Hi. I've been playing about with getting the rFactor2 Dedicated Server running on a PC with a Linux OS, and the notes accessible via the link below are the results of lots of testing. Using Linux like this means that if you have a spare "old" PC lying around your can host your own server without needing a Windows licence. This includes details of install of Zorin Linux, SteamCMD, rfactor2 Server, Log Analyser and some basic configuration. At the moment this hasn't been tested with Paid For content - just that available as the default S397 and Steam Workshop mods. Not tested on a cloud based system (yet!) but in theory that should be possible if the port forwarding can be configured. I'd be interested on any feedback EDIT: See revised notes in following post
Updated the notes to include using Paid For DLC which seems to work OK - at least for me. Included some screengrabs in this version. Have removed files from previous location and added to this post. I'd be very interested to hear from anyone that tries this and of their success - or not
Hi mate, great content! thanks! I want to do it in a proxmox VM, and i want to auto-start the rfactor2 server with the OS restart, it is possible?
Thanks @dusnake. Ummmm... interestingly I did try a Proxmox setup with a VM running Zorin as I thought that would be a nice thing to be able to do. After getting the initial Zorin system working I changed the hardware config - different and more CPUs and more RAM. Installed Proxmox and a Zorin VM but I found the rF2 server wouldn't run. This was due to an issue with WINE on the VM throwing errors which I didn't follow up to resolve. So reverted back to the original hardare config and all was OK. Not bothered to go back to investigate the Proxmox setup TBH I don't see why a cron job when the VM startup runs shouldn't be able to start the Dedicated Server but I've only ever used it's GUI interface.
Not tried it. It appears to get all the params through the JSON files so in theory it may be possible... You could use a tool like AutoIt to simulate the button presses, but I'd imagine you'd have to automatically log into the Linux desktop to get the GUI interface to work... I can see another project here...
Congratulations... I'm glad it works for you. I'll have to retest it myself now I'm guessing that I have some hardware that causes a problem. I was using a Dell R410 with dual Xeon 5500 processors and 128GB RAM Works OK with just one Xeon and 64GB RAM and no Proxmox
