Swarm Network Distribution

Development Programming & Scripting Multiplayer & Networking
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Hi,

in the last days I tried to get Swarm working properly. I want to use 3 computers for the lighting calculation. The Swarm coordinator find all agents. But as other users have the same problem the connection drops randomly for no reason. I tried a lot of things and read nearly every post I could find on this topic.

  • Firewall is setup to allow ICMP and incoming / outgoing remote ports
  • The game folder is shared in network
  • The groups and names are setup
  • All PCs are available

I use a gigabit network with cable network router. All PCs have Windows 10 installed.

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Hopefully someone has an idea how to solve it because I really need some hardware support for light build (even my current hardware is not the strongest).

Thank you!

Kind regards

Andre Schaaf-Ledermüller

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Hi,

I could solve my problem by changing the SwarmAgent through code and runtime setup.

I changed the SwarmAgent source code and set the busy threshold value to 80%. Now the jobs are getting assigned and I also set within the Swarm settings the remote agent timeout to something very high: 10000. It seems that at some point it tries to ping the host agent. But when the agent is busy it will fail to answer the ping which leads then to a disconnect. With the high ping timeout this could be solved in my case.

Thanks.