Can't host servers

[n00b660]

Disclaimers

• I have searched the issue tracker to check if the issue has already been reported.
• My issue happened while using mods.

What happened?

When attempting to host server the popups shown in the screenshot appear but if i try to host DedicatedServer.exe it works perfectly fine, no mods are installed and joining servers is also working.

I tried verifying files, reinstalling game, removing everything barotrauma related from appdata, unsubscribing from all mods but that didn't fix the issue.

Reproduction steps

1. Attempt to host server 2. Get server crash popup

Bug prevalence

Happens every time I play

Single player or multiplayer?

Multiplayer hosted from the in-game menu (= using a listen server)

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No response

Version

v1.4.6.0 (Blood in the Water Update, hotfix 2)

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No response

Which operating system did you encounter this bug on?

Windows

Relevant error messages and crash reports

There aren't any crash reports

[n00b660]

Please help

[n00b660]

I still can't host servers

[n00b660]

still can't host... this sucks please help

[SomeRandomNoobKekeke]

Are you sure there's no servercrashreport.log in barotrauma folder?

[n00b660]

absolutely nothing

[n00b660]

I also tried to get help in discord server but nothing helped https://discord.com/channels/103209684680323072/587647684794515468/1237782362025230416

[SomeRandomNoobKekeke]

and no servercrashreportslim.log?

[SomeRandomNoobKekeke]

Are you on windows? could you go here
Download client and server builds for your system (e.g. luacsforbarotrauma_build_windows_client.zip and luacsforbarotrauma_build_windows_server.zip)
create a new folder and unpack both arhives there
Then go to barotrauma folder (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Barotrauma) And copy Content folder from there to your new folder
Run barotrauma.exe and try again? will it crash?

[n00b660]

still crashes....

[SomeRandomNoobKekeke]

Then idk

[SomeRandomNoobKekeke]

So... There's nothing red in console when you try to host, no servercrashreport.log or servercrashreportslim.log in game folder?

[n00b660]

nothing

[SomeRandomNoobKekeke]

Then excuse me for not helping

I thought i could make a build where server send you some useful info instead of "oops, i crashed", but it turned out, those are not messages from server, and there's no way to know

I managed to crash the server on startup, I got the same messages as yours, but my server wrote me servercrashreport.log before it died
Think, what could prevent game from writing a file to that folder? Mb you got some weird permissions, idk

Also, when server dies, it tries to 1 save crash report 2 send report via gameAnalytics 3 say bb to clients
Enable gameAnalytics if you didn't, mb then some crash reports actually reach the barodevs and they'll notice you

[BlackMoons]

The error claims it could not find serversettings.xml at steam\common\barotrauma

make sure it exists. You could try verifying files as I believe that is part of the default barotrauma install. (you'll have to reinstall LUA afterwards)

Also make sure you have some free disk space, as I can't imagine how you lost the file to begin with unless the game was unable to write it one day.

[n00b660]

still crashes...

[SomeRandomNoobKekeke]

I guess you'll have to host dedicated server then
Also lua doc says:

So i guess problem might be with your steam
Dedicated server

[n00b660]

well maybe, steam is acting up and i can't even launch the game using it.

[n00b660]

Solution found: it was all the antivirus, just turned it off and everything is working perfectly fine now! thanks for helping.

[SomeRandomNoobKekeke]