Here's how to increase stability, boost server FPS and optimize your Conan Exiles server. This guide highlights some of the best management practices you can adopt as a server owner to ensure your Conan Exiles server runs at peak performance, these optimisations often result in a noticeable improvement.
Daily Restarts
The first thing you'll want to do is create an automatic daily restart schedule; this serves to keep your resource usage under control while ensuring your server has a fresh load once every 24 hours. Daily restarts are especially useful for heavily modded servers.
To create a schedule follow this guide.
Adjusting Your Server Settings
Unlike many games, Conan Exiles server settings are mostly changed in-game rather than in Bropanel. See our configure your server guide for how to access the in-game settings menu, where settings are organized into categories such as Administration and Building.
The settings below have the biggest impact on performance, especially on community servers with high player counts.
Minion and Population Settings
Thralls and pets are one of the largest sources of server load in Conan Exiles. The more followers that are placed across the map, the harder your server has to work.
Under Administration, find the Followers section. Enable Use Minion Population Limit, then lower Thrall and Pet Population Base Value and Thrall and Pet Population Per Player to cap how many followers can exist on your server. Reducing these limits is one of the most effective ways to improve performance on a busy server.
Decay Settings
Abandoned buildings left behind by inactive players add up over time, increasing the number of objects the server has to simulate. Letting building decay clean these up automatically keeps the world tidy and reduces long-term server load.
Under Building, make sure building decay is enabled and consider lowering the decay time so abandoned bases are removed sooner.
Mods
Conan Exiles can be a heavily modded game, and sometimes mods can be the cause of server performance issues. A poorly optimized mod can slow down your server on its own.
Only run mods you actually need and try to keep your list as lean as possible. If you notice performance dropping after adding mods, remove them one at a time to find the culprit.
For help adding and managing mods, see our installing mods guide.
Note
Heavy building and highly active servers will always reach a limitation at some point. Even the fastest gaming hardware, such as a Ryzen 9 9950X, isn't able to run a Conan Exiles server without issue in such cases.