Added NETWORKQUALITY to environment and GameUserSettings.ini (default 3)

[ChalyFlavour]

GameUserSettings.ini has an option for mNetworkQuality.
The games default value here is mNetworkQuality=0.
This refers to the ingame option "Network Quality" with the default value "normal".

I have added an environment variable to run.sh with the default value 3.
This equates to the ingame setting "Ultra"

Source
https://help.akliz.net/docs/common-satisfactory-errors

Unfortunately this option is not documented very well. The NetworkQuality setting is defined in Scalability.ini

TotalNetBandwidth=104857600
MaxDynamicBandwidth=104857600
MinDynamicBandwidth=10485760```
The bandwidth setting helps avoiding sync lags with conveyer belts.

[msladek]

Hey ChalyFlavour, thanks for the PR.

We already set NetworkQuality@3 (and beyond) in the image, see #113 for more details. Do you have a use case where you actually need configurable network quality?

[wolveix]

Closing this per @msladek's comment :) Please feel free to re-open if you have a valid use-case @ChalyFlavour

[ChalyFlavour]

Hey ChalyFlavour, thanks for the PR.

We already set NetworkQuality@3 (and beyond) in the image, see #113 for more details. Do you have a use case where you actually need configurable network quality?

Hey Marc, thanks for the hint. As you’ve already guessed, I haven’t seen the #113 before committing a pull request.

I don’t have a use case for a configurable network quality. There shouldn’t be any reason to lower it as long as we have enough bandwidth for Satisfactory.

However, I (me and ppl on the server) had some sync issues with conveyer belts and hyper tubes while CPU wasn’t the reason. So I messed around with game settings. Every time I changed the NetworkQuality to 3, my problems were solved while reverting to default brought back the lag.

@wolveix I’m fine with using my fork, if you don’t want to have the configurable network setting in your image. I just thought, it won’t blow it up too much.

I have trouble adding a technical prove for this one. The average CPU usage on the dedicated server raised with setting 3 and my lags were gone. Some info from the devs would be of help. Maybe some servers code relays on the NetworkQuality setting instead of the bandwidth, dunno.

[wolveix]

Hey @ChalyFlavour, that's certainly interesting to hear!

Your comment just prompted me to investigate this further. I noticed that we actually specify mNetworkQuality=0 in GameUserSettings.ini 🤦‍♂️ So while we increase the bandwidth allocations for quality 3 (per @msladek's comment), we actually drop to quality 0 due to this mistake.

I'll push a fix to your repo, and merge this PR :) Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

[ChalyFlavour]

YAh, darn it, didn’t notice the @3 in [NetworkQuality@3] myself. I was so fixed to the gamesettings that I missed that the Scalability didn’t match it.

Sorry, I’d have mentioned it in my first PR otherwise. The fallback to low quality totally explains the experience I had.

thanks for merging 🖖