Just for my two cents… and I am 98% certain it not worth even 2 cents. I have a Dual Core AMD that I have had for 6-7 years… I believe in running a machine until I can’t use it any longer. I put a AMD R9-270 with 8 gigs of ram in it when my old video card died. With the intention of buying a new MB and CPU later. (Have not got those yet.) I got the MMOK it ( https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?53208-MMO-Starter-Kit and decided to go thru the set up and run the “UE4 Server” on my old clunker AMD. I on a whim decided to install Windows 10 Server on the old AMD… and it together very very nicely, and was fast. Oh, the machine has 4 gigs of ram.
After compiling the MMO kit server I moved it over to the AMD server and tried to run it. I could not… It wanted sound card drivers. (FROWNY FACE!) I had PHP 5.6 installed… IIS up and running… PHP running and the darn UE server… running as a server… no graphics… wanted a darn sound card driver. Looking around… there is not one for Windows 10 that will run the sound card.
Brain storm hits me about now:
Wipe out Windows 10 Server and install my copy of Window 2008 (Not Windows 2008 r2) and recreate the whole mess.
10 hours later… updates are done… IIS is up and running… PHP 5.6 works… website works… copied the MMO kit server over… and BLAMMO! ERROR… “The procedure entry point k32getprocessimagefilenamew could not be located” searching, I found this: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/176576/how-do-i-fix-a-entry-point-not-found-error-for-the.html
and it says my version of windows is to old.
<insert a countless number of frustrated words>
Two days to calm down and now back in forums HOPING against Hope that I’ll get a another answer. What I think I am going to be told is I have to have Windows 2008 R2 or Windows 2012 Server to run a unreal server with out graphics.
Do I really have to spend 1,000 dollars on hardware and 700 dollars on Software to run a unreal server?
Why do we have to have SUCH high requirements for a server? I can see graphics requirements… but to run a server?