How To Optimize Your Conan Exiles Server Performance

Here's how to increase stability, boost server FPS and optimize your Conan Exiles server. This guide covers the best management practices you can adopt as a server owner to keep your Conan Exiles server running at peak performance. These optimizations often result in a noticeable improvement.

Daily Restarts

The first thing you'll want to do is create an automatic daily restart schedule. This keeps 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, check out our schedules guide.

Check Resource Usage

If your server is experiencing performance issues, check your resource usage in the GhostCap Panel.

If CPU usage is constantly high (~80% or above), consider restarting your server or upgrading your plan. Check out our upgrade server guide for more details.

Adjusting Your Server Settings

Unlike many games, Conan Exiles gameplay settings are mostly changed in-game rather than in the GhostCap Panel. See our configure your server guide for how to access the in-game server 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 placed across the map, the harder your server has to work.

1. Connect to your server and open the in-game server settings menu as an admin.
2. Under Administration, find the Followers section.
3. Enable Use Minion Population Limit.
4. 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 are the cause of server performance issues. A single poorly optimized mod can slow down your server on its own.

Only run mods you actually need and 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.