Startup Issue with ARK: Survival Evolved - Errors on startup

[Charlie_Popp]

System Information

Field	Value
Operating System	Windows - Windows 10 Home on x86_64
Product	AMP ‘Phobos’ v2.6.2.6 (Mainline)
Virtualization	None
Application	ARK: Survival Evolved
Module	GenericModule
Running in Container	No
Current State	Stopped

Problem Description

Issue

Fails to install I believe - console output
Redirecting stderr to ‘D:\AMPDatastore\Instances\ARKSurvivalEvolved01\ark-se\logs\stderr.txt’
Logging directory: ‘D:\AMPDatastore\Instances\ARKSurvivalEvolved01\ark-se/logs’
[ 0%] Checking for available updates…
13:43:22
[----] Verifying installation…
Steam Console Client (c) Valve Corporation - version 1751406682
– type ‘quit’ to exit –
Loading Steam API…OK
force_install_dir “376030”
13:43:24
Connecting anonymously to Steam Public…OK
13:43:25
Waiting for client config…OK
Waiting for user info…OK
app_update 376030 -beta ServerBranch validate
ERROR! Failed to set beta ‘ServerBranch’
quit
Unloading Steam API…OK

I have confirmed the dependencies from #1 are installed on my machine too

ARK: Survival Evolved Guide

This article sets out some key basic information for running an ARK: Survival Evolved server on AMP. 1. Dependencies on Windows ASE requires the following dependencies on Windows: DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010) (if the web installer doesn’t work, you can download the files from here and manually install them) Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013 You will also need X86 Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2015-2022 to run SteamCMD in AMP to …

Reproduction Steps

• Clicking update
• clicking start
• Reading output

[Greelan]

That instance is broken, it doesn’t have the AMP settings

Is this a controller/target setup? If so make sure the configuration repositories are up to date on all installations

[Charlie_Popp]

Updating the config repos worked! Thanks so much for the quick reply!