Unsolved No runway lights using stand alone server.

[Amway14]

Runway lights will not come on during night operations when using a stand alone server. I am using g_bNoRender . Airfield is pitch black for ramp start, takeoff and landing. Is there a work around so I can use NoRender?

[airtex2019]

I’ve seen this reported … I don’t recall if there’s a known workaround.

https://forum.falcon-bms.com/search?term=runway lights&in=titlesposts&matchWords=all&timeRange=31104000&timeFilter=newer&sortBy=relevance&sortDirection=desc&showAs=posts

[Seifer]

Been chasing this for a long while. Do you have a repro case? A save file that always happens?

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@Amway14 said in No runway lights using stand alone server.:

Runway lights will not come on during night operations when using a stand alone server. I am using g_bNoRender . Airfield is pitch black for ramp start, takeoff and landing. Is there a work around so I can use NoRender?

in the server of our wing it happened when we changed to 4.37 u1 I gave myself the task of trying to replicate the problem of the lights but I couldn’t create it in SP, they always turned on, but not on the wing server with the same campaign. In the end, we kept flying with the lights off, which forced us to increase the preparation and procedures (we got something good out of it). Now to do the update of the u2 I decided to do a new installation of the server and with the same campaign now if they turn on. we keep the same network configurations and same campaign. Only the server installation is new.

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to be fair, it seems that the server listens to me.

Now the lights don’t come on. Yesterday the server crashed and I modified the campaign, removed some squadrons and changed the time.
so the games of light begin

[VIPER. 0]

family, I have been working here for hours on the issue of lights and I have carried out all kinds of tests, put the original campaign, ours, with and without graphic quality on the server, the plane from the server on the ramp or in a taxiway started, flight training or combat, and many other variants that I don’t remember much testing. The only result I got was removing the NORENDER and allowing the server to be mounted in the cabin but rendering a 3d image, that was the only way it left me for the clients to turn on the runway lights. It has nothing to do with the mission or the campaign, it has to do with the fact that in NORENDER it interferes with something that cannot be found.
At the end I left the wing server rendering 3d image and minimized it by the task manager, this is what it is consuming

Pretty much the same as with NORENDER so I’ll leave it that way until we figure out what’s going on.

greetings.

[Amway14]

@VIPER-0 Thank you for the info.

[Seifer]

@VIPER-0 hi buddy, I believe this is simply coincidence.

This bug has happened since 4.35 (thus before no render option), in MP only as you described.

I believe it has something to do with mission commander, because it only happened on edited campaigns.

Back then I had created a special exe with lots of information to catch this, but then the bug simply stopped happening.

If you can get it consistently in MP, maybe it is time to create this exe again and try to catch the bugger.

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@Seifer said in No runway lights using stand alone server.:

@VIPER-0 hi buddy, I believe this is simply coincidence.

This bug has happened since 4.35 (thus before no render option), in MP only as you described.

I believe it has something to do with mission commander, because it only happened on edited campaigns.

Back then I had created a special exe with lots of information to catch this, but then the bug simply stopped happening.

If you can get it consistently in MP, maybe it is time to create this exe again and try to catch the bugger.

You know that you are quite right, after the wing pilots in a night flight informed me that they did not turn on the runway lights and the server is rendering a 3d image, so it is as you say, brother. It is pure coincidence and my criteria only added more noise to the matter. Maybe when I get home today I’m going to see the MC thing because it’s out there. Within the light failure variables there is always the MC so something happens. investigate further. so the wing server will be off today