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Most of these based in the EU or East Coast USA. We have noticed that the servers listed in-game that you have a lower ping to, are favoured at showing up for you.įor example, when testing for ourselves, 95% of the servers we saw were under 100 ping. If the your connection to the game server has a high ping. Your server may show up sometimes, and not others. The servers shown in-game are chosen randomly and based on other unknown factors. There are typically over 25,000 ARK servers online at any given time. The in-game server list only shows around 5000 servers at any one time. If you do not have a password set on the server, make sure the "Show Password Protected" option is disabled when searching in-game.Ĭhecked the above without luck? Please note: We have noticed before certain names to effect a servers viability in the server list. Try changing the server name to something more simple and without special characters. You should remove any for testing purposes. We have noticed a few very outdated mods preventing clients servers showing up.
ARK CANNOT RETRIEVE ADDRESS MOD
It increases the chance of an incompatible or broken mod from preventing your server showing up. No mods that have not been updated to the latest version are on the server.Īlthough many times its perfectly fine to have mods that are older and not updated for the most recent version on the server, without them causing problems.
ARK CANNOT RETRIEVE ADDRESS UPDATE
If using the Auto Managed Mods System it will check and update the mods on startup. You can update the server by stopping it, then clicking the Steam update button in your TCAdmin Control Panel.Īll mods are updated. Give it 15 mins after its fully started up for it to register with the ARK listing servers too.
ARK CANNOT RETRIEVE ADDRESS HOW TO
The server is fully online, please see above for how to check. There are many reasons for this, you should first check the following: So, why isn't my ARK: Survival Evolved game server showing up in the in-game list? Startup can take a varying amount of time depending on how many mods you have, if the game server is on HDD, SSD or NVME disk, if other game servers are starting up at the same time, or if its starting up for the first time or just after an update. If the slots are 0/0 or it shows as not responding, its likely still starting up. Watch the "Memory" amount in the control panel, make sure Auto Refresh is ticked, the ram level will have usually stopped moving when its online, if its still increasing then its likely still starting up.Ĭheck in Steam Favourites following this article, see if it shows up with the name displayed. When do i know when the server has started fully? Make sure you give the server enough time to start up fully before proceeding. If you do not see your server in Steam Server favourites, please contact us and we will be happy to investigate. This issue does not prevent you from joining the game server, you will always be able to join via the Steam Server favourites.