A two weeks ago, I became unable to access my old "saved games" /servers. However I was still able to access servers I recently created. This changed as now I am unable to access ANY server, including ones I create, quit, and re-enter moments later.
Several years ago, I used to work in Quality Assurance in the Game Industry, so I've decided to investigate and poke at the issue a bit to see if I could get more information, and perhaps resolve my issue. A few things I've discovered:
It's happening on both of the computers I have in my household. One is a Windows 10 install, another is a Windows 11 install. Completely different components (DxDiag), different anti virus, different settings, different steam accounts. I disabled all mods, uninstalled and reinstalled, created a new server without mods, issue presented within 20 minutes. The issue seems to be accelerating as less time is necessary with each repetition to get it to happen.
I went through all of the "repair steps" from forum repair postings:
https://support.klei.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407489414548-Getting-a-Dedicated-Server-Failed-To-Start-Error-Message#:~:text=If you are encountering this,Together\bin64\dontstarve_steam_x64.exe
and then
https://support.klei.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029882171-Getting-a-Unable-to-write-to-files-in-the-config-directory-Error-Message
To give a quick summary of the above that I have tried:
1. I added all the file locations to my anti-virus exceptions
2. I checked for Randsomware to see if would be blocking.
3. I removed all my mods.
Then
4. I made sure steam and the app were running in admin mode.
5. I made sure there were no invasive third party software.
6. I uninstalled and reinstalled. (which caused the issue to occur right away instead of having to wait)
Now let's discuss the final option, which... actually did work.
7. Added the "-persistent_storage_root c:\DontStarveTogether " to my advanced launch options.
I was able to copy some of my files over to this new file on my C: drive, and the old servers also work and launch from the new folder once copied over. This IS a... kind of solution. However, not a permanent one. Considering what I had to go through to get here, also not a great one. Would still look into the issue.
But that means this issue completely revolves around a setting which was changed with the "My Documents" folder, which I did not change myself. The servers loaded fine one day, and did not the next.
Uploaded files explanation:
the "server_log_worked.txt" is from few years ago when it was working just fine on my machine, so it can be compared to "server_log_didntwork.txt" where the same exact server was attempted to be opened. That particular server has not been touched in about a year. I will attempt to add the client_log from the second computer as well.
server_log_didntwork.txt server_log_worked.txt client_log.txt DxDiag.txt
I'm not sure what caused the "My Documents" folder to reject servers being loaded after 24 hours and the game restarting. Still testing to see if I can narrow down why.
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