..

Greetings Miesepammel

 

The space is useless though, it works the same without any space.

 

Ok,thanks for the information...