Once a game is installed, its card on the Game installs tab becomes its control centre.
The buttons
- Start opens the game server in its window on the server.
- Restart stops it and starts it again. Players are disconnected for a moment.
- Stop closes it. It stays stopped until you start it again.
The label next to the game's name shows whether it's Running or Stopped, and which port it's on.
Restart it automatically if it crashes
With this ticked, the panel watches your game server. If it crashes, meaning its window is still open but the server inside has stopped, it's started again within a minute or so.
To stop a broken server restarting over and over, it gives up after 3 crashes in an hour. The card then says Keeps crashing. Look at the Server log to see why, fix it, and click Start.
Start it automatically when the server starts
Tick this and the game starts by itself whenever Windows starts, for example after updates or a restart. Untick it if you'd rather start it yourself with Start.
Why is it running?
When a game is running, the card tells you how it started, so you're never left wondering:
- Started automatically when the server started
- Restarted automatically after it crashed
- Started from the panel
- Started on the server (someone started it while logged in)
Good to know
- If the card says Nobody is logged in to the server, the game has no desktop to open its window on. Connect once with Remote Desktop and then disconnect. Don't sign out.
- The card also shows how many times the game crashed in the last day.