Evening-time game is unplayable in MP

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Keen Software House

Hello, Engineer,

thank you for reaching our forum with this problem that you are experiencing.

Can you please share me more information?

What exactly is happening, please? The game is freezing/lagging for... you? Your friend? Both of you?

Can you please try to describe me how the lags looks like, what is frozen (and what is not), how often does that happen, does it happen more when you (or your friend) do some definite actions, or is it random, how long does the freeze long for when it happens?

Or you can share me a screen recording so I can see that.

Do you experience this problem also in other game modes (single player, multiplayer in Lobby mode, or other (dedicated) server (community ones, officials...)?

Are there any mods on the affected game? If yes, are you experiencing the same even when playing vanilla (no mods) game? Can you please try?

You might want to try our general workarounds that help most of the players to solve most of the problems. These are:

• Verify your game files in Steam – right-click on Space Engineers in Steam Library → Properties → Installed Files → Verify Integrity of Game Files
• Delete SpaceEngineers.cfg file (it means your game configuration will be deleted) – you can access your SpaceEngineers.cfg by typing %appdata% into your Windows search bar and you will be redirected to the hidden Roaming folder. After that just follow: \Roaming\SpaceEngineers.
• Delete ShaderCache folder – same access as above
• Back up your whole Space Engineers Roaming folder and delete it
• Restart Steam
• Reinstall VC Redist 2017
• Update graphic drivers
• Reinstall the game
• Make sure your operating system is fully updated

If nothing from this list would work for you, can you please reply to me question from the beginning of this reply, and also share me a log file from the affected game? It would be best if you can share me both logs – one from you and one from your friend, if he is experiencing exactly the same problem.

You can access your log files by typing %appdata% into your Windows search bar and you will be redirected to the hidden Roaming folder. After that just follow: \Roaming\SpaceEngineers.

Thank you in advance.

Kind Regards

Keen Software House: QA Department

Im an PC-man, working with computers, so general workarounds is not about me.

This is not low-fps lags (low graphics ssettings on RTX 2060S), it is network lag.

1) What exactly is happening, please? The game is freezing/lagging for... you? Your friend? Both of you? - I create locally steam friends vanilla map at daytime (10-18 hours) and all works fine, but after ~19h(evening, Moscow time) my joined friend start to suffer network lags:

all interactions with game have this 10-20 secs of lag

1) entering cockpit can take around 10-20 seconds

2) character moving somewhere like from hill, but he on flat blocks (he stops after that 10-20 secs)

3) friend cant join for a while (host leaved, long loading etc.)

So if i create server on my Dedicated PC in LAN (<1ms ping) we are both have this network lags.

Im looked to my Router (Mikrotik) connections log and seen same Steam ip we are both connected from.

This lags not everyday(evening) but 6/1 a week.

I realized that this is Steam network problems(Overload) and there is nothing i can do about this, so i play alone...