if you change map via sandstorm assistant the server will come back to life,
this can be confirmed and reproduced in this scenario
yes they are not good on communicating even with confirmed and reproducible issues.
sadly they are easy targets for criticism, due to lack of the ability to fix long term bugs, I dont think they actually know how to fix it, perhaps dont have the skills, with terrible optimizations, terrible comms to the community, and lack of any new content for over 6 months, its easy to be down on them.
but its a good game and has huge potential but needs fixing and NEW Content,
1 new map will not fix it on its own.
also see this post another confirmed and reproducible cause of stutter
https://forums.focus-home.com/topic/37432/new-player-causes-extra-bot-spawn-stutter
what we have noticed if you have 5 players
for example we have max bots set to 30 and min 10, so we have 20 with 5
a new player joins who is dead and immediately the bot number increases to 23 bots which then causes stutter.
what it should do is wait until the new player spawns and then add the bots.
this is a definite cause of stutter that we can reproduce.
I have a 1080ti, 16gb ddr4 hyperx gaming ram, i7, 7700, game and os on two different ssd's
and the game runs much worse for me to, I have deleted the config file and also reinstalled from scratch.
all other games run fine no stutter not hitches, all on extreme.
confused as to why 6 months down the line this seems to get worse for some.
not sure but not 1.1.3
but also see this thread
https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?url=https://asciinema.org/a/V5aXG10PatIZmDpcdRN31NxUz
which describes and proves a thread leak with rcon and nwlp
which is another cause of performance degradation.
https://asciinema.org/a/V5aXG10PatIZmDpcdRN31NxUz
and whilst we are here, this one is confirmed cause of huge stutter at bot spawn
https://steamcommunity.com/app/581320/discussions/0/1813170373217228279/
that would be great, this is new since the latest patch which is much much worse for stuttering.
TAC struemer has created a google doc working document adding all the suggestions brought up by server admins on steam
google doc link
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hIej8r25a8Y_ObF2tmsirQxlrnyXsmdyXz3fsVQUnjI/
steam discussion here
https://steamcommunity.com/app/581320/discussions/1/1742230617608862874/
seeing this in the server logs since 1.1.4, and would explain why this patch is much worse with stuttering
[2019.04.08-18.00.21:710][ 50]LogNet: Dropped 2 packets due to congestion in the voicechannel
[2019.04.08-18.00.21:710][ 50]LogNet: Warning: Network saturated
[2019.04.08-18.00.21:710][ 50]LogNet: Dropped 2 packets due to congestion in the voicechannel
[2019.04.08-18.00.21:710][ 50]LogNet: Warning: Network saturated
[2019.04.08-18.00.21:710][ 50]LogNet: Dropped 2 packets due to congestion in the voicechannel
[2019.04.08-18.00.21:710][ 50]LogNet: Warning: Network saturated
[2019.04.08-18.00.21:711][ 50]LogNet: Dropped 2 packets due to congestion in the voicechannel
[2019.04.08-18.00.21:711][ 50]LogNet: Warning: Network saturated
[2019.04.08-18.00.21:711][ 50]LogNet: Dropped 2 packets due to congestion in the voicechannel
[2019.04.08-18.00.21:711][ 50]LogNet: Warning: Network saturated
[2019.04.08-18.00.21:711][ 50]LogNet: Dropped 2 packets due to congestion in the voicechannel
[2019.04.08-18.00.21:711][ 50]LogNet: Warning: Network saturated
[2019.04.08-18.00.21:712][ 50]LogNet: Dropped 2 packets due to congestion in the voicechannel
it is every few minutes.